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02 Jul 2021 11:02 #236290 by facade
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This popped up on my youtube feed.



Quite funny when he drives into a puddle and hydraulics the engine- I'm sure that didn't hurt it Supposedly it got a unimog stuck, which I doubt somehow....

£16,995 OTR, seems a lot though for a car with the steering wheel on the wrong side.

I want a poverty spec. one in cammo ;)

The headline price is £11,995, if you can avoid the VAT, and only use it off road on private property so it never gets registered :)

Otherwise it is £11,995 + VAT = £14394, plus £55 to register it, plus £2245 for the first tax payment (it only does 12.1 litres/100km, which is about 280g/km) plus £504 for the warranty, which totals £17,198 if you want to drive it on a road.


Back in 1993 I tried to buy a new one, but it was like Dacia, they only sell what they can get, which wasn't the red poverty spec I wanted, but was the tarted up white one with alloys, Halfords driving lamps and some stickers on the sides, (rather like a pig with lipstick) for about 25% more, so I went to buy a Vitara, and ended up with a diesel terrano. (Wish I still had it mind...)
 

If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there :)

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02 Jul 2021 15:31 #236300 by Lambert
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I saw this too. I quite like them and agree with needing the poverty one. My only concern would be repair parts availability, it's OK getting service parts over the Internet in a couple of days as you can plan it but it being off the road if something broken needs replacing, not so much.

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02 Jul 2021 21:01 - 02 Jul 2021 21:02 #236321 by HUN
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Noooooooo!! Don't do that!
I hope you're just kidding. Unfortunately I used to drive those things for months. Avoid them!

Pros:
Very good off-road, especially in mud
Low range transfer box with central locking
Very cheap parts
You can fix it with a duct tape and WD40

Cons:
Poor driving experience on road
Unreliable
Poor quality materials used everywhere
Assebled with no quality control in mind

Think twice before you waste your money!

TrailMaster 2" lift kit
Full floating rear axle conversion, JB underbody guards & recovery points
ORE transfer box HD brackets
T-Max split charge system
X-Shock Dakar ceramic clutch kit & roof rack
Flo-Flex castor polybushes
Kumho KL71 tyres
AVM manual hubs
ORA radius arm guards
Push-fit breathers
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03 Jul 2021 06:27 #236327 by facade
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I wouldn't buy one @ £17k. Maybe if I win the quadruple roll-over tonight ;)

Certainly I wouldn't swap the Jimny for one.

If I was buying Russian, I'd really go for a UAZ.

If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there :)

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03 Jul 2021 22:09 #236366 by DrRobin
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Back in the 1980s I saw a Lada 4x4 come up a steep road in Dolby forest, North Yorkshire in heavy snow, there weren’t any other car tracks, just ski and sledge tracks, it had four people crammed in it and never slipped the whole way up, just drove up like it was any normal Sunday drive.

I was very impressed, more so as we never saw any other vehicle either up or down. We didn’t even chance it on trail bikes.

There aren’t many left now, a lot went back abroad when Lada pulled out of the UK.

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04 Jul 2021 09:25 #236380 by lightning
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No worse than buying an old Defender, surely.

Probably cheaper as well, Defender prices are on a roll at the moment, like the Gen 4 Jimny.

Residuals won't match the Defender in the long run though.
Or will they?

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04 Jul 2021 10:41 #236384 by RainerK
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But the Ladas do have a middle differential with locking so they are permanent 4x4. I would love to have this type of gearbox in my Jimny.

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04 Jul 2021 11:19 #236385 by Dan
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When I was a teen a friend had a lada samara 'flyte' edition.

It had the lot. Bodykit, alloys. 1.5L roudy exhaust.

I wanted that car.

However as I got older I've become more discerning and the jimny will do me fine.

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04 Jul 2021 11:26 #236386 by lightning
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l have to say, that for the £17,000 that Lada costs, you could get a very nice Defender SWB TD5

The Land Rover may require more day to day maintenance and "love" but it will be a better investment financially.

Unless you live in a city with a "clean air zone" where the old diesel engine will fall foul of the regulations.

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04 Jul 2021 12:00 #236387 by facade
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When I was a teen a friend had a lada samara 'flyte' edition.

It had the lot. Bodykit, alloys. 1.5L roudy exhaust.

I wanted that car.

However as I got older I've become more discerning and the jimny will do me fine.
 
Somehow that jogged my memory, the tarted up white 90s Niva was called a Cossack.



 

If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there :)

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04 Jul 2021 12:10 #236388 by Dan
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I seem to recall the niva cossack had different colour bumpers from the standard spec.

I don't think I ever saw one in the wild though.

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05 Jul 2021 18:01 #236431 by Grima
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Left hand drive only. So no thanks.

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