AvtoVAZ Car Models List

AvtoVAZ is an automobile manufacturer from Russia. They are popularly known as VAZ: Volzhsky Avtomobilny Zavod in their home country but known as Lada worldwide. Currently, the name of their company is AvtoVAZ. They are represented by their trademark – a silver Volga boat embossed in a red background inside a pentagonal emblem.

The majority of the company is owned by Alliance Rostec Auto BV – which is owned by the Renault-Nissan Alliance and Rostec, a Russian company. AvtoVAZ targets to manufacture almost a million cars per year of their whole lineup.

Their lineup, moreover, includes the Kalina family with hatchback, crossover, and wagon models, the Lada Granta family with liftback and sedan models, the Lada Priora family with wagon, coupe, hatchback, and sedan models, the Lada 4×4 which is formerly known as Niva, and the Lada Largus.

They also produce units of models design by the Renault-Nissan alliance including the Datsun mi-Do, Nissan Almera New, Renault Logan II, and the Renault Sandero II.

Due to their huge quota each year, VAZ owns the biggest factory in Russia and Eastern Europe and even one of the largest in the world. They have over 140 kilometers of production lines which are all customized and built to creating their models.

AvtoVAZ was founded in the 1960s with constant partnership with Fiat, another automobile giant. Viktor Polyakov and Vladimir Solovyov were the founders of the company. Their initial intention is to build cars that are both economical and efficient as well.

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Production started in 1971 with a target quota of 220,000 units. Their first model, the VAZ-2101s was first designed and built in 1970. AvtoVAZ cars were a hit to the Russian crowd since they designed their models to stand the hostile Siberian weather. In two years’ time, AvtoVAZ’ quota tripled to 660,000 per year.