LADA in F1

rich1701 · Post 03 Mar 2010, 16:51

Skoda was a joke not too long ago, now it is a respectable brand due to racing but more importantly Volkswagen build quality. Looks like Lada are doing the same with Renault, on road cars as well as racing, good luck to them.

Pandamasque · Post 03 Mar 2010, 17:09

rich1701 wrote:Skoda was a joke not too long ago, now it is a respectable brand due to racing but more importantly Volkswagen build quality. Looks like Lada are doing the same with Renault, on road cars as well as racing, good luck to them.

I don't see that happening in near-ish future. Even if Renault make a properly significant effort to get Lada up to the modern day standards like VW did with Skoda, the difference in the end result will be as vast as in the business culture of Russia and Czech Rep. It would be better to switch to production of old Renaults and Dacias.

PS: and Skoda's 'not too long ago' was almost 20 years ago (owned by VW since 1991)!

Mr Alcatraz · Post 03 Mar 2010, 18:08

Roland Ehnström wrote:Tazio, perhaps you are too young to remeber this "awesome" piece of russian design:
Edit: I see you are 55... perhaps I should have said "perhaps you are too old to remember this

Actually living in my cave here in Southern California I never heard of LADA

Fair play to all that posted becaude it sounds like it makes a Yugo (a POS that was sold here) seem like a Rolls.
At any rate that is funny.

Having RBS on your car when they really took a hit was not.

Renault will still benefit from the sponsorship. They are a team I'm still holding out hope for F1 not losing!

Stretch Lada in Cuba

imightbewrong · Post 04 Mar 2010, 12:53

Who would have thought? Sponsoring Renault (Petrov) now:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81834

raceman · Post 04 Mar 2010, 13:27

Tazio wrote:Stretch Lada in Cuba

WHOA! what the hell?? this is a hell of a stretched car, to the limit

manchild · Post 04 Mar 2010, 14:13

This is funny, since LADA 2101 is USSR built FIAT 124, while Samara has VW Golf based platform and Porsche developed engine. Almost idential situation as with Yugo which ex-Yugoslav car, mechanically identical to FIAT 127 with rejected FIAT UNO design.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_124

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAZ-2101

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_127

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zastava_Koral