Russian used car VAZ 2101

The prototype of the basic model VAZ-2101 was presented April 2, 1966,and subsequently received the title "Car of the Year", FIAT-124.Incidentally, an interesting fact - in the FIAT-124 handles werespeakers. At the VAZ-2101, they were already of a different design -recessed in the door. Somehow we called "fiatovskimi, although theyfirst appeared on Zhigulis, and then and FIATA.
In April 1971 "kopek" first appeared on the world market. From acommercial point of view, the trade name "Lada" was bad - for a numberof foreign languages, it was, to put it mildly dissonant: for example,the name "Lada" was consonant with the Arabic "Dzhigul" - a thief ...

The production car VAZ-2101 was issued to the Volga automobile plant since 1971.