The Lada Nadezhda is a 5-door minivan from Lada, built from 1998 to 2006, when airbags, anti-lock brakes and Japanese build quality became the world standard. Under the bonnet: 1.7 .
How it came about
The Lada Nadezhda or VAZ-2120 "Nadezhda" (Ru:Лада Надежда, "Hope"; also a Slavic female name) is a seven-person four-wheel-drive minivan, produced by the Russian automaker AvtoVAZ between 1998 and 2006.
The hardware
Power comes from 1.7 . It weighs 1400 kg. It shifts through a 5-speed manual. The layout matters: drive goes to all four wheels, which is what lets the power be used on a wet road. The wheelbase is 2700 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at Tolyatti, Russia. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Chevrolet Silverado, the Saab Automobile Saab 9-3, the Cadillac Escalade — show what else the money bought that year. Its Lada stablemates include the LADA Granta and the LADA Kalina.