LADA Priora

The LADA Priora is a 4-door saloon / 3-door hatchback / 5-door hatchback / 5-door estate from Lada, built from 2007 to 2015, in the decade of stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids. Under the bonnet: 1.6&nbsp.

How it came about

The Lada Priora is a compact car produced by the Russian automaker AvtoVAZ from March 2007 to July 2018. It is largely a restyled and modernised Lada 110 which it replaced in 2009. By May 16, 2012, 590,000 Prioras had been produced. In 2014, the Prioras replacement the Lada Vesta was unveiled during the Moscow International Automobile Salon and in September 2015, the Lada Vesta started production.

Starting in 2016, the Priora was withdrawn from the foreign market and was unavailable for export whilst continuing to be produced in Russia. On July 16, 2018 a photo appeared online of the last Lada Priora to be produced in the AvtoVAZ Tolyatti plant, decorated with colored balloons and covered with a poster with the inscription "Последний!" ("Last!"). The photo was taken between July 11 and July 13 (based on the poster in the photo). The last of the remaining Prioras were assembled using previously welded bodies. On July 17, 2018, AutoVAZ confirmed the discontinuation of the Priora production in an official release.

The hardware

Power comes from 1.6  other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1088 kg. It shifts through a 5-speed manual / 5-speed automated manual. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2492 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.

Family and rivals

Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Lada 110; its successor was the Lada Vesta; assembly was at Tolyatti. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Volkswagen Tiguan, the Nissan GT-R, the Hyundai i30 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Lada stablemates include the LADA Granta and the LADA Kalina.