Today there are not so many left, even only those who remember these cars well. But at the factory they really had high hopes for a seven-seater four-wheel drive minivan. That’s why he got the name: VAZ-2120 Nadezhda.
In his large material about this car, Sergey Kanunnikov, an expert on motoring, tells in detail how Nadezhda was designed, what it turned out to be in mass production, and why it did not come to market in the end.
And we, in anticipation of this article, invite you to look at the photos of the first models of the minibus – then still nameless, which had a different digital index and is not at all like what happened in the end.
When designing a seven-seater car, the designers increased the base of the Niva to 500 mm, bringing it to 2700 mm, and in appearance they clearly looked back to the then very popular Renault Espace and Chrysler Voyager. But each of the three layouts created in 1989-1991 was simpler and, so to speak, closer to reality than the last…
Read all the details about the difficult path of the VAZ-2120 minibus in our article “What was Hope for: why the big all-wheel drive Lada failed.”
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