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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: STEMO on 09 December 2021, 19:03:19
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The Renault Zoe is only the third car in 25 years of testing to get zero stars on Euro NCAP. The others were fiats, panda and punto (older models). Despite this, Renault have decided that every one of it's courtesy cars from dealers in this country will be a.......Zoe.
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-10284009/Renault-Zoe-scores-ZERO-star-rating-Euro-NCAP-crash-tests.html
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I guess it's one way of getting rid of them. :-\
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Getting rid of what? The Zoes or the customers who they lend them to? :D :D :D
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Getting rid of what? The Zoes or the customers who they lend them to? :D :D :D
Will certainly help with the bad Customer Service scores, can’t complain if you are dead
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Back in the day a mate of mine owned a Moskvitch.
It was evil...... :)
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Back in the day a mate of mine owned a Moskvitch.
It was evil...... :)
I had a Lada. It was.....different ::)
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Back in the day a mate of mine owned a Moskvitch.
It was evil...... :)
I had a Lada. It was.....different ::)
The Lada was the car the Moskvich could have evolved into given another 20 or 30 years of development. :D
It was dreadful. ::)
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I had a test drive in a Lads Niva & a FSO Polonez back in the seventies/ eighties , luckily I had enough sense not to purchase either of them, even the salesman had to admit that the Ladas brakes were virtually non existent terrible for a brand new car finished up buying a year old LWB Nissan Patrol.
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I had a test drive in a Lads Niva & a FSO Polonez back in the seventies/ eighties , luckily I had enough sense not to purchase either of them, even the salesman had to admit that the Ladas brakes were virtually non existent terrible for a brand new car finished up buying a year old LWB Nissan Patrol.
The commies produced some crap back in the day.
2 stroke Wartburg Knight anyone? ::) ::) ::)
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I had a test drive in a Lads Niva & a FSO Polonez back in the seventies/ eighties , luckily I had enough sense not to purchase either of them, even the salesman had to admit that the Ladas brakes were virtually non existent terrible for a brand new car finished up buying a year old LWB Nissan Patrol.
The commies produced some crap back in the day.
2 stroke Wartburg Knight anyone? ::) ::) ::)
Guy Martin is 'racing' a Trabant next week! ;D
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Didn't they say the Niva was a reasonably capable 4x4? :-\
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Didn't they say the Niva was a reasonably capable 4x4? :-\
Folk on here are just too picky, Andy ;D
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Didn't they say the Niva was a reasonably capable 4x4? :-\
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Sales talk perhaps believe me it was absolutely awful, I believe that they are still being made & available over here wouldn't consider one myself.
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Back in the day a mate of mine owned a Moskvitch.
It was evil...... :)
My Dad had a yellow Moskvitch for a while, it was built like a tank and I expect it handled like one as well! ;D
Didn't they say the Niva was a reasonably capable 4x4? :-\
Yes I think you're right Andy. :y
The Lada Niva has a reputation of being good off road, apparently is hard to break and has quite a following I believe. :)
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Back in the day a mate of mine owned a Moskvitch.
It was evil...... :)
My Dad had a yellow Moskvitch for a while, it was built like a tank and I expect it handled like one as well! ;D
Didn't they say the Niva was a reasonably capable 4x4? :-\
Yes I think you're right Andy. :y
The Lada Niva has a reputation of being good off road, apparently is hard to break and has quite a following I believe. :)
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The one I test drove was an " exclusive" edition called a Cossack had bull bars and bigger wheels etc the salesman said that his 1600e Cortina was a much better car to drive than one of these, can't imagine he lasted long there.
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I seem to remember a niva being on top gear. Obviously, they tried to break it, can't recall if they did or not :-\
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Didn't they say the Niva was a reasonably capable 4x4? :-\
Still available new as well...
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Back in the day a mate of mine owned a Moskvitch.
It was evil...... :)
My Dad had a yellow Moskvitch for a while, it was built like a tank and I expect it handled like one as well! ;D
Didn't they say the Niva was a reasonably capable 4x4? :-\
Yes I think you're right Andy. :y
The Lada Niva has a reputation of being good off road, apparently is hard to break and has quite a following I believe. :)
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The one I test drove was an " exclusive" edition called a Cossack had bull bars and bigger wheels etc the salesman said that his 1600e Cortina was a much better car to drive than one of these, can't imagine he lasted long there.
He was probably right though, as I'd imagine that even a modern Lada Niva is a bit like driving a 1970's Series III Land Rover! ;D
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Back in the day a mate of mine owned a Moskvitch.
It was evil...... :)
My Dad had a yellow Moskvitch for a while, it was built like a tank and I expect it handled like one as well! ;D
Didn't they say the Niva was a reasonably capable 4x4? :-\
Yes I think you're right Andy. :y
The Lada Niva has a reputation of being good off road, apparently is hard to break and has quite a following I believe. :)
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The one I test drove was an " exclusive" edition called a Cossack had bull bars and bigger wheels etc the salesman said that his 1600e Cortina was a much better car to drive than one of these, can't imagine he lasted long there.
He was probably right though, as I'd imagine that even a modern Lada Niva is a bit like driving a 1970's Series III Land Rover! ;D
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I test drove it in Purley near Croydon ,I came down one steep hill and started to brake & really didn't think I was going to stop, was glad to get back in my Granada Ghia 3.0 that really was a proper car.
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Back in the day a mate of mine owned a Moskvitch.
It was evil...... :)
My Dad had a yellow Moskvitch for a while, it was built like a tank and I expect it handled like one as well! ;D
Didn't they say the Niva was a reasonably capable 4x4? :-\
Yes I think you're right Andy. :y
The Lada Niva has a reputation of being good off road, apparently is hard to break and has quite a following I believe. :)
Yellow Moskvitch and a yellow Marina....Hmmm. ::) ::)
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Back in the day a mate of mine owned a Moskvitch.
It was evil...... :)
My Dad had a yellow Moskvitch for a while, it was built like a tank and I expect it handled like one as well! ;D
Didn't they say the Niva was a reasonably capable 4x4? :-\
Yes I think you're right Andy. :y
The Lada Niva has a reputation of being good off road, apparently is hard to break and has quite a following I believe. :)
Yellow Moskvitch and a yellow Marina....Hmmm. ::) ::)
BL mustard Morris Marina 1800TC Coupe........ With a thick hand painted black gloss go faster stripe down the bonnet! :y
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I had a test drive in a Lads Niva & a FSO Polonez back in the seventies/ eighties , luckily I had enough sense not to purchase either of them, even the salesman had to admit that the Ladas brakes were virtually non existent terrible for a brand new car finished up buying a year old LWB Nissan Patrol.
The commies produced some crap back in the day.
2 stroke Wartburg Knight anyone? ::) ::) ::)
A school mate of mine had one of them as his first car. It sounded (and drove) like it had a steam engine under the bonnet. ;D
The trail of blue smoke behind it was a dead giveaway, though.
Hours of fun was had bump starting it in reverse and marvelling at the 4 reverse gears and one forward. :D
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Mate had a Moskvich van back in the '70's,had a running issue with it which I cured by cleaning the jets in the carburettor out.He then lent me it for a week to take family away on holiday not the most inspiring thing to drive but it did ok.I had a Wartburg estate for a year three cylinder two stroke with a separate coil/plug lead for each cylinder and a freewheel device fitted,loved annoying following motorists[and pedestrians probably]by leaving a thick blue haze of exhaust smoke behind me :D
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Now you know you are old when you have worked on all these !!
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I had a test drive in a Lads Niva & a FSO Polonez back in the seventies/ eighties , luckily I had enough sense not to purchase either of them, even the salesman had to admit that the Ladas brakes were virtually non existent terrible for a brand new car finished up buying a year old LWB Nissan Patrol.
The commies produced some crap back in the day.
2 stroke Wartburg Knight anyone? ::) ::) ::)
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They certainly did, the only reason I was looking at these cheap & nasty pieces of shite was with two young kids I wanted something reasonably new & cheap, decided that the better option was to hammer the overtime & keep a decent properly constructed vehicle.
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I had a test drive in a Lads Niva & a FSO Polonez back in the seventies/ eighties , luckily I had enough sense not to purchase either of them, even the salesman had to admit that the Ladas brakes were virtually non existent terrible for a brand new car finished up buying a year old LWB Nissan Patrol.
The commies produced some crap back in the day.
2 stroke Wartburg Knight anyone? ::) ::) ::)
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They certainly did, the only reason I was looking at these cheap & nasty pieces of shite was with two young kids I wanted something reasonably new & cheap, decided that the better option was to hammer the overtime & keep a decent properly constructed vehicle.
I think it was the Trabant that had wings made of cardboard? ??? ;D
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I had a test drive in a Lads Niva & a FSO Polonez back in the seventies/ eighties , luckily I had enough sense not to purchase either of them, even the salesman had to admit that the Ladas brakes were virtually non existent terrible for a brand new car finished up buying a year old LWB Nissan Patrol.
The commies produced some crap back in the day.
2 stroke Wartburg Knight anyone? ::) ::) ::)
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They certainly did, the only reason I was looking at these cheap & nasty pieces of shite was with two young kids I wanted something reasonably new & cheap, decided that the better option was to hammer the overtime & keep a decent properly constructed vehicle.
My aunt bought two Lada Rivas; the first was to replace the Viva Grandad gave her when her retired and quit driving.
A little while later, she didn't expect my mother to stop for a changing traffic light and hit the back of the similarly new Avenger. Both cars were recovered back to Chatham from Greenwich. That was Saturday lunchtime. Our local garage ordered a new radiator and the broken grille that had punctured it was epoxied back together. Driving by mid-afternoon Tuesday. We got the Avenger back nearly two months later after it had two new quarter panels and a boot floor.
The second one needed a new carburettor after it warped on a trip to the south of France to visit other family. She nursed it back home to Plymouth via Calais, and bought a genuine Weber replacement carb. Which improved drivability, power and fuel economy and paid for itself very quickly.
Both cars had the most uncomfortable seats, which were like sitting on a plank. Apparently the steering was a lot heavier than the Vivas was ;D
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The most uncomfortable car I've ever driven was my father in laws G reg Vauxhall Nova , he bought it knew & I swear that the steering wheel served a dual purpose as it prevented you slipping out of the drivers seat ..😅
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There is a Lada Riva on Top Gear at the moment.
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There is a Lada Riva on Top Gear at the moment.
And a Niva.
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Yeah something like that. :y ;D
Th programme was complete shite though. Why wont they just let it die with a bit of dignity ? ::)
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Yeah something like that. :y ;D
Th programme was complete shite though. Why wont they just let it die with a bit of dignity ? ::)
It was dire. Anything to do with cars has been dire today.