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VAZ-2101
Sign in to saveThe VAZ-2101 "Zhiguli", commonly nicknamed "Kopeyka" (for the smallest Soviet coin, 1/100 of the Russian ruble), is a compact 4-door sedan or wagon, called small class, passenger car, model 1 in Soviet classification, and produced by the Soviet manufacturer AvtoVAZ, introduced in 1970 as the company's first product.
Key facts
- Automobile.image
- 1980 - VAZ 2101.JPG
- Automobile.name
- VAZ-2101
- Automobile.manufacturer
- VAZ, now AvtoVAZ
- Automobile.assembly
- Soviet Union: Togliatti, Samara Oblast
- Automobile.production
- 1970–1988
- Automobile.successor
- VAZ-2105VAZ-2104
- Automobile.class
- Compact car
- Automobile.layout
- Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive
- Automobile.transmission
- 4-speed Manual3-speed Automatic
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- car model
- Series
- Zhiguli
- Followed by
- Lada Riva
- Mass
- 970
- Manufacturer
- AvtoVAZ
- Image
- VAZ 2101 BW 2016-09-03 13-51-58.jpg
- Height
- 1382
- Width
- 1611
- Length
- 4073
- Brand
- Zhiguli
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- Commons category
- VAZ-2101
- powered by
- gasoline engine
- wheelbase
- 2424
- modified version of
- Fiat 124
- location of creation
- Tolyatti
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Development
- History
- Models
- VAZ-2101
- VAZ-2102
- VAZ-2103
- Technical specifications
- Gallery
- See also
- References
The VAZ-2101 "Zhiguli", commonly nicknamed "Kopeyka" (for the smallest Soviet coin, 1/100 of the Russian ruble), is a compact 4-door sedan or wagon, called small class, passenger car, model 1 in Soviet classification, and produced by the Soviet manufacturer AvtoVAZ, introduced in 1970 as the company's first product.
The car is a licence-built version of the Fiat 124, that was heavily modified and tailored for the rough climate and road conditions across the Soviet Union and much of the Eastern Bloc countries. Subsequently, it was widely, and successfully exported to the West under the Lada brand, for over two decades. The station wagon version (correspondingly based on the Fiat 124 Familiare) was known as the VAZ-2102.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “VAZ-2101” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.