Click to enlarge
On Monday we presented this week’s shifter and asked you to identify the make and model of the vehicle from whence it came. This week’s shifter left many of you scratching your heads, and no one was able to determine the car it belongs to. Worry not, Backfires members, because this week’s shifter was a tough one. The shifter is from a 1989 Lada Samara, a Russian-made hatchback.
The Lada Samara was never imported into America, but Canada opened its borders to the Communist-built hatch, so we traveled north to test it. Powered by a 1.5-liter four-cylinder engine making 74 hp, the Lada waddled to 60 mph from a standstill in 13.8 seconds before topping out at 89 mph. As to the Samara’s refinement, we stated that the Lada seemed “at least two full design cycles behind the best of the East and West.”
No comments:
Post a Comment