Lada Niva Sport, Shiny New Model That Shows Rust Before It Reaches the Stand

Russian officials promised a genuinely new Niva and they did deliver one. Fresh from the factory, rolled straight into the exhibition hall, presented as a proud symbol of domestic engineering. The only issue was the pool of oil under the car and the brown patches staring back from every angle. This so called sporty marvel costs 1.7 million roubles (about 21 thousand euros) yet its bolts looked as if they had spent a decade moored on the banks of the Volga.