Lada Vesta
The Lada Vesta is a subcompact car produced by the Russian car company AvtoVAZ since 2015. It was presented in August 2014 during the Moscow International Automobile Salon and went into mass production on 25 September 2015 in Izhevsk.
| Lada Vesta | |
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| Overview | |
| Manufacturer | Lada (AvtoVAZ) |
| Also called | Lada Aura (LWB version) |
| Production | 2015–present |
| Assembly | Russia: Izhevsk (Lada Izhevsk) |
| Body and chassis | |
| Class | Subcompact car (B) |
| Body style | 4-door saloon 5-door estate |
| Layout | Front-engine, front-wheel-drive |
| Platform | Lada B/C |
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| Dimensions | |
| Wheelbase | 2,635 mm (103.7 in) |
| Length | 4,410 mm (173.6 in) |
| Width | 1,764 mm (69.4 in) |
| Height | 1,497 mm (58.9 in) |
| Curb weight | 1,230–1,270 kg (2,711.7–2,799.9 lb) |
| Chronology | |
| Predecessor | Lada Priora (export market) |
Bo Andersson, President and CEO of AvtoVAZ, was responsible for improving overall operations and quality at AvtoVAZ, enabling the Lada Vesta – AvtoVAZ' first completely new platform in several years – to launch on-time and with the highest crash safety rating in its class.
Within days after the Lada Vesta went on sale in November, it became one of the best-selling cars in the Russian market. In 2018, Lada Vesta became the Best Selling Car in Russia.
Lada introduced a station wagon and a "Cross" version of the station wagon, with higher ground clearance, in September 2017. A "Cross" version of the sedan, with more ground clearance than a Toyota RAV4, arrived in the first half of 2018.
In September 2022, the president of Lada, Maxim Sokolov, announced the creation of two new Lada models, one of them to be a crossover on the Vesta built on the Lada B/C platform of Renault conception, and the other a separate Lada family of B-segment cars "on a global platform". The new Vesta would be the first new model to be launched after the transition of Vesta production from Izhevsk to Togliatti.