Not a Lada

What's that car???

Quick, is that a Lada? We recently found an article by a fellow non-Ukrainian living in Ukraine, entitled 50 ways to tell if you've been living in Ukraine too long, or something like that, on the internet.

When we were driving back from Crimea Garry suggested a new one- being able to tell what kind of old Soviet car you are passing on the highway. He can normally spot the non- Ladas, the similar-looking Mosvee (Moskovitch) and  the Combi, and the Zaz which was made in the city of Zaporosia.

We found an original model Zaz parked on the street in Crimea. It had only a driver's seat in the front now, but was still being driven. It looks just like the yellow one that is on a post outside the factory in Zaporosia.

This car says it is a Daewoo-Zaz, must have been made around the takeover?

Shiny new cars outside the Zaz plant, they are labelled Daewoos now.

Dratted car registration stickers get in the way!

Is that Italian saying Lada guaranteed quality?

A Moskovitch Combi (rather like the Lada Niva) 

Sometimes it is easy, to tell but some brands models were made to look like the others. The tiny tail lights can be problematic, often at night they don't look red, but white on some cars, so you wonder which way the car is coming down the road! Since they don't always work, some drivers add reflectors to the back of the car for those times to make them more visible, in the bad photo of the blue car above you can see some.