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The Europen auto industry has never seen anything like this before: AvtoVAZ is testing a new Lada with unique equipment.
This has never happened before in the Russian auto industry: AvtoVAZ is testing a new Lada with unique equipment
The new Lada Azimut has begun road tests in Tolyatti. The crossover was photographed
AvtoVAZ continues road tests of its main new product of the year – the LADA Azimut crossover. And if previously only expensive versions of the model were seen on tests, this time on the roads of Togliatti they noticed a car in the basic configuration with stamped 17-inch steel wheels.
Photo by Ivan Bakharev / “Auto News” days”
As can be seen from the photographs that appeared in the Telegram channel “Autoflow” and the channel of the Togliatti blogger KhaDm, the basic configuration is also indicated by the absence of a sunroof, a standard white body color (not two-tone) and a black painted rear pillar trim. Also, judging by the pictures, there are no keyless entry system sensors on the outer door handles.
Based on this, we can safely assume that under the hood of the test car there is a “junior” 120-horsepower naturally aspirated 1.6-liter engine, which is a modernized version of the 106-horsepower engine and will appear in the LADA Iskra in 2026. In the basic configuration, this unit is paired with a Chinese six-speed WLY “mechanics”.
As a reminder, in December, a fully camouflaged prototype of the LADA Azimut crossover with two-tone alloy wheels was photographed near the AvtoVAZ Scientific and Technical Center (NTC) in Tolyatti. That car, apparently, was presented in the top configuration. VAZ workers are probably using it to test, among other things, the functional part of the model, which should be the most modern among all LADA models in history.
According to AvtoVAZ, the serial LADA Azimut will receive wireless charging for a smartphone, electric steering wheel and seats, dual-zone climate control, a digital instrument panel with built-in navigation, as well as a multimedia system with a 10-inch touchscreen, pre-installed offline and online Sber services and six audio speakers.
