An extreme version of the LADA Niva Sport Turbo was presented at the Silk Road Festival in Luzhniki. The car is being prepared for the 2026 Russian Rally-Raid Championship and has already undergone serious combat testing on the tracks.
🚗 Premiere in Luzhniki: betting on the rally
On June 7 in Moscow at the Silk Way International Rally Festival, the LADA Sport Rosneft team showed a new racing SUV – LADA Niva Sport Turbo.
In the 2026 season, two of these cars will take part in the Russian Rally-Raid Championship.
🏁 Who will be behind the wheel
This year’s team included:
- winners of the “Silk Way 2024” Dmitry Voronov and Kirill Enikeev
- bronze medalists of the first stage of the Russian Championship-2026 Mikhail Mityaev and Egor Okhotnikov
- 1.6-liter turbo engine – 280 hp
- sequential gearbox
- completely new racing suspension
- reinforced braking system
- modified all-wheel drive
- 122 hp (naturally aspirated 1.6)
- 0–100 km/h in 11.8 sec
- maximum speed — 162 km/h
- disc brakes all round
- sport shock absorbers
- clearance increased to 220 mm
- price — from 1,734,000 ₽
⚙️ What’s hidden under the hood
Racing version LADA Niva Sport Turbo is an almost completely redesigned SUV:
🧪Already tested in real races
The prototype of this version debuted at last year’s “Silk Way”, and this season it successfully completed 1000 km of the Astrakhan Baja “Gold of Kagan” – one of the toughest stages of Russian rally raids.
🆚 Civilian vs racing Niva
Compared to the rally version, the regular LADA Niva Sport looks much calmer:
🧭 Result
Niva Sport Turbo is no longer about the city and weekend off-roading. This is a full-fledged rally prototype, created for racing at the limits of the capabilities of equipment and pilots.
