VAZ 2108 - elegance and convenience

2024 Author: Erin Ralphs | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-19 11:42

VAZ 2108 is the first car created in the USSR, which has front wheels instead of rear wheels (like the classic VAZ family and the rest of the USSR car fleet). By Western standards, it is difficult to call today's VAZ models modern, even if it is PRIORA, but at the time of its debut, the VAZ 2108 shark was absolutely modern compared to its classmates, such as: Ford Eskort, Golf and the entire golf class of those years.

Eight can be called an attractive car, remember classmates of those years, the car is not the smallest in the class, so it is superior in length, for example - Fiat UNO. VAZ 2108 has excellent characteristics. The car turned out to be very light, only 900 kg, so the engine of 1499 cubic centimeters is easily able to pull the car in city traffic, and a weaker engine of 1300 cubes was also installed. And today, a well-groomed eight can be called a high-speed car: a five-speed gearbox, low weight, clear steering distinguish it from the "Classic". But you can't call it a family car

8, the trunk is only 270 liters, the rear seats are not too spacious, and three adultsthe back will be really cramped. A significant difference from the classic family can be seen in the location of the engine, it is located transversely, and not longitudinally, as was done earlier at the VAZ. By the way, to this day, the VAZ completes the engine compartment in this way.

The VAZ 2108 car is quite economical and, when driving on the highway, in fifth

transmission can meet 6 liters per 100 kilometers. In the nineties, every guy dreamed of such a car, it was then that she was nicknamed "chisel". The figure eight received such a nickname due to its angular body. Years of driving and owning a car have shown its strengths and weaknesses, the factory black plastic bumpers are made of high quality and will not crack with a slight impact, with an impact of the same force, the bumper of a dozen or a modernized eight will shatter, so decide whether it is worth sacrificing strength for the sake of beauty. Gear shifts are fairly short and gears shift easily.

The unpleasant moment is that the forward and reverse gears are very close and there were cases when a car does not go forward at a traffic light, but backwards - this is not a bike or a legend at all - this happened in everyday life with various motorists. The advantage of the front-wheel drive VAZ 2108 is best manifested in winter, a car with a front-wheel drive is much easier to move on slippery, packed ice than a rear-wheel drive car without all sorts of electronic assistance systems. Landing on a car is almost the same as on foreign cars, with legs stretched forward, thismay appeal to those who have traveled on the classics for a long time. Today, the figure eight is best suited to a young man who is interested in and at the same time loves cars, who is ready to bring this elderly technology back to life. Then the VAZ 2108 will please him with good behavior on the road and a sense of freedom. This car is simply designed for comfortable trips. After purchasing it, there will be enough savings for high-quality tuning.