Lada Tarzan

[vulgalour]

More info welcome.  I don't know if it's a Lada in-house creation or something like Peugeot did with Dangel.  There's enough pictures of them out there to the same design for me to think these are an official thing and not a home brew.

 

Lada Tarzan is a marriage of Niva and Samara.

 

 

Lada Tarzan 2 uses the newer Lada 110 in estate and hatchback.  Potentially still Niva underneath, I'm not entirely sure.

 

[warren t claim]

Although I'm practically retarded and my opinions should count for the square root of fuck all am I right in thinking that in Eastern Europe they don't see their domestically produced cars as aspirational and would rather have a cut and shut X3?

[vulgalour]

Seems to depend who you listen to.  Eastern European workers I've worked with have always expressed great fondness for domestic products but those looking to appear upwardly mobile seem to look on them as deathtraps to be avoided at all costs, even if that cost is owning a cut-and-shut X3.

[Asimo]

The cars above don't have a Niva's rear live axle, looks like it could be Niva front suspension at the back also.

Probably something like a Samara body on top of a unique seperate chassis using Niva running gear.

[Felly Magic]

I suspect Dacia underneath due to Renault owning a big precentage of Lada

[fordperv]

Holy shit they are beautiful

[nebuchenezer]

Holy shit they are beautiful

I beg to differ sir

[D Spares & Tyres]

I suspect Dacia underneath due to Renault owning a big precentage of Lada

Nope, I definitely spy Niva front suspension

[fordperv]

I beg to differ sir

Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder

 

I especially like the Samara type

 

Ive just been googling and ooooffff just look at the van variant

 

[ruffgeezer]

Wow, they look splendidly crap!

[somewhatfoolish]

That looks incredibly shonky; WIN! Who's buying one then?

[andy18s]

Delivery service possible (lol)

[dave21478]

Not so keen on the towel rail/nudge bar, but I like them.

[TataBobu]

No Dacia there, they apear to be properly factory build by the russian wiki pages: Lada Tarzan and Lada Tarzan 2

[scdan4]

Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder

I especially like the Samara type

Ive just been googling and ooooffff just look at the van variant

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They started designing that with the door which they already had.

 

I’m not quite sure they finished...

[Timewaster]

That Tarzan 2 with the roof rails looks like some sort of early Freelander prototype.

[UltraWomble]

Just imagine if Lada knew about Autoshite.... A whole captive market right here for the Tarzan.

[Tamworthbay]

First one is the best.

[pandamonium]

I think I'm in love...

[3VOM]

Are these April 1st Photoshops?

[Ghosty]

Reminds me of the Dragon Jump! :

 

 

 

 

which was made of bits of UAZ and the like.

 

http://www.rcom.ru/dragon-motor/

[brownnova]

Wow... the Samara one especially floats my boat...

[chaseracer]

Reminds me of the Dragon Jump... which was made of bits of UAZ and the like.

 

http://www.rcom.ru/dragon-motor/

 

And the middle section of a TR7...

[Sigmund Fraud]

Got to love the OEM bodgery... It seems to be a largely unmodified Samara shell welded onto a Niva floorpan - don't forget the Niva is a unibody construction.

 

See those strut towers :

 

 

Well, there doesn't seem to be a strut in them, just a plastic cap ! Brilliant !

[Sigmund Fraud]

Actually, I was RONG, they don't sit on a Niva floorpan. Instead, they seem to have a rudimentary chassis holding the Niva running gear together :

 

 

WOULD !

[Felly Magic]

Blimey that is a right old lash up

[They_all_do_that_sir]

That chassis doesn't look particularly strong..... Is it a sort of half ladder chassis half monocoque lash up then?

 

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[Sigmund Fraud]

It seems so, most of the torsional rigidity comes from the Samara bodyshell.

 

Bonkers, but not as bonkers as this version of the Samara :

 

 

If you want to know what the underpinnings are, take a closer look at those wheels...

[vulgalour]

I don't recognise those wheels.  They almost look like they came off a Jag?

[Sigmund Fraud]

I don't recognise those wheels.  They almost look like they came off a Jag?

 

 

Though the actual engine and transmission in those Samara T3s come from this :