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The Lada Kalina is a low cost supermini car
Supermini car

A supermini is a British car classification term that describes automobiles larger than a city car but smaller than a small family car. This car class is also known as the B-segment across Europe, and as Subcompact in North America....
 sold under the Lada
Lada

Lada is the trademark of AvtoVAZ, a Russian car manufacturer in Togliatti, Russia, Samara Oblast. All the manufacturer's vehicles sold nowadays are of the Lada brand but this has not always been so....
 marque and produced by the Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n automaker AvtoVAZ
AvtoVAZ

AvtoVAZ is a Russian automobile manufacturer, also known as VAZ, Volzhsky Automobilny Zavod , and better known to the world as Lada, was set up in the late 1960s in collaboration with Fiat....
. Its mass production began in November 2004, but it became available for purchase almost a year later.

The three models developed are:

There are two gasoline engines, with 81 and 91 hp
Horsepower

Horsepower is the name of several non-International System of Units units of power . It was originally defined to allow the output of steam engines to be measured and compared with the power output of draft horses....
 (60 and 68 kW). The new Kalina will be exported to Western Europe with a price of about € 7000; it will be submitted to EuroNCAP safety tests.






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The Lada Kalina is a low cost supermini car
Supermini car

A supermini is a British car classification term that describes automobiles larger than a city car but smaller than a small family car. This car class is also known as the B-segment across Europe, and as Subcompact in North America....
 sold under the Lada
Lada

Lada is the trademark of AvtoVAZ, a Russian car manufacturer in Togliatti, Russia, Samara Oblast. All the manufacturer's vehicles sold nowadays are of the Lada brand but this has not always been so....
 marque and produced by the Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n automaker AvtoVAZ
AvtoVAZ

AvtoVAZ is a Russian automobile manufacturer, also known as VAZ, Volzhsky Automobilny Zavod , and better known to the world as Lada, was set up in the late 1960s in collaboration with Fiat....
. Its mass production began in November 2004, but it became available for purchase almost a year later.

The three models developed are:
  • Lada 1117 – 5-door station wagon
    Station wagon

    A station wagon in American English, Australian English, Canadian English and New Zealand English usage and an estate car in British English usage, is a passenger automobile with a car body style similar to a sedan but with the roofline following the full, sometimes extended rear cargo area, i.e. ending with a more vertical door...
     (production began in 2007/2008)
  • Lada 1118 – 4-door sedan (full production began in 2005/2006)
  • Lada 1119 – 5-door hatchback
    Hatchback

    Hatchback is a term designating an automobile design, containing a passenger cabin with an integrated cargo space, accessed from behind the vehicle by a single, top-hinged tailgate or large flip-up window....
     (full production began in 2006)


There are two gasoline engines, with 81 and 91 hp
Horsepower

Horsepower is the name of several non-International System of Units units of power . It was originally defined to allow the output of steam engines to be measured and compared with the power output of draft horses....
 (60 and 68 kW). The new Kalina will be exported to Western Europe with a price of about € 7000; it will be submitted to EuroNCAP safety tests. It will have ABS
Anti-lock braking system

An anti-lock braking system, or ABS is a safety system which prevents the wheels on a motor vehicle from locking while brake.A rotating road wheel allows the driver to maintain steering control under heavy braking by preventing a skid and allowing the wheel to continue interacting Traction with the road surface as directed by driver...
, electric power steering
Electric Power Steering

Electric power steering is designed to use an electric motor to reduce effort by providing assist to the Driving of a vehicle. Most EPS systems have variable assist, which allows for more assistance as the speed of a vehicle decreases and less assistance from the system during high-speed situations....
 and rear seats that can be folded so that a horizontal platform is formed. Its name is Kalina in other countries, but in Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
 it will be marketed as Lada 119, because "kalina" means "rattle" in Finnish. It is not sold in certain markets. A sportier version, the Lada Kalina GS Sport, is also produced. Its main competitors are cars like the Dacia Logan
Dacia Logan

The Logan is a car produced jointly by the France manufacturer Renault and its subsidiary Dacia of Romania. It is manufactured at Dacia's automobile plant in Mioveni, Romania, in Colombia, Brazil and many other sites....
 and Hyundai Accent
Hyundai Accent

The Hyundai Accent is a small family car produced by Hyundai Motor Company in South Korea, India, Russia, Turkey, and Iran.The Accent is produced for the People's Republic of China market by Beijing Hyundai Co., a joint venture with Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Corporation....
. Lada's parent company AvtoVAZ
AvtoVAZ

AvtoVAZ is a Russian automobile manufacturer, also known as VAZ, Volzhsky Automobilny Zavod , and better known to the world as Lada, was set up in the late 1960s in collaboration with Fiat....
 has also released a Super 1600 concept car, the Lada Kalina Hatchback Super 1600 which theoretically is a competitor to the Dacia Logan Super 2000 or S2000. It uses the same 1.6 petrol as standard models but it is not naturally aspirated. It uses a turbocharger
Turbocharger

A turbocharger, or turbo, is a gas compressor used for forced induction of an internal combustion engine. Like a supercharger, the purpose of a turbocharger is to increase the mass of air entering the engine to create more power....
 or a supercharger
Supercharger

A supercharger is an air Gas compressor used for forced induction of an internal combustion engine. The greater mass flow-rate provides more oxygen to support combustion than would be available in a naturally-aspirated engine, which allows more fuel to be provided and more work to be done per cycle, increasing the power output of the engine...
. The racing car's power range is ~200-~300 bhp, but the IAA concept had a naturally aspirated 1.6 engine
Engine

An engine is a mechanical device that produces some form of output from a given input.An engine whose purpose is to produce kinetic energy output from a fuel is called a Wiktionary:prime mover; alternatively, a motor is a device which produces kinetic energy from a preprocessed "fuel" ....
 with 120 bhp
Horsepower

Horsepower is the name of several non-International System of Units units of power . It was originally defined to allow the output of steam engines to be measured and compared with the power output of draft horses....
.

Engines


  • 1.4 16V, straight-4
    Straight-4

    The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....
    , 1390 cc,
  • 1.6 8V, straight-4
    Straight-4

    The straight-4 or inline-4 engine is a four cylinder internal combustion engine with all four cylinder mounted in a straight line along the crankcase....
    , 1596 cc,


Name


The name 'Kalina' comes from the Russian name for a type of viburnum
Viburnum opulus

Viburnum opulus is a species of Viburnum, native to Europe and Asia. Some botanists also treat the closely related North American species Viburnum trilobum as a variety of it , or a subspecies, Viburnum opulus subsp....
.

See also

  • AvtoVAZ
    AvtoVAZ

    AvtoVAZ is a Russian automobile manufacturer, also known as VAZ, Volzhsky Automobilny Zavod , and better known to the world as Lada, was set up in the late 1960s in collaboration with Fiat....
  • Automobile model numbering system in USSR and Russia
    Automobile model numbering system in USSR and Russia

    A standardized automobile model numbering system has been used in the USSR and Russia. Using the modern version of the system it is possible to determine a vehicle's type and engine capacity....
  • Lada
    Lada

    Lada is the trademark of AvtoVAZ, a Russian car manufacturer in Togliatti, Russia, Samara Oblast. All the manufacturer's vehicles sold nowadays are of the Lada brand but this has not always been so....


External links

  • - VAZ official website
  • - Official Kalina website
  • - Official Lada Kalina Club
  • - Ukrainian community of Lada Kalina drivers