About Fiat.............
Rani started the thread on Lada cars, and I read a bit on the internet, as well as the much hated Yugo.
WHERE DOES FIAT get all the money to buy up everybody else??
And backed by the ..........FRENCH??
Lada - Wikipedia
Lada (
Cyrillic: Лада, recently stylized as
LADA) is a brand of
cars manufactured by
AvtoVAZ (originally VAZ), a Russian company owned by the French
Groupe Renault.
[1] The first cars manufactured by AvtoVAZ, with technical assistance from
Fiat, were marketed under the
Zhiguli brand, allegedly chosen after it was suggested by the designer, A. M. Cherny.
[2] When the cars began to be exported on foreign markets, the Zhiguli brand was found to be inappropriate, as it was hard to pronounce for non-Russian speakers, and it was said to resemble the word
gigolo too closely.
[2]