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Ok after nearly two years it is time to refresh this topic.
There is always a problem with the old "Ladas" on the site, same model can be listed under 3 or more makes. Finally I've found a proper articles from the 1970's which should help to clear this up.
So...
1. If we have for example a 2101 in movie from the former Eastern Block and nothing says that it was made after the mid-70's, the car should be listed this way:
make: VAZ
model: 2101 Zhiguli
= VAZ 2101 Zhiguli (same like GAZ 24 Volga)
A demo version (of the 2102 wagon):
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_78881-VAZ-2102-Zhiguli-Universal-1974.html
2. If we have a 2101 in movie from the west Europe:
make: Lada (only, without "VAZ")
model: 1200 (or other name - depends on country)
chassis: 2101
= Lada 1200 [2101]
Sometimes we can meet them named as "VAZ 2101 Lada", but hard to find where they were really called this way (later in Soviet Union perhaps), as if there is the word "Lada" it is usually used as make on export markets, so I propose to forget about it as it complicate the situation a lot in case of the later cars as Samara. If you remember one of the Jeremy Clarkson's shows, where he destroyed a Lada Riva, you maybe also remember that he gave there a couple quotations from the British handbook - which on the cover had big lettering "VAZ", but it wasn't used as make in the UK - VAZ was simply a name of the plant/producer in this case.
Somewhere in the mid 1970's the name Zhiguli generally dissapeard from the all export markets.
So if badges are not visible we can list all 1974+ 21011 as Lada 1300 [21011] (not important was it filmed on the east or west).
At the beginning of 1973 the production of 2103 started. Here I would leave it to choose in case of the movies from the Eastern block (except USSR*) - or VAZ 2103 Zhiguli or Lada 1500 [2103], depends on years. If movie is, for example from 1977 and nothing says that the car is brand new, I would name it VAZ. Later in the 1980's the new 2103 became less common (in many countries nearly completely replaced by the Lada 1600 [2106]), so we won't have any big problem with this.
2106 was introduced in 1976, so it was known as Lada 1600 [2106] or Lada 2106.
* According to catalogue "Samochody Świata" from the late 1990's in USSR they still used the name Zhiguli, at least for some time. So even after the mid 70's cars from the Soviet film should be listed, as (for example) "VAZ 2106 Zhiguli".
I can make these changes if they will be accepted. Or maybe there are some other proposals?
Here are links to the mentioned at the beginning articles of "Młody Technik", on which I've based.
They are in Polish
, but I am adding them from an information POV.
http://ikm.wz.cz/index.php?action=show_article&id=0000000135
http://ikm.wz.cz/index.php?action=show_article&id=0000000136
http://ikm.wz.cz/index.php?action=show_article&id=0000000134
And curiosity, here we have a Polish test of the "VAZ 2105 Zhiguli" from the 1983:
http://ikm.wz.cz/index.php?action=show_article&id=0000000153
This is I think an exception, simply it is one of the first cars of this type imported here, to describe it author also used the name "Lada 1300".
There is always a problem with the old "Ladas" on the site, same model can be listed under 3 or more makes. Finally I've found a proper articles from the 1970's which should help to clear this up.
So...
1. If we have for example a 2101 in movie from the former Eastern Block and nothing says that it was made after the mid-70's, the car should be listed this way:
make: VAZ
model: 2101 Zhiguli
= VAZ 2101 Zhiguli (same like GAZ 24 Volga)
A demo version (of the 2102 wagon):
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_78881-VAZ-2102-Zhiguli-Universal-1974.html
2. If we have a 2101 in movie from the west Europe:
make: Lada (only, without "VAZ")
model: 1200 (or other name - depends on country)
chassis: 2101
= Lada 1200 [2101]
Sometimes we can meet them named as "VAZ 2101 Lada", but hard to find where they were really called this way (later in Soviet Union perhaps), as if there is the word "Lada" it is usually used as make on export markets, so I propose to forget about it as it complicate the situation a lot in case of the later cars as Samara. If you remember one of the Jeremy Clarkson's shows, where he destroyed a Lada Riva, you maybe also remember that he gave there a couple quotations from the British handbook - which on the cover had big lettering "VAZ", but it wasn't used as make in the UK - VAZ was simply a name of the plant/producer in this case.
Somewhere in the mid 1970's the name Zhiguli generally dissapeard from the all export markets.
So if badges are not visible we can list all 1974+ 21011 as Lada 1300 [21011] (not important was it filmed on the east or west).
At the beginning of 1973 the production of 2103 started. Here I would leave it to choose in case of the movies from the Eastern block (except USSR*) - or VAZ 2103 Zhiguli or Lada 1500 [2103], depends on years. If movie is, for example from 1977 and nothing says that the car is brand new, I would name it VAZ. Later in the 1980's the new 2103 became less common (in many countries nearly completely replaced by the Lada 1600 [2106]), so we won't have any big problem with this.
2106 was introduced in 1976, so it was known as Lada 1600 [2106] or Lada 2106.
* According to catalogue "Samochody Świata" from the late 1990's in USSR they still used the name Zhiguli, at least for some time. So even after the mid 70's cars from the Soviet film should be listed, as (for example) "VAZ 2106 Zhiguli".
I can make these changes if they will be accepted. Or maybe there are some other proposals?
Here are links to the mentioned at the beginning articles of "Młody Technik", on which I've based.
They are in Polish
, but I am adding them from an information POV.http://ikm.wz.cz/index.php?action=show_article&id=0000000135
http://ikm.wz.cz/index.php?action=show_article&id=0000000136
http://ikm.wz.cz/index.php?action=show_article&id=0000000134
And curiosity, here we have a Polish test of the "VAZ 2105 Zhiguli" from the 1983:
http://ikm.wz.cz/index.php?action=show_article&id=0000000153
This is I think an exception, simply it is one of the first cars of this type imported here, to describe it author also used the name "Lada 1300".