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After driving his Lada Niva for three weeks, it was time for Matt Anderson to really test its Geländefahrtfähigkeiten—German for "off-road driving skills."
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Expedition Portal - Overland Journal editor Chris Collard is in Russia in search of cool rides and found this Lada Niva set up with heavy-duty bumpers, lift, BFGoodrich KM2 mud terrains, and
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Off-roading my Lada Niva in a mining quarry was as absurd, and glorious, as it sounds - Hagerty Media
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Lada Niva 4x4 crossing river. Mud. Extreme.
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