VAZ has also tried to get into the sportier markets: several Ladas were factory-tuned and given a Momo steering wheel.

In 1980, the company started delivering Wankel-powered VAZ-2106s ( VAZ-411 engine with two-rotors ) and Ladas, mostly to security services, of which about 200 were made.

There were several attempts to reintroduce Ladas back into the UK.

These were Ladas and Sir Visto.

During a visit to Russia by French President Jacques Chirac, Louis Schweitzer noted that at Lada and Renault dealerships the € 6, 000 Ladas were selling very well while the € 12, 000 Renaults stayed in the showroom.

Since 1980 over 13. 5 million Ladas were badged as ' Rivas ' ( UK only, Signet in Canada, Nova in Germany ), added to 5 million made from 1969 to 1979, badged as 2101 ( Lada 1200 sedan ), 2102 ( Lada 1200 estate / wagon ), Lada 2103 ( quad headlights, more luxurious interior than Lada 1200, known as Lada 1500s in Canada ), Lada 2106 ( improved Lada 2103, known as Lada 1600 in Canada ) depending on engine size / interior specs for a total of over 18. 5 million.

Ladas were first imported into Australia in 1984 with the Niva compact 4WD, and in 1988 the Samara three-door hatchback was introduced.

Ladas were among the most sold cars in Finland for many years in 1970s but their share has declined and in 2004 Lada cars were in position 26th of all new registered cars.

They had minimal second-hand value in the UK and a re-export market for Russia developed: many UK-and Irish-registered Ladas were sold back to Russia ( especially by Russian trawlermen ), to be stripped for spare parts or to be sold to Russian buyers who appreciated the cars built to better export specification than cars sold on the Russian market.

It is believed that Ladas had not been imported into Australia since 1994, but it took two years to sell the remaining stock ; 1996 was the last year Lada sold vehicles on the Australian market.

There have been several attempts to reintroduce Ladas to the UK.

Some Ladas, even those of the 1970s, can still be seen on New Zealand roads ( especially in rural areas and offshore islands ) but older Ladas are increasingly rare.

Being exported worldwide in the 1980s and 1990s, Ladas was a big earner of foreign hard currency for the hard-pressed Soviet Union, and was also used in barter arrangements in some countries.

An agreement between Jamaica and the USSR in the early 1980s saw large numbers of Ladas imported under a barter arrangement in exchange for bauxite ore. Ladas became popular as taxis because of their rugged simplicity, replacing the ubiquitous, but dated, Morris Oxford.

A prominent figure on the turf for 40 years, Dalmeny bought a horse, Ladas, in 1868, though a rule banned undergraduates from owning horses.

Because of their very competitive pricing and ease of service, Ladas became common as police cars, taxis, and a range of public service and civil defence vehicles in many parts of Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean.

Engines fitted to the original Ladas start with the 1. 2 L carburetor in the original and go up to the 1. 7 L export model set up with a General Motors single point fuel injection system.

As well, the Castro government found an alternate source for vehicles in its new patron, the Soviet Union, which supplied the island with Volgas, Moskvich 1500s, Ladas and other Eastern Bloc cars, mainly for state use.

The Fiat-based Ladas feature various headlight, trim and body styles.

The Lada name was used for exports only, but a large share of Ladas was reexported from Eastern bloc countries, so the brand was well known in the domestic market as well.

A spare tyre is located in the engine bay under the bonnet, and as with all Ladas, a 21 piece toolkit is also supplied for do-it-yourself roadside repairs.

Samara 1500 hatchback ( UK, Dec ' 92 ) The attempt to appeal to a wider clientele failed ; while an improvement over previous Ladas, the Samara's higher price pitched it against stiffer West European competition.

An epigram on Ladas, the fleetest runner of his time, notes that he was commemorated in a sculpture by Myron ; of Myron's Ladas there is no known copy.

The concept entered popular culture after the publication of The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality by Alice Kahn Ladas and Beverly Whipple et al.

( See also Chalker 2002 pp. 531 – 2, Ladas et al.

The discussion entered popular culture in 1982 with the publication of the best-selling book The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality, by Ladas, Whipple, and Perry.

This was a popular account of three papers by the authors, the previous year, at the suggestion of Alice Khan Ladas.

The application of kanban to personal work originated with Jim Benson after he became exposed to related concepts through his associations with David Anderson, Corey Ladas and Don Reinertsen.

In Egypt, the Amal Foreign Trade Company and Lada's parent company AvtoVAZ signed a joint venture agreement to assemble Ladas for the North African market in 2000.

Old Ladas is a miser who is obsessed with his money but lives in poverty so that he doesn't have to spend any of it.

: The Armenian Radio answers: " Yes, but it is not Moscow but Leningrad, not Mercedes but Ladas, and not given to but stolen from.

Over 4 million shares were sold, the highest figures since early June.

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

There were 54,320 copies of fascicles sold and 642 copies distributed free during this period.

Boston fans sometimes liked to wring some wry satisfaction out of the fact that most of the great 1923-27 crew were graduates of the Red Sox -- sold to millionaires Huston and Ruppert by a man who could not deny them their most trifling desire.

`` When they became members of the city police narcotics unit '', Sokol said, `` they were told they would have to get to know certain areas of Chicago in which narcotics were sold and they would have to get to know people in the narcotics racket.

`` In August our dealers sold 13% more farm machinery than a year earlier and in September retail sales were 14% higher than last year '', says Mark V. Keeler, farm equipment vice president of International Harvester Co..

Marc also formed a group with Black Silver called Live Black, but while five of their tracks were released on a demo CD sold at concerts, Live Black's first album has yet to be released.

Unlike other hobbyist computers of its day, which were sold as kits, the Apple I was a fully assembled circuit board containing about 60 + chips.

By 1865, following the American Civil War, stocks in small industrial companies, such as iron and steel, textiles and chemicals were first sold by curbstone brokers.

Making use of a variety of proprietary chemical processes, they produced colored beads that were sold around the globe.

The Pacific Fur Company failed, however, and the fort and fur trade were sold to the British in 1813.

Choosing to resist, their town was besieged and conquered ; the males were put to death and the women sold into slavery ( see Melian dialogue ).

A beta test version of AIX 5L for IA-64 systems was released, but according to documents released in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit, less than forty licenses for the finished Monterey Unix were ever sold before the project was terminated in 2002.

Colangelo sold his interest in the General Partnership of the Diamondbacks to a group of investors who were all involved as partners in the founding of the team in 1995.

Three models were sold.

Most Aster CT-80's ( about 10 thousand of them ) were sold to schools for computer education, in a project first known as the " honderd scholen project " ( one hundred schools project ), but which later involved many more than just one hundred schools.

Among the kits sold there were also alternative floppy disk drives for TRS-80 computers.

The very first of the ready made computers were sold with the " kit " versions of the euro cards, the version with redesigned cards came a month or so later.

About a thousand of such systems were sold for many hundreds of Dutch schools.

The main units were only sold bundled with a colour or monochrome monitor that doubles as the main unit's power supply.

About 26 were sold to Siam and saw action as Infantry support guns and AA guns during the Franco-Thai war ( 1940-1941 ) along with 30 Vickers Mk. E Type B 6-ton tanks.

Neither these, nor the Great Passion, were published as sets until several years later, but prints were sold individually in considerable numbers.

Today the altarpiece is dismantled and the predellas depicting the two final scenes, Entombment and Resurrection were sold to Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in 1923 and 1930.