The Lada Niva has long been a favourite here at Gizmodo. Despite being born into the Soviet Union where cars weren’t just basic, they were boring, the Niva managed to impress us as both capable and full of character. The little 4×4 kept impressing buyers long after the Iron Curtain…
Among a sea of rubber-necking passersby, a woman from Bulgaria stops dead in her tracks, and some Polish men in a van slow to crawl. Eventually a dark-coloured Porsche Cayenne rolls up and its windows rolls down slowly, revealing a young man originally from Moscow with many questions. All approach…
After burying three cars, and finding them to be totally ruined by the time he dug them up a year later, Vlad, host of YouTube channel Garage 54 ENG, decided to attempt to start the vehicles’ engines. Watch as the intrepid wrencher tries to bring life to machines that appear…