lada is a brand of cars manufactured by the russian car manufacturer avtovaz based in tolyatti , samara oblast .

" lada " was originally the export brand for models sold under the " zhiguli " name in the domestic soviet market after june 1970 .

lada cars became popular in russia and eastern europe during the 1970s and 1980s , particularly in former eastern bloc countries .

the lada logo depicts a shallow-draft river sailing ship ( a form of viking longship ) - a lad ' ya .

lada made its name in western europe selling large volumes of the fiat 124-based vaz-2101 and its many derivatives as an economy car during the 1980s .

the common lada sedan and estate , sometimes known as the " classic " in the west ( vaz 2104/2105/2107 were known as signet in canada , riva in the uk , and nova in germany ) , was based on the 1966 fiat 124 sedan .

the keys to its success were : competitive price , reliability , simple diy-friendly mechanics and unpretentious functionality .

the car was built under licence in several other countries .

competitive pricing and ease of service made ladas common as police cars , taxis and a range of public service and civil defence vehicles in many parts of europe , africa and the caribbean .

exported worldwide in the 1980s and 1990s , lada was a big foreign currency earner for the hard-pressed soviet union and was used in barter arrangements in some countries .

for example , coca-cola traded its drinks in exchange for lada cars which were then shipped to the united kingdom and sold .

over 60 % of production was exported , mainly to western countries ( the us was the only large market not to have imported ladas ) .

besides the cis countries , such as ukraine , moldova , belarus , armenia , azerbaijan , kazakhstan , uzbekistan or turkmenistan , lada is currently represented in estonia , latvia , turkey , romania , bulgaria , serbia , macedonia , greece , bosnia herzegovina , the czech republic , slovakia , hungary , austria , germany , france , belgium , italy , switzerland , and lebanon .

in most of these , the models marketed are mainly the niva , the kalina and the priora , with some also receiving the granta and the largus .

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there was remaining demand only for the lada niva ( sold in russia as the lada 4x4 ) and lada 117 stw ( lada kalina station wagon ) , however .
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lada - egypt ( known as : lada ) is a private company operating within the automobiles & components sector focusing on automobile manufacturers . lada is based in cairo , egypt .
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more recently , lada has struggled to meet eu environmental guidelines . the latest models sold in finland were the lada niva and 117 stw station wagon .
“early next year we will resume exporting lada automobiles to sweden . we know that there is a market for these cars , as both buyers and sellers are already waiting on us . the lada kalina will likely be the least expensive car on the swedish market . the lada granta and possibly the lada largus will also be available , ” said peter jynnesjö , representative of the company lada scandinavia .
this concours - grade lada survived the sand , salt and sun in cuba .
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2011 lada niva 4x4 . start up , engine , and in depth tour .
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2017 lada 4x4 black edition . обзор ( интерьер , экстерьер , двигатель ) .
lada first started importing cars in 1979 . the first car to be imported into canada was the lada signet known in other parts of the world as the 2106 .
a test drive of the lada niva 4x4 m . english subtitles ( crawling titles )
2015 lada niva 4x4 urban . start up , engine , and in depth tour .
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2016 lada niva urban 4x4 . start up , engine , and in depth tour .
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about product and suppliers : urltoken offers 38 lada products . about 7 % of these are other auto parts , 5 % are auto starter , and 2 % are auto oil filter . a wide variety of lada options are available to you , there are 38 lada suppliers , mainly located in middle east . the top supplying country is turkey , which supply 100 % of lada respectively . lada products are most popular in domestic market , africa , and northern europe .
lada canada imported cars from 1979 to 1998 . they were the cheapest car you could buy .
in cuba soviet cars flood the streets , and lada cars in particular are the most popular .
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lada niva 4x4 gpl . un fuoristrada 4x4 duro e puro , oggi anche suv - crossover .
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plusieurs pièces de lada niva 1 . 6 et de lada samara 1 . 3 . j ' aurais aussi quelques autres pièces . juste à me demander . faut que ça parte ! i have a couple of lada parts for niva 1 . 6 and for samara 1 . 3 . . . .
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full details of the 2014 lada niva urban will be revealed at the moscow auto show in august .
lada casavacanze is located in terni and features studios with a fully equipped kitchenette and a shared terrace .
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smoking and the risk of lada : results from a swedish population - based case - control study .
looking for running lada niva . doesn ' t have to be perfect , but should be drivable . thanks
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plusieurs pièces de lada niva 1 . 6 à carburateur et de lada samara 1 . 3 à carburateur . les pièces disponibles sont sur les photos . j ' aurais aussi quelques autres pièces . juste à me demander .
reports this week suggest that lada’s parent company , autovaz , is finally looking to move the ‘darling of the field’ ( russian translation for lada niva ) to a new and more modern platform , for launch in 2018 .
in exchange , new zealand imported clunky and outdated lada cars through an agency set up by the dairy board .
“the lada will never die ( in cuba ) , ” he said , “it has become a classic . ”
michelin offer a large range of lada tyres for your model , simply input your lada model information and michelin will guide you to the best tyres to fit your vehicle and performance needs . enter your vehicle information into the tyre selector at the top of the page or select your lada model below to see the tyres available from michelin .
don ' t miss this : farmors lada was booked 1 time on our site in the last 12 hours .
mmotors ® : lada laika gorbachev do virgílio . . . . . quem sabe a mmotors terá um na coleção !
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delta , which had been importing lada autos since 1971 , will continue to service the russian - made vehicles . between 1970 and 1980 , more than 10 , 000 lada vehicles were registered in the country , outselling all other makes .
located in fluminimaggiore , 8 miles from iglesias , sa perda lada features a restaurant and free wifi throughout the property .
russian car - maker autovaz has announced that it will stop production of its lada 2107 model , better known in britain as the lada riva , after more than 40 years . in this gallery we remember some of the jokes it inspired .
our results suggest that low birthweight may be a risk factor for lada of the same strength as for type 2 diabetes . these findings support lada , despite its autoimmune component , having an aetiology that includes factors related to type 2 diabetes .
please note that farmors lada has no reception . please contact the property in advance for further details . please let farmors lada know your expected arrival time in advance . you can use the special requests box when booking or contact the property .
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lada 2105 . 2a kennaugh st , oakleigh east . jays models . are available from . pick - up ' s .
the days of one of the world ' s most iconic motoring brands , the lada , are numbered in finland . the once - popular car is no longer being imported . the 70s and 80s were the boxy lada’s golden age in finland .
smoking and the risk of lada : results from a swedish population - based case - control study . - pubmed - ncbi
“they are changing ( our ladas for geelys ) but i don’t think the chinese cars will be as resistant as the lada , ” said a police officer leaning against his white lada patrol car along havana’s sea wall . “only time will tell . ”
looking for a lada niva , doesn ' t have to be in perfect shape , but preferably in running order . thanks !
low birthweight is associated with an increased risk of lada and type 2 diabetes : results from a swedish case - control study .
two weeks ago we bought a lada and put our stickers all over it . now i’m about to tell you why . it…
system , which meant that a certain sum needs to be paid after 10 years should car owners wish to continue driving their cars , lada had virtually no market and pulled out quickly . there are few , if any lada cars left , on singapore roads .
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i have a bunch of lada accessories which i want to sell because i don ' t know if and when i will own the next lada . so , i ' ve got : - 4 side bottom chrome moldings and a set of plastic clips to attach . . .
everyone’s favourite pioneering russian suv , the lada niva , turns 40 years old this year - making it just about ready for an update .
the wooden furnished rooms at farmors lada all include a desk , seating area and bathroom with a shower . one features a private patio .
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read a vintage lada ad . the soviet - made lada was the real gem of finland ' s trade agreement with its eastern neighbour . it wasn ' t fancy , but few other cars were as warm in winter 40 years ago .
qualities that had always been associated with lada . the car ' s plastic front grille was also a point of contention , as it was often seen to be ugly and cheap - looking ; many were replaced with aftermarket grilles , even by lada dealers themselves before the cars were sold .
it seemed like our lada just didn’t like crossing borders . 450 miles into the caucasian challenge , we were looking at a hard sunday evening .
smoking is an established risk factor for type 2 diabetes . in contrast , it has been proposed that smoking may reduce the risk of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults ( lada ) , but studies are scarce . we aimed to study the impact of smoking on lada and type 2 diabetes risks .
in this large population of lada patients , we did not observe a protective effect of smoking on autoimmunity and the risk of lada . a protective effect could possibly be masked by a smoking - induced aggravation of insulin resistance , akin to the diabetogenic effect seen in individuals with type 2 diabetes .
low birthweight is associated with an increased risk of lada and type 2 diabetes : results from a swedish case - control study . - pubmed - ncbi
lets hope that no importer , particularly ateco get the opportunity to relaunch lada . ateco have a history of launching some of the worst vehicles ever made into this country ! great wall , chery , foton , lada ? ? ? ? ? ? . all of these vehicles should be abandoned & forgotten !
pena and dozens of other lada die - hards gather every month in lenin park on the outskirts of havana to talk about and show off their cars .
my opnion of lada is if you can ' t work on it yourself you may find that you are paying someone else to do so too often .
the lada debuted in finland in 1971 . in its heyday , 10 , 000 ladas were registered in finland every year before being overtaken by western brands .
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later on in the mid 80 ' s lada started importing the ever famous niva the compact 4x4 that is still sold brand new today in europe and russia .
russia has talked about building a lada plant in cuba to sell cars throughout latin america , but the project has been put on hold by the global recession .
of course this had some background ; the dairy board had been selling soviet lada cars in new zealand , in exchange for butter which russians were crazy about .
the contact person for action lada in finland is dr cinzia sarti : tel . + 358 ( 0 ) 9 1912 7555 email : cinzia . sarti @ urltoken
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thank you for writing . with great interest i read all the information about your lada . your experiences with you lada are like so many millions of other lada owners in that the power train is pretty much indestructible and the repairs are for all the other components . i can fully understand your attachment to your lada and your desire to keep it . it was also with great interest that i read about the new zealand regulation not allowing a person to buy a new car unless it is paid for with funds from overseas . i am guessing that their logic behind this was that new zealand money would not be used for the purchase of expensive import items .
lada sport performed a three - day test in which all drivers for the russian team drove an upgraded version of the vesta wtcc at the algarve circuit in portugal .
we used data from the epidemiological study of risk factors for lada and type 2 diabetes ( estrid ) , a swedish population - based study . eligible for the analysis were 134 incident lada cases ( glutamic acid decarboxylase antibody [ gada ] positive ) , 350 incident type 2 diabetes cases ( gada negative ) and 603 randomly selected controls . we present ors and 95 % cis for lada and type 2 diabetes in relation to birthweight , adjusted for sex , age , bmi and family history of diabetes .
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the ' new ' ladas that you bought in canada in the 80 ' s were 20 year old fiats . the skoda was a sports car compared to the lada .
the porsche designed engine helped the lada down the quarter mile at 19 . 2 seconds . brock himself devised a few subtle suspension tweaks to improve the cars low speed ride .
lada sold cars ( i ' m assuming from peoples backyards ) until 1998 when it could no longer compete with the low cost cars from korea and finally pulled the plug .
avtovaz is one of the largest car manufacturers in europe , capable of producing around 800 , 000 cars and car kits a year for lada , renault , nissan , and datsun . since 1970 , the factory has produced more than 28 million lada vehicles . avtovaz produces cars for the mass market in the price range of 289 , 000 to 500 , 000 rubles . in both 2013 and 2014 , lada vehicles won the grand prize of the magazine za rulem ( behind the wheel ) in the category “best car for regional use . ”
our aim was to investigate the association between birthweight and latent autoimmune diabetes in adults ( lada ) , a common diabetes form with features of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes .
once we crossed the armenian border , it didn’t get any better . most of their asphalt roads were worse than a dirt road full of potholes . but the lada soldiered on .
hello , i am china ' s auto trading company , i would like to know about lada niva , 2085965280 @ urltoken is my mailbox , i hope you can contact me .
absent from the canadian landscape since 1998 , lada has modernised itself over time and now offers up - to - date products . or relatively up to date . now under control of the renault - nissan alliance with a stake of 50 . 01 % , lada - avtovaz is still the largest automobile manufacturer in russia , and is now preparing to expand its worldwide presence .
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havana ( reuters ) - after three decades as the favored car of cuban nomenklatura , the austere , russian - built lada has spotted a chinese rival in its rear - view mirror .
but the no - frills lada , based on the fiat fia . mi 124 from the 1960s , has become a cult object in cuba for both its utility and its enduring presence .
there are those who doubt that the new geelys , flashier but not imbued with the lada’s image of tank - like solidity , will last as long on cuba’s pot - holed streets .
“we conducted a marketing [ study ] , and we know that there is certainly a niche for these cars on the local market , ” said the spokesperson . “the potential buyers and sellers are already waiting for us . lada kalina will probably be the cheapest car in the swedish market . also we plan so supply the local market with lada granta and maybe largus . ”
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a cuban policeman stands by a russian - built lada patrol car on havana ' s seafront
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boulevard , in this september 23 , 2009 file photo . reuters / desmond boylan
some have covered their dashboards with precious woods , installed powerful engines with souped - up carburetors or even reinvented the original soviet design by welding together two cars to build an improbable lada limo .
on friday , soviet - era volgas and a rusty 1970s lada station wagon were the main attractions at a vintage car auction held in salla , a northern town 12 miles from the border .
please inform lada casavacanze of your expected arrival time in advance . you can use the special requests box when booking , or contact the property directly using the contact details provided in your confirmation .
i used to ride in my aunt ' s beige lada wagon ( not sure of the model ) when i was a kid . . . its an experience that i never forget . . .
please inform sa perda lada of your expected arrival time in advance . you can use the special requests box when booking , or contact the property directly using the contact details provided in your confirmation .
i found one for sale that looked solid enough to qualify as a candidate . it wasn’t cheap , and the seller wasn’t going to give me a better price . she was a proper lada fan who replaced the aftermarket steering wheel with the old - school thin black plastic one and even put on the original hubcaps to complete the looks . she only sold it to buy a lada 1500 .
during an interview for the russian media , lada ceo vladimir aprilfirstov announced that the automaker was planning to invade the north - american market in 2019 , starting with canada and particularly quebec . “who doesn’t remember lada in canada ? no one , even after all these years . it’s a market that loves small , affordable cars , and it’s now time to get back into the hearts of canadians . ”
i was talking with my old man today when he told me something i never new about . lada ' s where sold new here in canada from 1979 up until 1998 . i ' m old enough to remember 1998 very vividly and the only lada i ever remember seeing in canada is the lada niva and i tough it was something that someone imported straight from russia ( or back then the u . s . s . r . ) . i was born in 1985 and being a car guy from a very young age you would think i would know this . so i decided to do some digging .
one of the most famous model was the niva , a compact 4×4 . the niva still exist and sells mainly in europe and in russia . it just doesn’t use the model name anymore . it is a 4×4 . lada sold an average of 12 , 000 units per year in canada . those that remember lada do mainly remember that model . many would be surprised that it still has fans in canada .
this was only the starting point of the caucasian challenge , but having covered 850 miles already without any major issues made it cross my mind that all this could be done with a 1982 lada 1200 after all .
we bought a 1988 lada station wagon for our roadtrip to east cape of new zealand . amazing car , amazing country , great time . . . camera : i - phone 4s , cutting with sony vegas 11 .
a daily breakfast is served in the café , which also sells coffee and homemade pastries during the day , as well as secondhand items . guests can relax in farmors lada’s surrounding garden with outdoor furniture and bbq facilities .
[ full disclosure and editor’s note : a year ago , jalopnik writer máté petrány convinced his bosses , against their better judgment , to let him spend a bunch of gawker media’s money to buy an old lada and run in the caucasian challenge . the organizers of the challenge wanted jalopnik to try it with a lada so badly that they waived the entry fee , and got us a few hotel rooms free of charge along the way as well .
i nearly brought this lada samara in the early 90 ' s . it has 2 - door & 4 - door version . that time bland new cost 33k . another competitor is skoda rapid . it a 2 - door coupe . the engine if i rem correctly is at the back of the car . same like now , majority safe bet is jap car so end up still brought a jap car . my colleage brought lada during that time .
after all ties were cut from holden , brock became involved in the importation and even the modification of the lada samara . a cheap soviet built hatchback a world away from the high performance v8 powered commodores he was famous for .
“i do not think it will be easy to displace the lada , ” said david pena , a 39 - year old mechanic who recently founded cuba’s russian automobile club . “for us this car is like a family member . ”
a daily breakfast is served in the café , which also sells coffee and homemade pastries during the day , as well as second - hand items . guests can relax in farmors lada’s surrounding garden with outdoor furniture and bbq facilities .
balázs , a former colleague of mine , served as our mechanical expert . he studied engineering and had a lada samara as his first car , so he knew more about how to fix our car than roland and i combined .
the lada priora subcompact sedan is also equipped with a 1 . 6 - litre engine , this one developing as much as 106 hp . its combined city / highway fuel economy is rated at a low 6 . 9 l / 100 km . “the rear bumper of the lada priora became more stylish and functional . its lower part , which gets muddy and dented fast , is pulp colored black , and its upper part is still the color of the cabin . ”
we drove almost all the way through turkey flat out on the highway , and the lada was perfectly fine . then , just as we hit the mountains for the first time , we ran into some issues with the engine overheating .
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i still find it strange that i have never once seen a dealership or any other cars other than the occasional niva . i ' m originally from a small hick town in southern new - brunswick where everybody went nuts for very cheap cars . i grew up around hyundai pony ' s but no lada ' s ? i ' m even surprised we did not own a lada in our family as my dad is extremely cheap and this would of been right up his alley .
“anyone can fix it with just a piece of wire , ” said carlos , a veteran mechanic in havana . “if you ask a cuban he will tell you he does not want to exchange his lada for anything in the world . ”
does anyone have experience with the lada niva ? it is a small jeep type 4x4 from a russian automaker . i ' m considering purchasing a 2001 or 2002 and will head up to the mountains probably next month to pick one up .
the diabetes and genetic epidemiology unit ( digy ) , which forms part of the department of epidemiology and health promotion ( eteo ) at the national public health institute ( ktl ) acts as the action lada co - ordination centre for finland .
i had my lada’s rear plate in my backpack and its registration in my pocket as reminders of what i’ve just done , and i knew that that still won’t be enough to get me off the hook on this side of the map .
i had 2 lada nivas . image this . . . . south stradbroke island qld a lada niva tows a mercedes benz 4wd off the beach . . . ha ha ha it happened . the pictures were published in a 4wd mag as well . best fun cars i ever had , lock the diff and climb the side off a mountain , out climbed many mainstream 4wds without any mods done . yeah as lada owners we all heard the read window heater joke . but they never cost me and i have a great pic towing a trailer with a 7 meter palm tree in it fronds going over car all the way to bonnet . bring them back to oz i say . i ' d buy one in a heartbeat .
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you are buying 1 x gates drive belt 4pk700 lada samara 1 . 3l 4 cyl . 1988 - 96 , alt . micro v - belt . gates stretch fit belts may look like standard v - ribbed belts but inside they are dramatically different .
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the soviet union took cuba under its wing in 1961 , two years after fidel castro rose to power in a 1959 revolution , and until its implosion in 1991 showered the communist - led island with billions of dollars in subsidies and goods , including the lada .
unlike their compatriots kimi raikkonen and tommi makinen - - known for impressive race and rally car driving on international circuits - - members of the finnish lada club are happy merely to prove their vintage soviet - made relics still have power . the box - shaped lada , the finnish everyman ' s car of the 1970s , is enjoying a cult revival in the country . dozens of enthusiastic members gathered this weekend in kangasala , some 160 km ( 99 miles ) northwest of helsinki , to race and admire each other ' s ladas and share a nostalgia for simpler days .
they are cheap to maintain and pleasant to drive and i like its look . i can fix them , and repair costs are reasonable , because it ' s easy and cheap to buy parts . these are the main points about them ,
said lada club member juha laaksonen . the lada was once the most popular car in finland because of its low price and consistently appeared in the top 10 list of new car registrations between 1972 and 1996 . lada enthusiasts also swear the automobiles are still great in cold weather - - a huge asset for a car whose mid - century looks were modelled on the fiat 124 .
i think this one looks appealing . it ' s warm and it starts in all weather conditions ,
another enthusiast , mikko holopainen , said . sales dropped off after a peak in 1988 as finland ' s economy turned increasingly westward following the collapse of the soviet union . imports ended last year , and the once - ubiquitous cars are now rarely seen on finnish streets .
i bought my first lada ten years ago , just because i needed a car to go from place a to place b , and a couple of months later there was a first meeting , and i was going , me and my wife went there and we liked the club and so it caught on ,
said lada club chairman jarno pajari . a well - maintained lada is estimated to fetch more than 2 , 000 euros ( $ 2 , 600 ) on the second - hand market , but none of the members in the club are ready to sell theirs . they say their love for the car is about more than money . lada clubs exist across europe , including in hungary , uk , estonia , netherlands and , of course , russia .
for now , a sales and service network hasn’t yet been confirmed . however , two options are open to lada , either to share showroom floor space in nissan dealerships , or in mitsubishi dealers , now that the renault - nissan alliance is a 34 % shareholder .
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lada niva 21213 . the car is 1996 . 1700 injector engine . runs and drives . with sunroof , nice alloy bwa wheels with new tires . great off - road car to have some fun with . $ 5000 . i will remove add if car . . .
this is the new niva , sure changed a lot , hopefully better quality now that it ' s a joint venture with chevy . did you know that the original niva is still sold today ! this is a new lada concept . . . hehe , sure looks different
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the lada 4×4 still lives on in certain markets including the home market in russia and germany . it is available in two body styles and four trims . the niva has been given a selection of improvements . but it still very the same . it even smells the same .
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remember the lada niva ? though it departed the australian market in 1998 , the rugged soviet - era off - roader is still kicking around in russia and parts of europe , and it ' s set to get a mild update for 2014 - its 37th year of production .
but lada owners need not worry - - delta has promised to continue providing maintenance services for these cars , which are often the butt of jokes for their rudimentary style . but that ' s not to say that some don ' t wax nostalgic about this cold war staple .
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* this is not a for sale add * hey there , i ' m looking to purchase a lada niva . i ' d like to buy a running and driving roadworthy niva . i ' m not looking for someone ' s abandoned mud bog project , or a . . .
after 1997 the samara was mostly sold in its homeland only , although it was still sold in some foreign markets with less strict emissions regulations . the last samara rolled off the production line in 2004 , ending 20 years of production . an upmarket version for the european market , the lada
the exhaust started to get louder once again as we were approaching yerevan , some 3 , 300 miles added to the lada’s odometer and finally on a highway you could call decent . we managed to fix that after parking the car on a concrete ramp by the side of the road .
- lada delivers through proven rugged durability , and is built to withstand off - road punishment with high ground clearance and heavy duty stiff coil springs , front and rear with long suspension travel . performance - the newly re - designed niva comes with a powerful 1 . 7 litre fuel injected system provided by general motors which when combined with a new interior package and a re - designed rear door configuration makes it even more versatile . lada commits - to your satisfaction by offering a 36 month / 60 , 000 km . limited warranty and a 24 hour emergency roadside assistance program .
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luckily for us , unlike hungarians , bulgarians are allowed to work on sundays , which meant that after following some very helpful gentlemen to a nearby village , we ended up in a garage where they had actual tools for figuring out what was wrong . and they liked our lada a lot .
getting through the turkish border at 2 a . m . with a lada packed full of our stuff and a stalin sticker on its back wasn’t what you would call a walk in the park , but after they’re done playing with us , we got through and arrived to istanbul by sunrise .
general motors began making the niva in russia in 2002 , then added the viva in 2004 and lada still makes the original niva ( a potentially confusing market ) . hey , gm is trying to sell it ' s last hummers really cheap ! you won ' t need roads with that . haha
lada scandinavia has existed for about 30 years , but recently imports from russia have dwindled down to about 30 cars a year , according to tass . the fact that the head of bo andersson , head of avtovaz , is himself a swede certainly contributed to the return of the brand to sweden .
avtovaz is launching production of lada - badged cars in egypt this year with local assembler al amal . the russian carmaker will deliver 1 , 500 semi - knockdown ( skd ) kits to the country in 2015 , though the plant has capacity for annual production of 9 , 000 on one shift .
i’m not sure at what point did i give up , but as we got tired of getting the same answer everywhere in russian , it became clear that we’ll have to abandon out beloved lada somewhere near the airport , with the extra oil and parts in the back that she never asked for .
the samara was produced in various three , four and five door designs with engine displacements of 1 . 1 , 1 . 3 and 1 . 5 litre petrol engines . lada had hoped that the samara would enable it to compete for sales in the mainstream western car market - how wrong they were .
finnish customs officials put more than 100 soviet - era cars on the auction block after they were left behind by asylum seekers . the volgas fetched prices up to €640 ( £535 ) and the lada estate car , with now - rare circular headlights , was picked up by a finnish collector for €280 .
low birthweight increased the risk of lada as well as the risk of type 2 diabetes ; or per kg reduction was estimated as 1 . 52 ( 95 % ci 1 . 12 , 2 . 08 ) and 1 . 58 ( 1 . 23 , 2 . 04 ) , respectively . the or for participants weighing < 3 kg compared with ≥4 kg at birth was estimated as 2 . 38 ( 1 . 23 , 4 . 60 ) for lada and 2 . 37 ( 1 . 37 , 4 . 10 ) for type 2 diabetes . a combination of low birthweight ( < 3 kg ) and current overweight ( bmi ≥ 25 ) further augmented the risk : lada , or 3 . 26 ( 1 . 69 , 6 . 29 ) ; and type 2 diabetes , or 39 . 93 ( 19 . 27 , 82 . 71 ) . family history of diabetes had little impact on these estimates .
for those who get permission , a new , basic lada can be bought for the equivalent of about $ 5 , 000 u . s . a black market exists , where the purchaser buys the car for about three times the normal price , but it remains registered in the name of the original owner .
i love the look of the lada niva and there seem to be a lot of them around . there are also a gazillion reputable mechanics who are top notch , in ec and very reasonably priced . therefore a used vehicle seems the way to go . a new vehicle might get cosmetically wrecked within five minutes .
avtovaz ( vaz stands for volga automobile plant ) is situated in the city of tolyatti , in the samara region of russia . beginning in the early 1970s , it sold lada brand automobiles to cuba , a vehicle patterned after the fiat family cars . hundreds of those old ladas can still be seen on cuban roads .
isuzu bellet 1964 - 1971 f & r . lada niva 4x4 1 . 6l 1983 - 1993 f & r ( most - but not all ) . fiat 124 , 125 , 131 , 132 1967 - 1982 f & r . fiat 130 1972 - 1976 f & r ( tailshaft - not half shafts ) .
i guess the most remarkable thing was that once we hit some clean tarmac again , the lada became silent again immediately . there were no new alarming sounds coming from the bottom , nor sing of any other damage whatsoever . our ancient car acted basically like a tank , with much more comfort and better fuel economy .
the lada signet was powered by a rwd 75hp 1500cc 4 cylinder . the signet had quite the slogan
at $ 4 , 998 no other car in canada comes with so much and sells for so little .
that ' s right ! at the time the signet was the cheapest car you could buy in canada .
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jamaica is home to a magnificent landscape of rolling mountains lined by endless white–sand–beaches , covered by lush foliage and crisscrossed by streaming rivers and cascading waterfalls . it is also home to some of the most luxurious resorts in the world , featured here on lada travel . browse our select group of jamaica resorts for your most unforgettable vacation or honeymoon travel .
there are a lot of reasons why it had do go down like this . one of them is that i started our journey without ever believing our old lada could make it more than 3 , 500 miles on a brutal drive from budapest to the armenian capital of yerevan . i couldn’t have been more wrong—but it still never got to go home .
meanwhile our lada was getting ready packed with new parts and a disabled thermostat , i ordered a set of new tires to end up with a car that cost twice as much as i originally intended , but at least looked promising enough to cross a border . i threw a few tools in the trunk and went to pick up my two companions .
driving on pretty much the wheel is not what i wanted to try in istanbul’s busy center , but luckily enough , we managed to get to the city’s car shop street , and soon found a guy who had inner tubes for a 13 - inch lada tire . these cheerful gentlemen fell in love with our surprisingly rust - free zhiguli as well .
- lada offers the lowest priced permanent 4x4 sport utility vehicle and delivers by including standard features usually found in more expensive models . the front brakes of our niva have dual circuits to each front wheel disc brake , which are equipped with three piston calipers , and rear brakes with a load sensitive design , providing outstanding braking and reliability for extreme driving conditions .
when the pavement ends , the lada niva se is the most affordable and worth 4x4 sport utility vehicle on the market . the new italian designed styling kit enhances the sport utility image . the niva se outperforms the competition in off road ability and enables you to find your own space with style and at a cost many thousands of dollars below the competition .
“every year , the influx of tourists increases . cars for this industry are needed and lada would like to be a player in this growing market , ” said marat gabitov , director of ivekta , distributor in cuba of avtovaz vehicles . ivekta will be responsible for the warranty and post - warranty service of the russian cars and the supply of spare parts .
in the uk , the samara achieved only small market penetration . the market sector in which lada had always served many buyers preferred to stay with the riva . the whole idea behind the introduction of the samara is that it would make sales to a wider clientele ( those who wanted up - to - date technology ) , and this it failed to do .
just a prize to lada enthusiast or tools collector . the ruler line needs to be placed on top of camshaft and , then put camshaft to a 0 degree position and start with number 6 and 8 , than turn the crank on 180 degree which will turn camshaft on 90 degree and adjust 4 and 7 and so on until camshaft makes a full turn .
once in yerevan , we were all smiles thinking this was all the maintenance our 33 - year - old lada needed in order to drive 3 , 500 miles from budapest , through roads that made it stall in first gear . three adults with two large bags at high altitudes in a 60 horsepower car . talk about pushing it over the limit . . .
here in canada we tend to laugh at them . there is such a wide selection of vehicles in n . america that the perception is that lada is junk , but it is cheap . i watched our local lada dealer open and close again because no one wanted them . n . americans have better roads and spend more time on highways and less time on treacherous dirt roads , so the niva does not fit the need well . the opposite may be true in ec . my personal perception is that , with the right tires , they are decent off - road because of their short wheel base , but prone to a myriad of minor but irritating break - downs . you should confirm how easy it is to find new and used parts .


snow business is a provider of artificial snow for various entertainment industries .

the company was founded by darcey crownshaw in 1982 .

crownshaw was working in the paper industry when a production unit filming the last days of pompeii for abc-tv placed an order with his employers for three quarters of a ton of shredded grey cellulose paper to use as artificial volcanic ash .

the firm would not deliver less than 20 tons so crownshaw fulfilled the order himself using the padding from jiffy bags .

crownshaw later supplied the same production unit with paper snow , and spotting a gap in the market established snow business .

the company produces over 160 different types of artificial snow as well as frost , ice , snowballs , snowmen , icicles , igloos and icebergs .

film credits include band of brothers , die another day , the day after tomorrow , the harry potter series , the lion , the witch and the wardrobe , and the golden compass .

on 23 november 2006 snow business international set a guinness world record for the largest area covered with continuously falling artificial snow , covering the new bond street , bond street and old bond street areas of london simultaneously .

the area measured 12,462.78 m ² ( 134,148 ft ² ) .

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darcey crownshaw launches snow business . the company invents the first eco - friendly artificial snow , made from recycled paper
in 1997 a third snow business company , snow business deutschland was conceived . it took two years to work through all the german legislation and company law . trading started in 1999 and the german film community have made snow business deutschland very welcome with trading exceeding all our expectations .
staff from snow business celebrating the year ' s success . the company is the world ' s biggest supplier of snow for hollywood films
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snow business hollywood is a special - effects company that makes camera - ready snow . here , roland hathaway , an owner , talks about his star turns .
snow business also works on advertisements and live events . pictured is a mercedes advertisement
snow business can give any event a touch of magic using our huge range of artificial snow and winter effects .
a well - known company in stroud supplied the snow for the seventh star wars film .
‘snowcel artificial snow’ quickly emerged as the main product line and a range of artificial snow was developed and refined . a new company , snow business , was incorporated with the sole aim of supplying ‘snow and winter effects’ to the motion picture industry .
snow business , which is based in ebley , is a world leader in snow and winter effects and provided the snow in the highly anticipated new movie .
the innovative company has over 200 different types of snow at its snow mill including a wide range of ash , soot and burnt effects .
the company quickly earned the trust and respect of people within the motion picture industry and was welcomed into the bectu in the 1980’s . snow became an obsession for david whose aim was to make snow business the world leader for snow and winter effects .
darcey crownshaw ' s company snow business , which he founded 31 years ago , specialises in delivering more than 300 varieties of snow - both real and artificial - for the world ' s biggest film and tv productions .
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today , snow business offers more than 200 types of artificial snow and ice to its international customers – from light frosts , to fluffy , settled snow , to falling snow , to icicles , and seemingly every variation in between .
in 1996 snow business expanded its operations by incorporating in the usa establishing offices in los angeles and south carolina . with an ever - expanding workforce , year 2000 saw the company become a signatory to iatse ( branch 44 ) . snow business can now supply fully unionised facilities to all american filmmakers .
the largest area over which artificial snow fell continuously measured 12 , 462 . 78 m² ( 134 , 148 ft² ) , and was achieved by snow business international ( gloucestershire , uk ) over bond street , london , uk to celebrate switching on the street ' s christmas lights , on 23 november 2006 . * * please make sure that it is listed as : ' snow business international ' and not snow business ( uk ) as this is a different company . * *
it’s a glamorous roster and one far removed from the company’s genesis in 1983 , when crownshaw was working for a paper products business and seized on an opportunity .
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the harry potter series of films also utilised snow business . pictured in a scene from harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban
snow business is constantly researching , testing , and developing new snow materials and equipment . we test and evaluated every variety of snow and every type of snow machine we ever encounter , then we meet the manufacturers in order to refine and customise their wares for our specific use . this ongoing development completed with the backing of product manufacturers , is what keeps snow business ahead of all of its rivals
snow business is the world leader in the supply of artificial snow for motion pictures . although it is the largest company of its kind in the world it actually offers its services via a series of small units each employing local full time staff , this allows the service to be very ‘one to one’ i . e . ‘personal’ . the company’s open management structure means your telephone call may as easily be answered by the president of the company as by any other employee .
the firm’s relationship with eon productions , the company behind the bond franchise , began in 1994 – when snow business created snowy runway scenes for goldeneye – and has continued with contributions to several subsequent movies , including current release spectre .
but the biggest barrier to early growth in the industry was getting his fledging company’s name and products known and trusted . the solution , crownshaw says , can apply to anyone in business :
snow business is truly internationally and is able to provide snow anywhere in the world . with an impressive number of friendly world - wide contacts the company can draw on local knowledge and expertise , something that is essential when large budget movies have so much money invested and so little time to produce .
snow business hollywood 21318 hart st . canoga park , ca 91303 tel : + 818 . 884 . 3009 fax : 818 . 884 . 3110 email : snowbusinesshollywood
the company signs its first james bond contract , for goldeneye . it would go on to supply snow for all but one of the subsequent films , up to the present day
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as the range of products became ever more widely used on locations , the company designed and supplied equipment for laying the materials more quickly over ever - larger areas . later , as the equipment and materials became more sophisticated , the company supplied specialist technicians to operate and supervise contracts .
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with film work now making up only 20 per cent of the company’s business and a diverse range of other revenue streams – including shop window displays ( one telecoms giant paid $ 1m , or £650 , 000 , for such a project ) , events and global product retail – underpinning the growth of snow business , crownshaw has much else to focus on . but he admits that the big - and small - screen projects have still provided the biggest thrills so far :
' we ' ve got over 300 different types of artificial snow . or you can make real snow , that ' s kind of a little bit bigger and whiter . even when we make real snow - even now , it ' s just one kind of snow but we can make it in different varieties .
today , snow business operates in 28 countries , turning over £5m and employing 35 people in the uk . its list of movie credits includes batman begins , bridget jones’s diary , gladiator , notting hill and paddington .
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a crew from the black arts company travelled with british forces and their families to bulgaria . film now in post - production and on this site soon .
his innovations in snow that is suitable for massive film crews and fictional situations has made his company hollywood ' s first port of call for winter creations when the on screen temperature drops and they can ' t wait on the weather .
‘snow business systems’ are supplied to many countries through a growing network of fully trained agents . we currently have agents in the czech republic , hungary , canada , new zealand , spain , belgium , holland , denmark and portugal .
however the 31 years spent perfecting the different types of snow were not always easy .
in year 2000 snow business opened its ‘international sales’ department , headed by rebecca binns . this department is currently based in the uk and is dedicated to offering the best possible service anywhere in the world through its international links and contacts .
“in my first full year i turned over £980 . ” but he remained convinced of the potential and willing to take risks to grow the business .
what is your artificial snow made of ? actually , we have 168 different products that we can use . primarily , the stuff that we use the most is paper snow .
impressive snow & winter effects for major films and iconic television shows for over 30 years .
snow business is involved on a winter film set somewhere in the world , every single working day of the year . the experience this gives , coupled with our range of over 140 types of snow , frost and ice materials , allows us to offer the most competent advice and supply the best winter effect for any scene , anywhere in the world .
with production credits that include hollywood blockbusters such as gladiator and gangs of new york , to much - loved british tv series such as coronation street , a small gloucestershire business has celebrated another year as the world ' s most sought - after expert in fake snow .
you may not have heard of darcey crownshaw before , but you’ve certainly seen his snow . the entrepreneur – whose special effects company operates from a 1730s water mill in stroud , gloucestershire – has created artificial wintry scenes for everything from coronation street to winter olympic games opening ceremonies and high - street shop window displays :
which is your proudest accomplishment ? “wonder boys . ” all the snow in that movie is all fake .
from being intensively hands - on with day - to - day operations ( “because i was still making every decision , i was strangling the company and this is a typical thing of small businesses that grow” ) , crownshaw has taken a step back : “when i started i worked 80 hours a week , and i’ve only just stopped dreaming about snow – all my nightmares were about snow not being ready on time , ” he laughs .
the artificial snow is created from ingredients such as paper , wood pulp , starch , polymer and biodegradable plastic , while real snow can be customised to appear , for example , as light snowflakes , or a thick and heavy downfall .
after that first chance encounter , the next three years saw a wider range of cellulose based products being supplied to the special effects industry . these included ‘moondust’ , ‘spray lawn’ , ‘spray foliage’ , ‘spray jungle’ , ‘wash - away soot’ , ‘sandblast - free sand’ , and the first 100 % biodegradable , eco - friendly , purpose made ‘artificial snow’ for motion pictures . this product ‘snowcel – full size – cellulose based snow’ was first used in neil jordan’s motion picture ‘company of wolves’ .
whichever road crownshaw goes down in the years ahead , you can be certain the forecast will be for plenty of snow .
' we have to understand what the customer expects and then you have to deliver . when a director says
i want snow
, you have to start a conversation and say :
well , what snow do you need ?
'
and what of the company’s work on the latest bond movie , spectre ? “we created fake snow that matched in with real snow , ” he explains . “by the time everyone’s rehearsed , it doesn’t really look like you’re the first man ever to climb that mountain . so we had to go in and match the real snow perfectly . when you’re on mountains , things don’t tend to biodegrade because it’s just like putting it in the freezer – and if you’re in a location that does thaw the last thing they want is a load of paper and plastic left behind – so we used snows that biodegrade with ultraviolet light . ”
the technology does have its downsides . unlike the snowflakes that kindergartners cut from construction paper , artificial snow doesn’t have lacy dendrites . as a result , individual flakes pack together more tightly — better for racing , worse for powder - skiers . one acre of snow , one foot deep , can cost up to $ 2 , 000 , and it depletes water resources and devours energy . but it has also become the insurance policy that keeps ski resorts , with their sophisticated lifts and posh lodges , in business . “if you don’t have snow on the slopes , ” bender says , “you don’t have anything . ”
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“if you see snow on telly this christmas , it’s ours . if you see a snowy scene in an advert in a magazine , it’s ours , and if you’re on a plane travelling somewhere and you watch four movies with snow in them , that’s ours too , ” he chuckles .
what are the advantages of using artificial snow on a film set ? you can control it . also , you’re never dealing with the cold weather .
he has even used snow that has a tinge of yellow - so it didn ' t make a white fridge being advertised appear off - coloured .
director’s editor spent nine years interviewing tv and film stars for sky before joining the iod in 2011 and turning the microphone on britain’s business leaders . since then he’s grilled everyone from boris to branson and , away from work , maintains an unhealthy obsession with lower league football .
“i come into the office one day a week now , but i have an office at home . i’m always working , always looking at what’s coming next , analysing our pay equality , looking at what we’ve got in our portfolio that’s not quite as eco - friendly as it could be and asking ‘how can we replace that ? ’ getting your head out of the day - to - day running of the business , you can get into the long - term objectives . a certain detachment does help you to see the business in a better way .
setting up an office in hollywood in 1999 was a landmark moment for snow business , but operating in the us has not been as smooth as crownshaw expected : “it’s a real eye - opener – we speak the same language so you think setting up will be a lot easier than somewhere like the czech republic , but it’s the most difficult place i’ve ever worked… the culture is different , the taxation system works on a totally different premise .
when darcey crownshaw first made artificial snow for films , his annual turnover was just £980 . today his gloucestershire firm turns over £5m and produces over 200 types of snow for projects ranging from shop window displays and the winter olympic games , to the new james bond film spectre . here he talks innovation , global growth and taking a step back
the day after tomorrow movie ( pictured ) was particularly challenging because of the sheer scale of snow required for the production . the film depicts earth during an apocalyptic climate event
a week spent in fake artificial snow was not going to make cast and crew sick , nor turn to slush due to hundreds of people tramping over it days on end .
“listen to what people say they need and show them you can respond . because then people think ‘this guy listens to what i tell him , i’ll give him a go’ . for example , when we did snow for the muppets , our snow was too big because muppets are much smaller than real people , so we had to invent a much smaller snow , which isn’t as easy as it sounds . but when they say ‘come back with something smaller’ and you do come back with something smaller , they say ‘ok , great’ and it goes from there . ”
a movie special effects expert got in touch , looking for someone to supply an alternative to the messy , eco - unfriendly salt and polystyrene - based materials he was using to double for snow . “he suggested there was a lot of money to be made in this and that i really ought to go into it full time , ” recalls crownshaw , whose solution was a snow made from recycled paper .
but by the 1980s , it was already enhancing the expansion of winter resort business . “for us it was essential right from day 1 , ” says bob wheaton , president of utah’s deer valley resort , which opened in 1981 . ( the resort currently employs 40 people to make snow . ) now ski slopes sport multimillion - dollar snowmaking facilities , with arrays of $ 30 , 000 automated snow guns fed by miles - long networks of underground water and compressed - air pipes . unlike the early guns , the nozzles are often mounted dozens of feet into the air , giving the water droplets more time to freeze as they float to the ground . dirt particles , called nucleators , are thrown into the mix too . “you can take pure water down to minus - 40 and not freeze it , ” says joe vanderkelen , president of smi snowmakers , one of the nation’s largest purveyors . “but if you drop a fleck of dust in it” — which helps form a hexagonal array — “it will freeze . ”
what are the major milestones in this industry ? there are some pictures that we found from ’50s movie sets , where people were actually just shoveling asbestos into a fan . in the early ’80s , paper snow started to be used , and it solved all the environmental issues .
' other snows might sparkle when the camera goes close to it . other snows might be really white so it goes slushy on the paths when cars drive through . others bulk up so you have three feet ( deep ) snow a man can fight his way through . '
“also , one of the useful things the government does now , through ukti , is offer training and support to help companies move into global markets . for a membership fee , we were able to approach china at a lower cost as they offered grants . you can also host meetings at a british embassy with your prospects , and receive guidance on business protocols in the country you’re going into . the expertise is out there and you can access it very cost effectively . ”
' normally on a movie set we ' ll be using seven different types of snow to achieve what the director wants . some will be very white in the background while snows in the foreground will be much better looking close up and will be durable so the actors leave footprints when they walk .
before humans conquered snowmaking , ski resorts relied on the vagaries of old man winter . he was not always forthcoming . so in the dry connecticut chill of 1949 - 1950 , walter schoenknecht , the owner of the mohawk mountain ski resort , took matters into his own hands . “he trucked in 700 tons of ice , ” recalled arthur hunt , a forefather of artificial snow , in a retrospective in ski area management magazine . schoenknecht subsequently “had it chopped up and spread over a single slope . ” it was the first known use of fake snow on a ski slope . it also helped spark an idea . one monday that march , hunt’s colleague wayne pierce came up with a shrewder plan . he figured that a drop of water , propelled through below - freezing air , would turn into a snowflake , hunt recalled . along with dave richey , their partner in a ski factory , they slapped together a spray - gun nozzle , a 10 - horsepower compressor and a garden hose into something of a d . i . y . snow gun . they experimented with it all night . “by morning , ” hunt wrote , “we had a 20 - inch pile of snow over a diameter of 20 feet . ” the contraption was later used at mohawk mountain .
' things like the day after tomorrow - that was quite a challenge - just the scale of the snow . then you get things like maleficent , when they wanted really amazing ice shapes and special features , so again that ' s a challenge . when we did the muppets movies , we ' d never worked with actors six inches high before .
the length measured 903 . 1 m ( 2 , 963 ft ) , the width at the narrowest point 13 . 8 m ( 45 ft 3 in ) . in total , 40 machines used 200 litres ( 352 pints ; 422 us pints ) of fluid to produce the effect . the snow was eco - friendly , melted on impact with the ground and was made from seaweed .
fake snow took a while to stick . through the ’70s , the initial product , icy and blue , was considered something of a nuclear option . “it started out as a couple of bad winters here and there and , ‘oh , my god , we have to have snowmaking in case we have another bad winter , ” says curtis bender , a retired professor of ski - area operations at colorado mountain college .
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“i invited the manager from the midland bank to my house for coffee , impressed upon him i had a house , and asked if he could lend me some money . i promised i’d get money from doing a film and pay him back in six months .
“each time i won a film , the next one seemed a little bit bigger , so i’d invite him back and he’d lend me more money and it just grew on borrowed bank money . those were the days when bank managers had customer relations – true personal banking . ”
“you’d build something and suddenly you’d lose it , because the us film industry goes into decline around every five years , ” he says . “but i managed to expand internationally – if i went to do a job in the czech republic i’d leave equipment out there and set up a distributor , then i’d go to moscow and set someone up there and copenhagen and so on . ”
“the advice we read from the dti [ now bis ] was that , if you set up in america you will get sued , so you need to make sure the us division is a totally different entity to the uk division – otherwise when one goes down it’ll bring the other down .
“we’ve found that the best way to work internationally is with local partners , ” he continues . “it’s obviously slightly more risky because you’ve got to take on people that you perhaps don’t know too well – but you just structure it so that , win or lose , you come out alright .
materials used include papers , foams , waxes and ash , and their method of application ranges from easy layering by hand , to dispersal by dazzlingly sophisticated machines .
“all the plastic bags we use for packaging are made out of vegetable and return to vegetable – no petro - chem in them at all , ” he says . “that has opened doors for us with people like greenpeace , the body shop and john lewis . ”
“there were two jobs that stood out , one was goldeneye and the other was doctor who . being on doctor who was just mind - blowing because i’d always watched it as a kid .
“ goldeneye was great , it was shot at leavesden aerodrome – just being there when that tank hurtled past at full speed , literally a car length behind the vehicle it was chasing , it was incredible , ” he says .
“you have to have one eye on the now and realise that’s what is bringing in the bread and butter – but also give yourself the space to understand what’s coming up in five years’ time . where do you need to be ? how do you get there ? start planting those markers – the sooner you plant them , the less of a diversion you take on the wrong road . ”
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holiday letting specialist , urltoken reports increases of 145 percent in bookings to the area for 2015 since the announcement and in the lead up to the film’s release .
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