The 2101 is a re-engineered version of the Fiat 124 produced under licence from Fiat and tailored for the nations of the Eastern Bloc, but was widely exported to the West as an economy car. Although the facelifted and modernised VAZ-2105, 2104 & 2107 versions largely replaced it in the West in the early 1980s, it was still produced for the domestic market as late as 1988. 

The 2101 was built, virtually unaltered, from 1970 until 1982.

The VAZ-2103 Zhiguli is a deluxe compact sedan car (small class, passenger car, model 3 in the Soviet classification), produced by VAZ, introduced in 1972 and produced until 1984. Better known by its export name Lada 1500 outside of its native Soviet Union.

Known as the Zhiguli within the Soviet Union, the main differences between the VAZ-2103 and the Fiat 124 Special are the use of thicker-gauge steel for the bodyshell (so the 2103 weighed 1030 kg, the Fiat 105 kg less.

VAZ were forbidden from selling the car in competing markets alongside the Fiat 124; however exports to Western European nations began in 1974 when the 124 was discontinued in favour of Fiat's newer 131 Mirafiori model.

The Lada Niva Legend, formerly called the Lada 4×4, Lada Niva or VAZ-2121  is the Russian word for "field" but meaning crop field, is an off-road vehicle .

It was the first mass-production off-road vehicle to combine a unibody architecture with a coil-sprung independent front suspension, and is a predecessor to current crossover SUVs.

The 2020 model is produced at the Togliatti factory with minor design updates (but no technical changes) and joins the Lada 4×4 in the firm's range.

The VAZ-2105, VAZ-2104 and VAZ-2107 are a series of compact cars of the Zhiguli brand built by Russian car manufacturer VAZ, introduced in 1979 in the Soviet Union. 

Along with the other Fiat 124 derivatives, it is the third best selling automobile platform after the Volkswagen Beetle and the Ford Model T.

In September 2012, the history of the sedan model in Russia was over.  In 1978 (!)  fifty Lada 2101s - type designation Zhigulis - were equipped with an 70 pk strong single-disc Wankel engine. They were intended for the police and the KGB.

The VAZ-2108, known as the Lada Samara in much of Western Europe (codenamed and later officially badged as the Lada Sputnik in its native Russia), is a series of small family cars  manufactured under the Lada brand between 1984 and 2013.

 It was the second autonomous design from AvtoVAZ (the first was the Niva SUV), and the first Lada car not based on the Fiat-derived mechanicals. The Samara was sold all across the world, from Australia to Canada, in most European countries and throughout the COMECON sphere.