Granta2011–present

The Lada Granta is AvtoVAZ's budget small family car, launched in 2011 on an evolution of the long-serving Kalina platform and continued as a single generation ever since, comprehensively facelifted in 2018 with the brand's X-face styling. Offered as a sedan, liftback, hatchback and estate with simple 1.6-litre eight- and sixteen-valve engines, it has spent much of its life as Russia's best-selling car on the strength of price and repairability.

The Granta's reputation is exactly what its mission implies: crude but tough, with well-understood mechanicals, dirt-cheap parts and tolerance for bad roads and casual maintenance. Refinement, equipment and crash performance trail global-brand rivals by a wide margin, and export presence outside the former Soviet sphere is limited. For buyers inside its ecosystem it is rational transport; outside, it is a curiosity with a thin support network.