Hatchback Lada Kalina Sport is already sold through official AvtoVAZ dealers – August 6, 2014, Volzhsky Automobile Plant announced the official start of sales. We decided to collect all the facts about the model in one publication. If you are thinking about the acquisition of this car or simply do not want to believe rumors and incompetent comments – read our material.

11 facts you need to know about Lada Kalina Sport

1. The model is collected in separate production.

Sporting "Kalina" is built on the basis of the most expensive, luxury version of Lada Kalina, and these cars do not on AvtoVAZ. The Lada Sport division has its own production – a compact modern workshop, where in painted and collected at the body of the body put 118-strong engines, modified gearbox with sports skewers, branded shock absorbers, exhaust gas output system, disc brakes "in a circle", as well as original Seats, steering wheel, handles of gearbox and parking brakes.

In the same workshop and on the same technology, a sports "grant" is collected. Last year, the debut for the model, 850 cars were collected here, in 2014 it should already be about 3,000, and Lada Kalina Sport will collect about 600 copies and more than 100 – more powerful version, Lada Kalina NFR.

2. Exterior and interior are seriously modified

The sports "Kalina" received a number of refinement of appearance and the salon, which pretty much distanced it from the "civil" version. On the front bumper, the zones of fog lamps have changed, "diffuser" and spoiler appeared behind.

Due to the fact that the car received sports wheels and a lower landing, in general it looks more aggressively and dynamically. In the cabin, like Granta Sport, there is a red stripper of the leather steering wheel, the handle of the gearbox and the parking brake, the insertion of carbon appeared above the glove box.

3. Engine power increased by 20 hp

The technical part of Lada Kalina Sport is also completely identical to Granta Sport. The fast hatchback in the appendage to the already existing sedan is needed to expand the target audience. Plus to this – from the point of view of "driver" characteristics, it is preferable to the hatchback.

But the engine for these machines is the same: a finalized 16-valve 21126 from Lada Priora with a lightweight connecting rod-piston group, in the initial state of an outstanding 98 hp Up to 118, it was "dispersed" with the help of other camshafts with a modified profile of cams (the filling of cylinders and their purge from exhaust gas), an updated firmware of the electronic control unit and reduced inlet and release resistance.

4.Transmissions changed gear ratios

The gearbox differs from serial. When you accelerate on Lada Kalina Sport on turns over 3,000, you feel a very noticeable thrust increase, which lasts about 6,000 rpm, is not a hot hatch, but also on the usual LADA feeling little. But above or below these revolutions, LADA is recognized, because outside the specified range, the engine characteristic, in fact, remained the same.

And yet, to create a certain "pickup" on low revs, engineers have slightly finalized the gearbox "grants", replacing the regular main pair with a gear ratio of 3.7 to a new one, with a number 4.3. As a result, the fourth gear has become a straight to the intermediate, but the fifth has become almost straight, and not boosting. At the expense, this practically did not affect (in the mixed cycle, Granta Sport consumes 7.8 l / 100km), but positively affected the dynamics: 9.5 s. Before "hundreds" and 197 km / h of maximum speed. Ordinary "Lada" do not know how.

5. The suspension has become tougher and below 20 mm

Even the suspension of the serial Kalina and Granta in terms of its consumer qualities strongly evolved compared with the first generation suspension, which was standing on the "Kalina" of the 2004 sample: the castor angle increased, the stabilizer stabilizers increased, the levers became stronger. When creating sports versions, Lada Sport Unit Engineers added to this set by branded hydraulic gas-filled shock absorbers and racks, more hard and short springs and "planted" a car by 20 millimeters.

Rear appeared levers of the original design, with a negative collapse of the wheels. The suspension has become hard, but the energy intensiveness remained at the level – the car is not bad working out the irregularities of any types, remaining stable and in turns, and on the line, even if the wheels are not too smooth asphalt. Frankly does not like this suspension only sharp drops of coverage like "lying policemen."

6. Brakes received big discs, ABS and ESP

The brake system is also different from the usual Kalinovsky: the fronts are installed in front of the ventilated discs, the diameter of which rose to 280 mm, behind the rear instead of the drums also appeared discs – production TWR and a diameter of 240 mm. All this works in conjunction with the Bosch development ABS system. In addition to this system, sports "Kalina" has ESP, which stabilizes the behavior of the car when driving.

7. Station discs have the 16th diameter

The opposite Kalina has an overhead of the size of 1,432 mm (by the way, the knob remained almost regular – 1,431 mm) and in this parameter exceeds the serial Kalina (1,414 mm) and even its "sister" Granta Sport (1,420 mm). It was necessary to expand the wheelchair to give a car more stability, but also in order to fit the sports wheels of the dimension 195/50R16 in the rear arches.

When last year, the Lada Sport division began to release sports "grants", Yokohama tires and forged discs were put on the car, but now, in favor of holding a competitive price, the wheels became licensed, while retaining the old design, and the tires are now the Nankang brand, originate from Taiwan.

Note that the Yokohama rubber installation was rather an imaging step.A model that stood on Granta Sport, although there was a low profile, did not differ in the sports "holder" on the asphalt. Replacing Taiwanese tires sold, by the way, around the world and have a good balance price / quality, will not be too dramatic. For serious races, in any case, you will have to take track rubber, and for the daily exploitation of the friction properties of "Taiwanese" enough for the eyes.

8. Kalina Sport occupies an empty market niche

This item is essentially folded out of everything that is written above. The "average arithmetic" is obtained: the car is equally distant from both sports cars of eminent brands and serial products under the Lada brand. It is exactly in the middle between these two points, and for AvtoVAZ is truly cool, because all the products of the enterprise can become such as Kalina Sport.

As showed Our test drive, on the dynamics and manageability of the sports "Kalina" – a very balanced car on which you can and calmly roll in traffic, and rush around the highway, covering hundreds and thousands of kilometers, and "light" somewhere on a closed track in a track-day.

9. The model has a big potential of a daily car

With the increased dynamics of Kalina Sport, a part of its "economic" functions has retained – the borders on the sports car are no longer moderate, but the trunk and the possibility of transformation of the salon did not go anywhere. The luggage compartment from "Kalina" is small, only 240 liters (against 480 liters of "grants"), but a large opening, folding seats and a low loading height, if necessary, will allow you to carry at all sports seedlings without any problems, household appliances Or even furniture.

10. Price is cheaper than half a million rubles

AvtoVAZ sells Lada Kalina Sport through its dealers who have a special permit throughout Russia – a map of car dealers can be found on the official website Lada-Sport.ru. The price of the car is 487,000 rubles, it is only five thousand more than asking for the Granta Sport sedan. Complete set includes: air conditioning, multimedia system with 4 speakers and USB and SD slots, 4 windows, rear parking sensors, leather steering wheel, windshield heating, electric and heating mirrors, ABS and ESP systems, fog lights, light and rain sensors, Signaling, 16-inch alloy wheels and full-size spare parts.

11. AvtoVAZ sports cars will be more

Lada Kalina Sport is just the beginning. Already laid projects of other sports LADA, which will be even better and even faster. Now in AvtoVAZ, more than ever Silen Autosportual Spirit: Most recently, Pilot Rob Huff brought the racing "grant" to second place in the Argentine race of the WTCC prestigious championship, which was not in the history of the Russian (and Soviet) motor racing.

Therefore, Lada Sport in terms of applying racing technologies on mass machines will now be if not a blank-blanche, then more freedom – for sure. And the next novelty from Lada Sport, we will wait with impatience.Because those who will not have enough opportunities Kalina Sport, change to 140-horsepower Kalina NFR, which will be available for sale in the fall of 2014.

Well, now that you know everything (or almost everything) about this car, it will be easier for you to decide whether to buy it or not. Or at least it will be more convenient to participate in Internet discussions on the topic of Lada Kalina Sport, of which there are currently a great many. And if you have something to say right now, welcome to the comments.

11 facts you need to know about Lada Kalina Sport – – Car Magazine

11 facts you need to know about Lada Kalina Sport

1. The model is collected in separate production.