Baxter's Top 10 Niva Sites

Baxter's Top 10 Niva sites.

1 Lada UK Forum
Plenty of Niva disscussion; UK based, but plenty of international participation, especially from the antipodes. Highly reccomended. Also the home of Lada parts dealer for UK.

2 Difflock
The other English speaking Niva forum; caters for other breads as well, and many general off-road driving topics.

3 Niva.ru FAQ
English & Spanish translations of Russian FAQs; very handy and hopefully expanding.

4 Niva Adventure
Lots of mods and forum (French, some English content)

5 Cloggy's Niva Site
Archive of the original 2 litre Fiat Conversion site, Toyota power-steer, and more. The site that got me into Nivas all those years ago...

6 Navigatsioo Nitehnika
Estonian Niva crew did who what looks like a cross between trials & orienteering; in Estonian of course, but a very good gallery, and it looks like they had a load of fun.

7 Parque 4x4
A comprehensive Niva site in Spanish, plently of tech, mods, & good images; They're into long range & extreme Niva driving.

8 Turbo Nutter / Gadgetboy's site
GB's on-going build & mods diary, includes full Niva 1600 & 1700 manuals, parts catalogue, and other handy bits-and-bobs.

9 TurboNiva
Sean Huffman's Canadian turbo Niva project, includes manuals, and other useful bits & bobs. Archive of old versions of the site here

10 Niva Nuts
Archive of an Australian site about a highly modded Niva for desert etc trips.

And the runners up...

General:

La web del Lada Niva - comprehensive Spainish Niva site, includes Niva on portals, racing Nivas, V8 Nivas and more, including the Paris-Dakar Nivas. Incidently it seems Nivas were homologated for international racing right up until at least April 2006!

Nivamania - another comprehensive Spanish Niva site, plenty of competition Nivas. Also appears to be dead (archive of latest version here).

Niva clubs & forums - Over 50 Niva clubs, from Argentina to New Zealand.

After-market goodies:

Lada-Sport - LSDs, low-ratio TC and other useful bits. Germany (English version available).

Niva Shop .ru - Every imaginable Niva accessory, rockcrawler TC gear set, hot cams, 4.44 diffs, bodykits, and much much more. But exporting from Russia can be a fraught process.

Lada World - Danish E-shop that exports Russian sourced Niva accesories worldwide.

Apoio 4x4 - Brazilian Niva accessories; engine upgrade kits, lift kit, interior dress-up, dizzy wading kit (Portuguese).

Natal 4x4 - Another Brazilian Niva accessories shop; snorkel, double CV centre joint, VW engine adapter kit, lift kit, body kits, etc and home of the famous X-Niva (Portugese).

Lada Italia - Italian aftermarket for the Niva, power-steer, air-con, body-kits, etc. Also includes info and avi movies on the Ferrari V8 powered off-road racing Niva.

DIY:

Russian Niva Club FAQ - lots and lots of info, mods etc (Russian).

Excossack / John's site - Downloads for the Hoodoo 2" lift and alternator relocation bracket, and home of the Niva Register.

Random:

Viva! Niva! - No not a GM-Lada joint venture! It looks like a blog style site of a Japanese Niva fan - no idea what it says to be honest, but it looks kinda' interesting. It also looks like it's now gone - archive here.

World Niva Club - Not actually a club as such, but lots of older clipped tech/mods stuff. Appears to have gone down - here's the archive of the last working version.

On-line translators:
Cut and paste the URL into either PROMT, BabelFish or Translation Guide dot com (includes most languages Niva info is in). UPDATE : Google Language Tools now also seems to cover all necessary languages.

Don't know what language a site is?
Try this language identifer.

Translator tips:
"W-Niva" translated from Russian refers to the Mk2 or Chevolet Niva.
Niva often translates as "field" or "cornfield" from Russian.
If you start reading about Hippopotamus' & Crocodiles, a Hippo is Russian slang for the 3-door Niva, and Croc for the 5-door.

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