Lada Iskra

History

2025

Start of sales of LADA Iskra with the Yandex Auto platform and Alice

Russia In July 20, 2025, it will be possible to buy car LADA Iskra with a built-in platform. Yandex.Auto Yandex Services are available in it that will be useful on the way:,, Navigator Music Books,, as Browser well. AI Assistant Alice You can control them through the display of the car or - this by voice eliminates the need to pick up smartphone and distract from the road. Yandex announced this on July 18, 2025.

Alice in Yandex Auto knows how to call a subscriber from a list of contacts. She also helps manage other Yandex services available in Yandex Auto. The AI assistant will build a route to home or work, warn about traffic jams, find the nearest parking lot, include a playlist with your favorite music, put an audiobook, tell the latest news and entertain children on the trip - for example, put cartoons on them.

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Фото: Yandex

So that the driver can quickly get to the desired place, the Navigator in Yandex Auto paves the optimal route, taking into account the situation on the roads, traffic jams, incidents and data from cameras. In addition, the platform warns about speed limits, shows the location of parking lots and their cost, and also displays the speed of the car based on GPS and CAN bus data. Yandex Auto also works with offline maps - this allows you to plan a route, even if there is no Internet.

The platform opens access to tens of millions of music tracks by Russian and foreign artists. In Yandex Music, you can choose your playlist or any of the thousands of others - for example, the 100 most popular tracks in the service for July 2025. The user can also turn on the "My Wave" system of personal recommendations, and it will select compositions according to his preferences.

A library of audiobooks of various genres is available in the Yandex Auto platform - from fiction bestsellers to educational literature. To make it easier to find the right one, books can be selected by genre, novelty, popularity and storyteller. And with the Browser built into the platform, you can visit sites and watch videos.

Yandex Auto works via mobile Internet, access to which is provided by a modem built into LADA Iskra. All platform services are synchronized with the Yandex ecosystem using Yandex ID. Thanks to this, the driver through the display of the car gains access to his saved addresses, personal playlists, selected tracks, audiobooks, sites.

LADA Iskra will be presented in three body versions at once: sedan, wagon and wagon SW Cross. The price of the car starts at 1,249,000 rubles - this is the cost of the sedan version in the Comfort configuration with a 1.6 liter (90 hp) engine and a manual gearbox.

Start of production

On April 19, 2025, AvtoVAZ JSC began industrial production of a new Lada Iskra car with fully Russian electronics and a localization level of more than 90%. The total investment in localization and launch of the new model amounted to ₽40 billion, which made it possible to create a car on a technologically independent platform.

According to the press service of AvtoVAZ, the solemn launch of production took place on the 55th anniversary of the release of the first car at the plant in Togliatti. As part of the ceremony, the first copies of the car came off the assembly line - a sedan in red and a station wagon in blue. Together with them, a white VAZ-2101 went to the guests, which symbolized the colors of the state flag of Russia and emphasized the continuity of generations of the domestic auto industry.

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Фото: Lada

The plant in Togliatti is designed to produce up to 150 thousand Lada Iskra cars per year. To create a new model, AvtoVAZ adapted the modular CMF-B platform developed by Renault and Nissan, completely replaced electronic components with Russian counterparts and added about 400 new parts, ensuring technological independence of production.

President of AvtoVAZ JSC Maxim Sokolov stressed that in less than three years the company has managed to ensure the localization of the entire lineup of more than 90%. All parts are manufactured either at the factory itself, from supplier partners, or in friendly countries that are safe in terms of supply chains.

On the first day of production, 12 Lada Iskra cars were assembled in various modifications. The model is available in three body styles: sedan, station wagon and Cross station wagon. The car is equipped with three types of power units:

• A 90 hp 1.6-litre engine with a 5-speed manual transmission.
• 1.6-liter engine with 106 hp with a 6-speed manual transmission.
• 1.6-liter engine with 106 hp with automatic transmission.

The official start of sales of Lada Iskra is scheduled for July 20, 2025 - on the birthday of AvtoVAZ^[1]

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