OREANDA-NEWS. Yesterday it was exactly three years after the official start of sales of high-capacity wagon VAZ LADA Largus. Production began three months earlier. The official ceremony of car launch in mass production was on April 4th 2012 and in the elected Russian president, Prime Minister (at the time) Vladimir Putin participated. The slogan "LADA Largus, let’s go together!" also symbolized the beginning of the production of cars of different brands on the same line of AvtoVAZ conveyor ("Three brand, one line, one team"). By the beginning of sales across the country at dealers LADA there were hundreds of motorists who want to buy a new product. For three years the Russian parc of cars already joined about 150 thousand "Largus" cars. 

Built on the platform of the B-Class, the car was very light (consumers immediately noted the good visibility as from the driver's seat, so from the rear seats). And it is capacious: even with five seats, the volume of the luggage compartment is record 560 liters. By folding the third row of seats, the owner receives a solid space for the transportation of luggage: the volume is almost two and a half cubic meters. It is able to take up to 800 kg of cargo. But at the same time Largus looks like a normal passenger car. With such nice consumer performance the price of the wagon once put it in the category of competitive: 5-seater car can be purchased at the price of 479 thousand Rubles in the simplest version of the "Standard", 7-seater "luxury" with a 16-valve engine capacity of 105 liters costs today 593.7 thousand rubles.

Until recently, the car had three versions: 5- and 7-seater passenger wagon and cargo van double. In spring of 2015 the model range of "Largus" was added with the version with the prefix "Cross".

Totally in the Russian market there were sold LADA Largus: in 2012 - 15.6 thousand units (14.6 thousand units VP and 1.0 thousand units VU), in 2013 - 63.8 thousand units (57.6 thousand units VP and 6.2 thousand units VU), in 2014 - 74.3 thousand units (65.2 thousand units VP and 9.1 thousand units VU). For six months in 2015 it was sold 19.7 thousand. units Largus VP and 3.0 thousand units VU.