Chevrolet Niva

The Chevrolet Niva, officially the Chevrolet Lada Niva Travel, is a car made by the company GM-AvtoVAZ since 23 September 2002 and intended only for the Russian market and the other states of the CIS. It is in fact a five door Lada Niva Legend whose platform and mechanics were kept and largely modernised and which was turned into an SUV, the VAZ-2131. It was the best selling SUV on the Russian market in 2004 and 2005, and in 2006 it was named off-road vehicle of the year in the compact SUV class. The first generation has a 1.7 litre petrol engine with fuel injection, a version with the 1.8 litre Opel Family 1 engine was launched for the 2007 model year and stopped in April 2008, and in 2009 the studio Bertone gave it a light restyling. A second generation concept was shown at the Moscow motor show in August 2014. After AvtoVAZ bought General Motors out of the joint venture in December 2019, the car joined the Lada range in 2020 and was renamed Niva Travel.