More ground clearance, lower price and less frequent maintenance visits
Introducing the Lada Vesta with a 1.8 EVO engine and a CVT, AvtoVAZ touched on the topic of competitors. The company believes that the Lada Vesta has many advantages in comparison with the Chinese.
Among the competitors of «Vesta» AvtoVAZ sees the BAIC U5 Plus (2.115 million rubles, CVT), Changan Alsvin (1.75 million rubles, «robot»), Omoda S5 (2.25 million rubles, CVT) and even Geely Emgrand produced in Kaliningrad (2.17 million rubles), which is equipped with a conventional 6-speed automatic transmission.
What is better than the Lada Vesta? For example, a lower price, which starts from 1.589 million rubles. True, even in the «Chinese» are better equipped, so it’s more appropriate to compare the configurations of the «Vesta» more expensive: Life — 1.678 million rubles, Enjoy — 1.744 million rubles, Techno — 1.886 million rubles.
Other advantages of the Lada Vesta — dynamics (11.3 s to 100 km/h), trunk volume (480 liters), ground clearance 178 mm. Finally, AvtoVAZ also lists the frequency of maintenance as an advantage: the CVT Lada Vesta is required to call for service once every 15 thousand km, while the «Chinese» service interval 10 thousand km.
By the way, today details appeared on how to service the Lada Vesta variator.