Lada Niva Flaws: Safety, Trunk Access and Door Locks

There, I shut it.

How do you open it? But remember that handle in the back of the cabin?

Yeah, it opens the trunk. So you have to climb into the car, fold the seat down and pull that handle properly.

There, it's open. This is such a pain. And with that, let's move on to the five drawbacks of the Lada Niva.

The car's design hasn't changed much since the seventies, and its safety level hasn't either.

Exactly one airbag. Not here, not there.

For some reason, there's just this one airbag right here.

I don't even know why it's here. Basically, safety is so bad that the Russian equivalent of Euro NCAP crash tests gave the Niva a whopping zero points.

Zero. The Russians rated their own car zero points.

How depressing is that! This car doesn't have central locking, so you'll have to unlock every door with a key.

Now I'll go around to the other side. Awesome!