Chevrolet Niva Trophy was successfully tested by Africa

Earlier this year, despite the fact that urgently had to change the itinerary due to cancellation of the rally "Paris-Dakar", caused by the complexities of the international situation, held a "Russian breakthrough 2008". This is the second rally-raid-made cars to Africa, organized by LLC "Industrial Group" (Chairman of the organizing committee of the project and General Manager - Gotovtsev Vyacheslav). At this time in the race along with a complete set of LADA 4x4 «News Hunter» involved two cars Chevrolet Niva, produced GM-AVTOVAZ dealer and Togliatti LLC "Crumb-Service." On the aims and results of path manager told Experimental and Advanced Engineering Directorate for Engineering GM-AVTOVAZ Vadim Klassen in an interview with "seven miles". "Our goal was to conduct accelerated life tests to solve several technical problems for a standard car and including a complete set to determine the Chevrolet Niva Trophy. Therefore, the cars were equipped with a number of new sites that we wanted to check. In particular, it is to eliminate leakage of oil from the transmission and the optimization of the Trophy: snorkel, locking differential, refine your gear ratios and transmission characteristics of the dampers. The tests took place both in winter and in the African context. Well, the cars passed them and went back to its best without any breakdowns. All sites that we wanted to test, behaved with dignity. Able to use all the extra equipment the car, including the winch and the hijack. " Unfortunately, the route was somewhat curtailed due to the fact that canceled the rally "Paris - Dakar." The organizers planned to wind around 60 square kilometers, and it came a little over 20 thousand. "Nevertheless, it is also the result, because the machines are visited by all sorts of weather conditions ranging from winter not only in Russia but also Turkey, when the thermometer passes the mark fell to minus 30 degrees, and ending with the African heat and the rain - Vadim Klassen said. - Now we will examine and analyze the results. For a number of decisions that we fully satisfied, we are talking about introducing them into production. The production of Chevrolet Niva Trophy will be actively discussed the results of run. " In order to further endurance test vehicle under different climatic conditions, GM-AVTOVAZ specialists are considering run for Central Asia, to overcome the sands and mountains. "Mileage - this is a very good tool for testing the car, quickly get results", - Vadim Klassen said.