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/FreeMan envisions Jalopnik climbing on roof of Lada with clubs & bucket of balls, then falling through roof & getting stuck with feet dangling just above drivers seat.

If you own a working Lada in the US, I'd say the astroturf is the lesser of the two stranges.

Oy Canada.

That looks a lot like Montreal.

this is what happens when u mix marijuana, and too many cheech and chong movies.

Combine the hippie culture that thought wrapping a car with grass was an anti-industrial statement, with the post-atomic vision of domestic perfection that wrought Astroturf, with the suppressed hatred of everything Communist, and you have this, a vehicle that hates itself so much, you don't have to. Any hatred you bring to it is completely superfluous. There are so many violently clashing memes in this one vehicle, it is its very own car wreck.

As everyone mocks; I admire. The person who "pimped his ride" with carpet knows a think or two about fit and finish.

In Soviet Russia, Grass drives on you!

@skyln95: Is there any other way?

This is one of those cases where I appreciate the effort that must have gone into the car, and I actually really like the result, but I just can't get past the sheer weirdness that it represents. I mean, who sits around their house and says, "hey Bob, you know my russian-built mini SUV? Don't you think it would look bitchin' covered in green outdoor carpet?"

It makes us want to get up on the roof and smack a bucket of golf balls off into a giant parking lot.

The golf theme seems to fit this particular situation. After all, as with the metal of every Lada product I've ever known, you're bound to get a hole in one

skyln95: Man, what is in this shit, man?

POLAЯ: Mostly Maui Waui man, but it's got some Lada in it.

"In Soviet Russia, Range Roves You!"
-nice ;)

@TwilightSentinel: It is Montreal, I see this car near my girlfriend's place all the time! ...hmm, wait, is my girl having an affair with the astroturf car man??!!! (dun dun dun!)

and if made of weed, this car would be "technically" legal in quebec too ;P

@BRDHNTR: Extraordinaire: For sure. It is so neatly fitted. I'm appalled and impressed. "Impalled", you might say.

I did this same thing to a friend's Marshall amp one time. It was not easy. I must commend these people on quality work

So which muppet is this?

@Ash78: It's less "strange" and more "communist ingenuity" - the ability to make anything run on what little can scavenge (see DOTS - Havana Edition).

Incidentally, in '95, my parents Sonota was totalled. The insurance money was the same as a new Lada Samara. Of course, I wasn't quite nine, so suggesting they buy one (I was trying to upsell them to the larger Signet Wagon) seemed completly rational. They went with a used Grand Caravan, I think mobile driving range is what would finally sell my dad on the idea.

It's a hell of a good job if you like that sort of thing.

@Maymar: I was just referencing the rarity...I've never seen a Lada anywhere in the US before.

perhaps it's not astroturf - maybe it's the pokey side of green velcro, and this is a passive safety device.

pedestrians would just stick to it in an accident instead of being thrown to their deaths.

and imagine how easy it would be to tow it home (cause you know you'll be doing that a lot). cover your dependable tow vehicle in the other side! no towbar or hitch.

totally sensible.

"It makes us want to get up on the roof and smack a bucket of golf balls off into a giant parking lot. Imagine that, it's like a mobile driving range of destruction!"

Karma has given me a terrible slice because the 2-story local driving range when I was a kid was right alongside a busy road.

I wonder how Astroturf holds up compared to Rhino-lining? Long-time Niva fan, don't know why.

@BRDHNTR: Extraordinaire: Damn straight. I wish the Messicans that installed the carpet in my house did as nice a job.

@MazdaEric: Damn you Canadians and your sensible marijuana laws! It's almost like your country wasn't founded by Puritans, or something.

pretty sure the car is sitting on St. Laurent in these photos, the side view looks like it's across from this vegan restaurant, which name i forget

@MazdaEric: Bonjour from a fellow Montreal Jalop, is the resto you're thinking of Santropol?

i remember i had a 94 cherokee and after a couple months of off roading and not washing it i started growing plants from under the bumper!

@8yearoldsdude: i was thinking it was shed cafe but i may be wrong, can't remember if that's on st. laurent or st. denis

this is so.....COOL!!
i wonder if it gets used off-road!