AvtoVAZ will start selling Lada Vesta with a new option before the end of the year.

AvtoVAZ presented the Lada Vesta 2026 model year with a keyless entry system at the Moscow Auto Show. Cars with this feature should go on sale in December of this year, Maxim Kadakov, editor-in-chief of Za Rulem magazine, said in his Telegram channel on November 14.

With the keyless entry system, the car doors unlock automatically if the key holder approaches the car. A new four-button key has also been prepared for this Vesta.

With the new option, the Vesta engine starts with a button, and you no longer need to place the key in a special area on the central tunnel.

In addition, according to Kadakov, in the version of the 2026 model year, the Vesta will expand the color palette of the body, it will be possible to order a car in a Flamenco burgundy shade. Such a metallic is already used, in particular, for painting Granta and Iskra.

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Earlier, on November 10, it was reported that AvtoVAZ had put its first Lada crossover to the test. Full-scale tests of the Azimut model are one of the key stages in preparing the model for the start of mass production, scheduled for 2026.

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