Auto Service by Konela, Finland 1966

Konela (Oy Konela Ab) is a joint Soviet-Finnish company created for the sale and maintenance of Soviet passenger cars (later also trucks and buses) in Finland and other Nordic countries.

The company was founded in 1948 as a joint-stock company, the founder on the Soviet side was the Foreign Trade Association "Autoexport".

The first models supplied to Finland through the joint venture were the Moskvich-400 (since 1949), GAZ-M-20 "Pobeda", and the 2.5-ton GAZ-51 truck. Subsequently, the list of cars offered included almost all models produced in the USSR, as well as a wide range of tractors, mainly wheeled.

In 1965, the company sold 6,500 passenger cars, and in 1975, sales peaked with the introduction of the LADA [Zhiguli], amounting to 12,647 units. By 1981, the total number of Soviet passenger cars sold in Suomi amounted to over 300,000 units. Many Soviet cars supplied to Finland were modifications specially developed for the local market. Beginning in the 1970s, the Konela company itself began to remake imported Soviet models, adapting them for the European market. In 1979, the Finnish side, in turn, developed for the USSR for the first time an ambulance based on the RAF-2203 "Latvija" minibus. In the late 1980s, small-scale convertibles produced by Konela, based on the Niva and Samara, entered the European market. From 1996 to autumn 1998, small-scale assembly of a tuning version of the VAZ-2109 under the LADA Samara Baltic brand was organized at the Finnish Valmet plant in the city of Uusikaupunki.

The Konela company ceased its commercial activities in 2003, and Finnish partners founded the trading company Delta Motor Group Oy on its basis.