By the guys from the Lada design department, Honda specialists visited Lada back in 90s, when the design of the Niva 2 was in the development stage. To the russians surprise in 1.5 years they saw 1 generation HRV pretty similar to their design. See the Lada's sketch at the top and the HRV at the bottom The complete story is by the link, use google translate to translate from Russian to Italian https://www.kolesa.ru/article/plagiat-shou-pravda-li-chto-honda-hr-v-skopirovana-s-nivy