AUTOSTAT analytic agency presents the report “Truck component and spare part market in Russia”, covering results of 2017.
09 july more infoFord Mondeo sedan has received a technological upgrade aimed at the safety improving of the car and improving of the intelligent driver assistance systems. People can order updated Ford Mondeo at all official Ford dealers in Russia.
05 julymore infoThe experts of the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT" made a rating of the best-selling new cars in Russia in 2018. The leader of this rating was KIA Rio, which at the same time ranked the third in the list of the most popular models in the market as a whole.
30 april 2013
AvtoVAZ will start to install a new engine VAZ-21127 on Lada cars since May of this year. The production of this power aggregate was started at the plant, said the director of mechanical assembly production of company, Vladimir Bokk
30 april 2013
The production of Volkswagen Jetta sedan, which received a new version, designed specifically for the Russian market, was launched at the facilities of the Gorky Plant. The crossover Skoda Yeti is being produced in the line “Volkswagen Group Rus” in Nizhny Novgorod. The total investment in equipment and infrastructure was EUR 300 million.
30 april 2013
“Toyota Bank” presents a new loan product with a guarantee of the redemption value of the car – “RAV4 Garant”. Sales of the new generation of model Toyota RAV4 were launched in Russia on February 23rd, 2013. The offer is valid until June 14th, 2013.
30 april 2013
The Company Nissan is a special version of the Russian business-class sedan Nissan Teana, which is characterized by exclusive exterior design elements.
30 april 2013
Volkswagen has announced prices for the new configuration of sedan Jetta, which is now available. Car of Conceptline version with a 1.6-liter petrol engine 105 HP and 5-speed manual transmission will cost RUB 648,000
30 april 2013
Taganrog car plant, which started sales of the new four-door coupe Aquila in March, is going to produce a two-door version of the car before the end of the year.
29 april 2013
According to the results of the first quarter of 2013 the net income of KAMAZ by RAS decreased 2.4 times to RUB 644,096 million from RUB 1,563 billion for the same period of the previous year.
29 april 2013
According to the results of the first quarter of 2013, the total sales of cars in the premium segment grew by 12% in compare with the previous year
29 april 2013
There will be a modernization of production and infrastructure in the Izhevsk car plant at the beginning of May. It is connected with the launch of models of AvtoVAZ and alliance Renault-Nissan, the start of which is planned to be in 2014
29 april 2013
AvtoVAZ increased sales by RAS 8% to RUB 43 billion in the first quarter of 2013. The growth of gross profit was 6% - to RUB 3.9 billion. Profit on sales decreased by RUB 0.1 billion to RUB 0.6 billion in compare with the same period of the last year
29 april 2013
The share of crossovers and SUVs in sales of passenger cars in Russia was 36% in the first quarter of 2013, while the figure was 30.3% a year ago.
29 april 2013
Russian UAZ dealers start sales of limited configuration of SUV UAZ Hunter Welcome at the price of RUB 399,000. SUVs are equipped with a petrol engine with a capacity of 128 HP, developed jointly with Bosch company.
29 april 2013
KAMAZ is going to increase sales of LPG vehicles three times in 2013, said the General Director of KAMAZ, Sergey Kogogin. According to him, KAMAZ has contracts to supply more than 1,000 units with LPG this year, the company sold 300 trucks with LPG the last year.
29 april 2013
Minsk plant have troubles with sales of products in the Russian market and it explains them by Russia's transition to Euro-4
29 april 2013
AvtoVAZ plans to convert the second line of the main assembly line to a single-shift operation from July 1st. There are produced Lada Samara and Priora cars in this line, their production will be reduced by half as a result of changes in the working mode.
29 april 2013
The criminal case was opened with respect to the general director of “NT Auto” (the new entity of bankrupt Taganrog Automobile Plant), Dimitry Bizyukov, prosecuted for illegal business.
29 april 2013
An international conference “Oil and fuel of CIS: towards the high-quality oil and engine fuels”, organized by the “Global Business Club”, will be held in Moscow on May 21-23rd.
29 april 2013
Russia and Belarus have not reached a compromise about the joint holding company “Rosbelavto” on the basis of MAZ and KAMAZ.
25 april 2013
Czech carmaker Skoda will start the production of new, upgraded model sedan Superb at the end of June. As the press secretary, Joseph Skoda Balazs, informed, the company plans to produce about 110,000 cars of a new model that was presented in Motor Show in Shanghai in 2013.
25 april 2013
Ministry of Industry and trade analyzed the situation in the automotive market and it calculated how much money the scrappage fee will bring to the budget. According to forecasts, importers and private carriers will pay RUB 440.5 billion between 2013 and 2020. Most of the funds will be obtained from a fee on passenger cars and commercial vehicles – they will bring RUB 423 billion.
25 april 2013
GAZ Group gave to GUP “Mostransavto” the first ten buses GOLAZ-5251 “Voyage” of long-distance class. Contracts with GUP “Mostransavto” for the delivery of 709 buses GOLAZ worth more than RUB 6 billion were signed by GAZ Group at the beginning of this year
25 april 2013
Russian car production will grow, but only slightly, in the best case in April and for the first four months of this year. This opinion was expressed by the experts that were interviewed by “Prime”. At the same time, some experts remarked that the production can be also reduced following the decline in sales.
25 april 2013
Sales of passenger cars in Kazakhstan, according to the Association of Kazakhstan AutoBusiness, increased by 89% to 25,383 units in the first quarter. In this case, the national automakers increased sales by 114% to 5,926 vehicles.
25 april 2013
Company Ford of Europe plans to increase the production of Kuga by 10% (8,000 units) this year to meet the growing demand for the new crossover. The automaker is increasing the production at its Spanish plant in Valencia and it expects that the annual production of the new Kuga in Europe will reach 100 million units in 2013 for the first time
24 april 2013
According to the agency “Auto-Dealer-SPb”, the St. Petersburg carmakers Toyota, GM, Nissan and Hyundai produced 100,300 cars in January-March, which is more by 9% than in the first quarter of 2012.
24 april 2013
“GAZ Group” has developed a gas modification of the middle class bus of intercity destination KAVZ-4238.
24 april 2013
Plant “Mazda Sollers Manufacturing RUS” started to work in three shifts instead of two due to the expansion of production.
24 april 2013
The production plan of cars of Renault-Nissan Alliance in AvtoVAZ will be about 70,000 cars in 2013.
24 april 2013
Anti-dumping investigation concerning imports of light commercial vehicles in the countries of the Customs Union (CU) can turn a sharp increase in fees.
24 april 2013
Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, instructed to check if it was appropriate to re-run the program of interest rates subsidizing on car loans for citizens.
23 april 2013
According to the Customs Service, the Russian plants exported totally 113,000 passenger cars in 2012, the customs value of which was $ 988.8 million. The volume of export rose by 77.4% the last year or by 49,3 million units.
23 april 2013
According to the agency Auto-Dealer-Yekaterinburg, it was sold 21,100 new cars and light commercial vehicles (1%) in Yekaterinburg in the first quarter of 2013. In March, the city sold 8,182 cars, which is less by 3% than in the first month of spring of the last year. Last negative dynamics of sales in Yekaterinburg was fixed in December.
23 april 2013
GM-AvtoVAZ will stop the production of Chevrolet Niva SUVs from April 29th to May 12th, inclusively.
23 april 2013
French carmaker Renault will invest in Russian car projects up to RUB 21 billion (EUR 500 million) until 2020. The funds will be invested in the production projects in Moscow, Togliatti, Izhevsk, first of all, in the production of cars, the representative of Renault informed the newspaper “Vedomosti”, without the disclosing of details.
23 april 2013
Yesterday sales of new small-scale models of Lada Granta Sport, the production of which was launched by AvtoVAZ and LADA Motor Sport Technologies at the end of February, were begun in the Russian market. The suggested retail price of new car is RUB 443,000.
23 april 2013
AvtoVAZ will start the mass production of new Lada Kalina on May 16th and the start of sales is planned to be in June of 2013. The model will go on sale in the “luxury” vehicle set, with 16-valve engine, manual and automatic transmission. As the project will develop, the family will be replenished with variants of “norm” and “standard”, the “luxury” models will have new options
23 april 2013
The Russian car market after the historic peak in 2012 began to lose its positions for the first months of 2013 and the level of exports of cars in the foreign markets also began to decrease, said the chairman of the Expert Council of the State Duma committee on industry, the innovative development of the automotive industry and vehicles, Alfiya Kogogina.
23 april 2013
At the end of 2012 the primary market of automotive batteries in Russia (deliveries to assembly plants) was 2.31 million batteries, which is a 10.7% increase on a YOY basis.
23 april 2013
Renault-Nissan Alliance has reduced the production plan of its models in AvtoVAZ by a third, to 70,000 vehicles. Earlier the orders of alliance were approximately 100,000 vehicles of a total production, which is 800,000 cars and vehicle sets
23 april 2013
Parc of passenger cars in Russia increased 2 times for the last fifteen years - from 17.6 million units in 1997 to 36.9 million units by the beginning of 2013. The share of foreign cars in the parc of Russian Federation increased 2 times for nine years
19 april 2013
In 2012, the dynamics of deals in the automotive industry has slowed down. The total number of deals in branch decreased by 18% in compare with 2011 and the value of deals decreased by 33%, estimated representatives of PwC.
19 april 2013
The line of “green” cars of brand BMW that got the index i will appear in the Russian market. As the president of BMW Group Russia, Wolfgang Shlimme, informs, at the present time the company determines the number of dealers, which will be able to sell these cars and how many customers will be willing to buy them.
19 april 2013
The German company Opel intends to upgrade the motor scale by 80% until 2016. By that time, it will be presented 13 new engines that will become more powerful, more economical and eco-friendly than the current units, but their volume will be smaller.
19 april 2013
U.S. carmaker General Motors launched the production of engine for the Chevrolet Spark EV at the plant near Baltimore (Maryland), USA. Total investment in the project of electric engine was $ 250 million.
19 april 2013
The company “Toyota Motor” is launching a new certification program for used cars “Lexus Select”. The program “Lexus Select” was launched on April 17th of 2013 in 10 dealerships in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Perm. Until the end of 2013 it is planned to expand the network of authorized dealers Lexus that offer this service in Russia to 15 centers.
19 april 2013
Troika Dialog Investments Ltd sold all of its 20.53% shares of AvtoVAZ to the Dutch Alliance Rostec Auto BV - the joint venture of “Rostech” and Renault-Nissan.
18 april 2013
According to “Auto-Dealer-SPb”, it was sold 45,214 new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (+1%) in St. Petersburg in the first quarter of 2013. In March, 18,951 cars were sold in the city, which is less by 1% than it was the last year.
18 april 2013
Sales of light commercial vehicles in Russia were 14,242 units in March, which is equal the last year’s level. Sales of light commercial vehicles grew by 3% to 35,709 vehicles for the first three months of 2013. At the same time two third (67.6%) of sales were LCV of domestic brands, the rest 32.4% vehicles were foreign ones.
18 april 2013
GAZ Group will deliver for GUP “Mosavtotransavto” – the biggest carrier of Moscow region – 57 buses LIAZ-5292 of big class. The total price of contract exceeds RUB 280 million.
18 april 2013
Russian car market, which fell in the previous month at first since March of 2010, fell in the third place in the “European League”.