Production of passenger cars rose by 7% in October

According to the Federal State Statistics Service, for ten months of 2018, 1.3 million passenger cars left the Russian conveyors - it is more by 14.7% than during the same period of the last year. Meanwhile, in October, about 200 thousand cars were produced, which is more by 6.8% than a year ago.

It should be noted that AVTOVAZ began the mass production of off-road modification LADA XRAY Cross in Tolyatti. In addition, in October, the company introduced additional shifts on Saturdays in the LADA Granta conveyor line, as well as overtime on the B0 platform due to the growing demand for cars. Meanwhile, Nissan has completed the production of the Almera sedan in Russia, which was produced at AVTOVAZ facilities.

St. Petersburg plant Nissan has mastered the release of the updated SUV Nissan X-Trail. And in Kaliningrad Avtotor, the assembly of the updated crossover KIA Sportage has started. We also add that the 20,000th crossover Ford EcoSport came off the assembly line of the Ford Sollers plant in Naberezhnye Chelny since the start of production of the model in December of 2014. And the Vsevolozhsk plant Ford Sollers produced the 700,000th Ford Focus car since the production start in July of 2002.