Truck production fell by 4% in 2018

According to Rosstat, the production of trucks in 2018 was 157 thousand units, which is less by 3.5% than a year ago.

It is worth noting that the Ural automobile plant last year began the production of cars of the Ural Next 6x4 road family. The Daimler KAMAZ Rus enterprise launched the assembly of a medium-tonnage truck of the new generation Canter TF. At the Scania plant in St. Petersburg, the release of a new generation of small-node assembly technology started. The Kaliningrad Avtotor has mastered the production of Hyundai HD65, HD35 and HD35 City commercial vehicles on a full cycle.

In addition, this company began the assembly of new models of Ford Trucks road series. And the Kaluga PSMA Rus launched the production of commercial vans Peugeot Expert and Citroen Jumpy, as well as minibuses Citroen Spacetourer and Peugeot Traveller.

The production of buses in Russia in 2018 grew by 17.5% up to 31.1 thousand units. It is worth noting that the Ulyanovsk plant "Simaz" began the production of buses based on the Isuzu chassis in the last year. And the Pavlovsk Bus Plant mastered the production of new modifications of the “Vector Next” buses: models for passengers with limited mobility, long-distance transport and gas fuel.