Passenger car production grew by 5% in July

According to the Federal State Statistics Service, for 7 months of 2019, 894 thousand passenger cars left Russian conveyors, which is 2.1% higher than in the same period of the previous year. Meanwhile, in July, 110 thousand cars were produced, which is 5.4% higher than the previous year. It is worth noting that the Moscow Renault plant the mass production of the new Renault Arkana coupe-crossover the previous month.

The production of trucks in January-July reached 81.6 thousand units, which is 1.2% lower than the previous year. There were assembled 13.2 thousand vehicles at the Russian conveyors the previous month - an increase of 18.7% in comparison with the previous year. It is worth noting that Isuzu Rus enterprise in Ulyanovsk began the production of Isuzu Elf light-duty trucks (N-series) with a robotic gearbox.