AvtoVAZ will start delivery of commercial Lada Granta in November

In November AvtoVAZ will start serial production and delivery of commercial Lada Granta, the new low-cost sedan will come on sale in December 2011. 

As AvtoVAZ press center informed AUTOSTAT agency, about 80% of the cars will be assembled with Norma package and 20% - with the cheapest Standard version. The first commercial lots of the Lada Granta will be available with five colours: Granta, Portwine, White cloud, Riesling and Cosmos. The prices for the Lada Granta Standard start from 229,000 rouble. The Granta with average package Norma will cost 256,000 roubles.

We should remind that in October AvtoVAZ started preproduction assembly of the Lada Granta and till the end of the month, the enterprise should produce 250 sedans of this model. Most cars of this lot will be delivered to the dealers for demonstration and test drives.

The new AvtoVAZ car is designed on the Lada Kalina platform, however about 400 original car components, including modernized front and rear suspensions as well as a new engine, were designed specially for the Lada Granta. The Lada Granta Standard and Norma will replace the Lada Classic and the Lada Samara sedan. The Granta with Top package will become an adequate replacement for the Lada Kalina sedan. In the future the range of packages will be extended due to the new equipment. According to the information given by AvtoVAZ press center to AUTOSTAT agency, the Lada Granta Lux will come on sale in the second half of 2012.

The project is provided for the production of 150 Lada Granta per year. AvtoVAZ is planning to reach this capacity next year. According to AvtoVAZ, the plan can be corrected during the year depending on the market situation.