LADA dealers complain about an acute shortage of cars

AVTOVAZ continues to experience a serious shortage of electronic components, due to which the production of LADA cars has been stopped since the last week. As the president of AVTOVAZ Nicolas Maure stated earlier, due to the forced downtime, August and September will be a difficult period for LADA sales.

The company is currently receiving orders from customers to deliver the car within 2-3 months and plans to make up for the losses in production as much as possible by the end of the year. According to the head of AVTOVAZ, the crisis with the supply of electronic components may last until the second quarter of 2022. In turn, LADA dealers call the current situation critical, comparing it with April and May 2020, when there was stagnation in sales due to a lockdown.

“If we usually received 70-80 LADA cars per a month, then not a single car was shipped in August, and only 20-30 cars are expected in September,” a representative of the LADA dealership informed the Lada.Online portal. According to him, an acute shortage makes them sell cars with "adds".

In some cases, accessories for the amount of 150 thousand rubles or more can be installed on the car. As a result, the prices for the most budget model of AVTOVAZ - LADA Granta - may exceed 1 million rubles.