Foton intends to localize the car production in Russia

Foton Motor intends to localize the production of Foton Tunland pickup trucks and Foton S100 and S120 series trucks in Russia. This is stated in the reporting of the Foton Motor Company, but the name of the car plant with which negotiations are underway on contract assembly is not disclosed. Meanwhile, the cabins of the Chinese automaker Foton are equipped with Valdai Next medium-duty trucks, the mass production of which was launched in 2021 at the facilities of the Gorky Automobile Plant.

The press service of GAZ did not comment on the question of whether the localization of Foton models at the plant in Nizhny Novgorod is being discussed. The Foton model range in the Russian market is represented by medium-duty trucks of the S series (S085 with a gross weight of 8.5 tons, S100 - 10 tons, S120 - 12 tons), as well as an Auman tractor. Meanwhile, Foton left the passenger car segment in Russia last year: following the Tunland pickup truck, the Sauvana SUV, which was produced at the facilities of the Avtotor Kaliningrad plant in 2018-2019, also left the market.