AVTOVAZ continues to produce incomplete LADA cars

AVTOVAZ in 2022 and 2023 continues to produce incomplete LADA cars, later assembling them as the missing components are delivered, admitted the company's president Maxim Sokolov. Problems with components may prevent the automaker from fulfilling its stated plans for 2023 to increase the production up to more than 400,000 vehicles, the Vedomosti newspaper writes. According to the head of AVTOVAZ, in 2022 the plant produced up to 10,000 incomplete LADA cars, but at the very end of the year they were able to complete them with the necessary parts. During the first two days of production, a certain number of incomplete vehicles rolled off the assembly line of AVTOVAZ.

Recall that in the context of a break in logistics chains, AVTOVAZ, together with Russian suppliers, was able to replace more than 200 positions of components and materials blocked for delivery. Car production was suspended in the spring of 2022, but already in early June, AVTOVAZ resumed the production of a simplified LADA Granta, in mid-July a three-door LADA Niva Legend SUV in a special configuration returned to the assembly line, and a month later the production of Niva Travel model was resumed. Since the end of August 2022, AVTOVAZ car assembly complex in Togliatti has switched to a 6-day working week, in connection with which more than 1,000 new employees have been hired by the company.

By the end of 2022, the production rate on the two lines was 24,000 vehicles per month, which made it possible to satisfy the demand in the Russian car market.