Car production fell by 25.7% in January

OREANDA-NEWS. According to Rosstat, in January of 2015 it was made 85.1 thousand cars in the Russian assembly lines – it is less by 25.7% than a year before.

The leader of the Russian car industry, AVTOVAZ, produced about 20,000 vehicles the last month (-20%). In addition, the Izhevsk plant produced about 3.5 million vehicles (the growth is 4.2 times), including 2.9 thousand Lada Granta and 500 Nissan Sentra sedans.

With regard to production of foreign cars, it was started the production of the second model Datsun on the capacities of AvtoVAZ in January - hatchback mi-Do. It should be also noted that the production line of Renault in Moscow produced the one millionth vehicle since the opening of the company in April of 2005.