OREANDA-NEWS. Sergei Chaban, Chief Federal Inspector in the Samara region of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District, informed reporters about it on April 7th. Within the ordinary meeting of AvtoVAZ with suppliers of automotive components, he visited the company in the shop, where it was almost started the production of engines Nissan H4. And he confirmed: the assembly is in full swing. "It is a completely modern engine”, - says Mr. Chaban – it is started in the company in the near future in amount of 400,000 per year, which will permit to provide a line of automobile production by 100% ...".

Recall that Nissan H4 engine with aluminum crankcase volume of 1.6 liters and output of 110 hp will be installed on new models of AvtoVAZ, including Vesta and XRay, as well as vehicles under the brands Renault and Nissan, manufactured in Russia. H4 engine Renault-Nissan alliance is produced since 2006, first at AvtoVAZ had to import it. Earlier it was reported that AvtoVAZ spent for the organization of its production on the area about 19 billion Rubles - to enhance the localization of production of its models.