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OREANDA-NEWS. The Izhevsk automobile plant, which should start serial production of  the Lada Vesta on 25 September 2015, is planning to assemble about 1,600 vehicles, which will be shipped to dealers. This information was given by general director of the Izhevsk automobile plant Mikhail Ryabov, who also added, that assembly of the Pilot-1(pilot lot models) would start after May Holiday. 

The head of IzhAvto also said that the first Lada Vesta would be equipped with 16-valve 1.6-liter 106 hp engines, which are used in the current Lada models. The Lada Vesta will cost within 500,000 – 550,000 roubles, but it can change with rouble exchange rate.  

We should remind that IzhAvto is planning to produce 5,000 sedans of the new model till the end of 2015.