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OREANDA-NEWS. Avtotor Group intends to start serial production of the Ford Otosan trucks in Kaliningrag. Earlier, the company expected to launch assembly of Ford  trucks in March 2015.

According to Za Rulyom.RF, Avtotor assembled the first test samples of trucks out of knock-down kits of Ford Otosan company,Turkey. Earlier, the Russian company intended to launch production of trucks in March 2015. The representative of the group said Za Rulyom.RF, that the company was planning to start serial production in the nearest future. "The planned period will be announced specially," - the interviewee said. The company does not disclose possible partners for the assembly of other brands, pleading a commercial secret.

We should remind that information about possible assembly of Ford trucks in Russia was initially announced in 2011. However, then it was expected that the vehicles will be manufactured at Sollers plant in Ulyanovsk.