OREANDA-NEWS. GAZ Group enterprise assembled the 10,000th Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Classic. The model was put into production in September 2013. According to the company, the Sprinter Classic is the most popular light commercial vehicle in the portfolio of Mercedes-Benz in the Russian market. The record number of 6,600 vehicles was sold in 2014, press service of Mercedes-Benz Rus reports.

We should remind that the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Classic is manufactured in Russia by GAZ Group under contract assembly agreement. Mercedes-Benz Vans invested €100 million in production equipment and marketing. Local production created about 1,000 new jobs at enterprises in Nizhny Novgorod and Yaroslavl. Today, over 40% of the parts for the Sprinter Classic are produced in Russia.