OREANDA-NEWS. According to Rosstat, for six months in 2015 the Russian assembly plants descended 679,000 cars - a 24.4% decrease to the previous year. Meanwhile, in June, it was produced about 116 500 vehicles, which is less by 27.2% than a year ago.

It is worth noting, at the end of June at the Kaluga automobile plant "PSMA Rus", it was decided to extend the idle mode on the line of sedans (Peugeot 408 and Citroen C4) until August 2nd. Idle was started on April 27th and it was to be finished on July 10th. Kaliningrad plant "Avtotor" began in mid-June the production of the updated model of Hyundai i40. The company has produced in March of 2013 more than 16.5 million vehicles of the model i40 of the last model year. And this year, Hyundai expects to sell in 2015 about 7000 of the updated i40. GM stopped at the end of June stopped the assembly of Cadillac at the plant in St. Petersburg.

Production of trucks in January-June was 57.9 thousand units, which is less by 22.5% than a year ago. Last month, the Russian plants assembled 10.8 thousand trucks - it is less by 26.6% than a year earlier.

Production of buses in Russia for six months of 2015 fell by 15.6% to 15.8 thousand units. At the same time in June, the bus plants produced 2.8 thousand vehicles – it is less by 23.8% than a year before.