OREANDA-NEWS. According to Rosstat, for the first nine months of 2015 the Russian assembly lines made 956,000 cars – it is less by 24.5% than a year before. Meanwhile, in September, it was produced about 113 thousand cars, which is less by 11.1% than a year ago.

It is worth noting that the last month AVTOVAZ stopped indefinitely to produce cars Lada Priora, which will be resumed in case of orders from dealers. And at the facilities of the enterprise “Lada Izhevsk" it was started the production of the new sedan Lada Vesta. With regard to the production of foreign cars, the company "Volkswagen Group Rus" resumed the assembly of Volkswagen and Skoda cars at the facilities of GAZ, which has been suspended for a month due to a drop in demand in the Russian market.

Production of trucks in January-September was 89.8 thousand units, which is less by 20.3% than a year ago. Last month, the Russian assembly produced 12.6 thousand trucks – it is less by 4.2% than a year before.

It is worth noting that the company "MB Trucks Vostok" resumed the production of medium-Mitsubishi Fuso Canter in September, which was suspended in April of this year because of demand falling for commercial vehicles. Meanwhile, KAMAZ the last month canceled a part of the previously announced downtime due to the increase in orders for commercial vehicles.

Bus production in Russia for the first nine months of 2015 fell by 14.8% to 25.8 thousand units. Therewith, in September bus plants produced about 3.4 thousand units – it is less by 22.5% than a year before.