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OREANDA-NEWS. The company Lada Automobile GmbH, engaged in the supply of LADA cars in the German market, today announced that the new hatchback LADA XRAY will appear in showrooms in Germany in early 2017.

As the portal Wroom.ru informed, currently in the German market there are officially sold models LADA Granta, Kalina and LADA 4x4. Demand for cars of Russian brands is low but stable: for example, the last year the Germans bought 1181 "Lada" cars, and in January of 2016 it was sold 88 cars in the country.

In that case, if the LADA XRAY will appear in the German market, its main competitor will be so-platform hatchback Dacia Sandero. The basic version of this model costs in Germany from 6.9 thousand euros, and the raised version of Stepway is offered at a price of 9600 euros. Car LADA XRAY, whose sales in Russia began on February 14, costs from 589,000 rubles, which corresponds to 6.9 thousand euros at the current rate.

The president of Bo Andersson of AvtoVAZ said recently about the plans export new cars LADA Vesta and XRAY to Europe. "We are going slowly back to Europe. In December of 2015, we began to supply to Hungary LADA Granta and LADA Kalina cars, and now we sell in Hungary per month about 100 "Granta" and "Kalina" cars, - said the head of AvtoVAZ, who was cited by the agency "TASS". According to him, the company is currently in active negotiations about deliveries of LADA Vesta and XRAY to Europe. "We are currently negotiating with major European importers, which could take supplies "Vesta"and " Xray" in 5-6 European countries. We have a clear plan; all our cars are ready to fulfill the norms of the standard "Euro-6". It is only important to find the right importers", - said Bo Andersson.

He also said that AvtoVAZ plans to double its exports almost twice to Egypt in 2016. "In 2015, we sold in Egypt about 3600 cars. This year we plan to sell about 6000 cars", - said Bo Andersson. Earlier, he said that in the future AVTOVAZ plans to increase sales in Egypt up to 10 thousand cars. This year, in Egypt it is planned to begin delivery of new VAZ products - LADA Vesta and XRAY.
At the end of 2015 the largest export markets of AVTOVAZ were Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Ukraine and Germany. The part of the importers claimed that the supply of products of AVTOVAZ will be reduced due to the economic situation. Egypt, on the other hand, resumed deliveries and it intends to increase the purchase of LADA cars.