Cars and equipment manufacture

General Motors Co. (NYSE:GM) and PSA Group (Paris:UG) today announced an agreement under which GM’s Opel/Vauxhall subsidiary and GM Financial’s European operations will join the PSA Group in a transaction valuing these activities at €1.3 Bn and €0.9 Bn, respectively.

"Daimler KAMAZ Rus" company sold 2118 Mercedes-Benz trucks in Russia in 2016, which is more by 40% than a year ago. Turnover by spare parts Mercedes-Benz increased by 25%, informed the press service of "KAMAZ Daimler Rus". Sales of Fuso Truck grew by 26% to 708 units.

The company Mitsubishi Motors has declassified appearance of a new compact SUV before the official premiere at the 87th International Motor Show in Geneva.

The Chinese company FAW began the production of a new crossover at the facilities of the plant "Autotor" in Kaliningrad.

Analytic agency "AUTOSTAT" conducted a study of the Russian market of new cars in January of 2017 and it made a rating of the best-selling models in the Far Eastern Federal District.

KAMAZ PTC (part of Rostec State Corporation) was awarded with the Certificate of Merit of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property for outstanding achievements in the inventive, rationalization, patent and licensing activities, as well as in the promotion of innovative projects.

 

The Rolls-Royce AE engine family has topped 70 million engine flight hours, amassing a record of dependable and efficient service across military and commercial fleets in the US and around the world.

The S-70i aircraft will become the engineering test bed for an avionics suite in co-development by Aselsan and Sikorsky for the Turkish-built T70 utility helicopter

Russian dealers of Lexus 2016 have sold corporate clients 7143 cars, which is more by 67% than in 2015.

Despite the difficult market situation in 2016 Datsun managed to keep the dealership network, which has 69 dealers throughout Russia.

"Toyota Motor" company cut prices for four key models Toyota: Camry, RAV4, Land Cruiser 200 and Corolla.

According to the agency “Auto-Dealer-SPb”, in January of 2017 St. Petersburg plants Hyundai, Nissan and Toyota have produced 25,200 cars, which is 2.4 times more than in January of 2016.

The company "Nissan Manufacturing Rus" on February 27th announced the recall of 33,275 crossovers Nissan Qashqai, produced from September 23rd, 2013, until May 26th, 2016.