Cars and equipment manufacture

GAZ has provided industrial workers with two of the provisions by the law four weeks of annual paid holiday from January 9th to 22nd, 2017. The rest two weeks will be available in July and August.

AvtoVAZ at the beginning of January of 2017 raised the recommended retail prices for the cars: basic versions of LADA became more expensive by 2-3%. This information was taken from the company's website. 

Russian dealers Volkswagen have sold in November 6973 cars - less by 8 % than a year before. For eleven months of 2016 sales of Volkswagen in Russia were 66,632 cars, which is less by 5% than the indicator for the same period of last year.

Yesterday was the official day of rest at the Dakar-2017, and recently it has became known today that the seventh special stage of the rally-marathon between the points of La Paz and Uyuni was halved because of the rains in Bolivia.

The Nissan Altima and the Nissan Rogue each earned top-honors from the National Association of Minority Automotive Dealers (NAMAD). The Altima is recognized as the top-selling vehicle among African American consumers in 2016. 

The new 2017 Nissan Rogue Sport, which is designed to expand the audience for Nissan’s top-selling Rogue crossover when it goes on sale this spring, is set to make its auto show debut this morning at the North American International Auto Show.

AUTOSTAT Analytic agency carried out a research on the prices of new passenger cars, which covered all the automakers, officially represented in the Russian market. According to the research, 10 of them changed their prices in the second half of December.

No crashes or injuries have been reported related to this issue American Honda will voluntarily recall approximately 634,000 Odyssey minivans from the 2011-2016 model years to install additional springs and brackets onto the slide mechanism for the outboard second row seats, free of charge. 

Volvo Cars, the premium car maker, has announced that it will introduce Skype for Business, Microsoft’s leading collaborative productivity app, to its new 90 Series cars. Volvo Cars is the first carmaker to launch such an in-car productivity tool.

From January 1st, 2017 for the issuance of the passport the vehicle must be equipped with a device for call of emergency services "ERA-GLONASS".

Sergey Kogogin, General Director of KAMAZ, told about the main events and results of 2016 in his interview to Vesti KAMAZa.

Mazda Production and Sales Results for November 2016 (Flash Report)

"GAZ Group" has delivered 22 vans "Gazel NEXT" for administrations of municipalities of the Moscow region. All vehicles are delivered in cargo-modification and intended for the work of the service centers, repair crews, tools and transportation equipment, informed the press service of "GAZ Group".

AVTOVAZ plans to increase the exports by 50% up to 30,000 vehicles in 2017, informed the company's president, Nicolas Maure.

The plant ZIL Moscow assembled the last truck in the history - it was ZIL-43276T. The vehicle was already produced in mid-September, when the ZIL celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding, but it was announced only now.