Information about this appeared earlier, but has now been confirmed by sources in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
The factory southwest of Moscow (in Kaluga) is still owned by the Wolfsburg car group. Shortly after the start of the CBO, production there was stopped.
In the fall of 2009, Martin Winterkorn, then CEO of Volkswagen, invited Vladimir Putin to a party at the company’s local factory. The president of Russia arrived by helicopter and praised the production that the German car manufacturer had started in our country, the newspaper recalls.
After 13 years there is nothing left of the plans that were conceived at the time. Now the company is looking for a company to take over the management of the factory.
“With each round of escalation, the likelihood of production going on here in the foreseeable future diminishes,” the paper writes, citing a source in the group.
At the beginning of March 2022, the Volkswagen Group decided to stop car production in Russia (Kaluga, Nizhny Novgorod) until further notice. Export deliveries of cars to Russia were also stopped.
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Recently, crossovers have been assembled at an enterprise in Kaluga Volkswagen Tiguanliftbacks Volkswagen Polo and skoda fast. In the squares of GAZ in Nizhny Novgorod they produced skoda Octavia, Karoq and Kodiaqas well as Volkswagen Taos.
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