A sedan has been produced at the same plant since May 2021. Aurus Senate. Today, the Yelabuga plant began assembling Aurus Komendant luxury SUVs, as company representatives wrote in the Telegram channel:
“Series production of the first Russian luxury SUV has started at the Aurus plant in Tatarstan. This is an unprecedented start for the domestic automotive industry: less than a year and a half after the opening of the AURUS plant in Yelabuga, the brand’s second completely new model is already entering production.”
Aurus cars have a high degree of localization – 70% of components are produced in Russia by domestic manufacturers. These are the main components of the car, power plant, transmission, electronics, interior and decor.
“The Aurus phenomenon is the idea of an all-Russian luxury car, which has been transformed into an industrial success: it includes our engineering, our technologies, thousands of jobs in our production plants among Aurus suppliers,” the company said in a statement.
Aurus Komendant is built on a single modular platform (UMP) and is similar to the Senate in many ways. The SUV shares the same V8 turbo engine with mild hybrid technology and produces 598 horsepower. and 880nm. The same 9-speed automatic is also used. But the car’s settings are different and are slightly off-road oriented.
The SUV has 9 body color options and 7 interior design options. Aurus Komendant costs from 33.7 million rubles.
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A picture: Telegram-channel AURUS Russia