After the Renault-Nissan alliance stopped the supply of automatic transmissions, AvtoVAZ has not yet been able to replace these units for Lada cars. It is planned to resume production of automatic transmission cars from the beginning of next year. In an interview with the newspaper “Kommersant” about this said head of the company Maxim Sokolov.
Answering the question whether cars with automatic transmissions are no longer produced, Sokolov said: “It is not produced at AvtoVAZ, because we did not adapt a different gearbox to our cars, but we plan to do this from the beginning of next year.” at the factory. .
According to him, the priority is to equip the Lada Granta, Vesta and Lagrus models with such a transmission. The head of AvtoVAZ added that the production of the Niva Legend with a machine gun is not planned.
The day before Maxim Sokolov announced On June 14, 2023, St. Relaunch of the former Nissan factory in St. Petersburg under the Lada brand.