On June 8, after a standstill that started after the May holidays, AVTOVAZ returned to the car assembly industry. The first model to be launched on the newly revived assembly line was the Lada Granta in the “anti-crisis” Classic’22 configuration. These cars will not have air conditioning, ABS and airbags, but will have power windows on the front doors, EUR, heated mirrors and windscreen.
The factory will produce cars in two 8-hour shifts, until September there will be a 4-day work week at the production location, the Rossiya 1 TV channel reports. AVTOVAZ is ready to produce as many cars as the market demand requires.
The first days after the restart, the auto giant Volga worked successfully. On the first day, June 8, only a few dozen cars were scheduled for assembly, the work of the second shift was questionable, but in fact assembly was carried out until the evening, about 165 cars were produced, Avtograd News writes. By the next day, according to the source, more than 400 cars had already been assembled and by June the aim is to produce 7,000 cars of the Grant family.
- The remaining assembly lines of auto plants in Tolyatti and Izhevsk are still inactive, but AVTOVAZ president Maxim Sokolov said assembly of Niva Legend and Niva Travel SUVs would resume in July.
- “Behind the wheel” can be read in Odnoklassniki.
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