The new Aurus business segment vehicles will be introduced at the end of 2024. TASS reports this with reference to Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov.
At the same time, there will be at least four models in the new Aurus series of the business segment. Manturov said that car production will be organized at the former Toyota plant together with a foreign partner.
It became known that the former Russian Toyota plant may start producing premium Aurus cars. known In January 2024. Later, the company posted several vacancies at the site in the name of Aurus Motors LLC.
The Aurus Senat executive sedan was presented in late spring 2021, the model was put into series production at the Ford Sollers plant in Yelabuga. At the end of November 2022, production of the Aurus Komendant SUVs was launched here. The car received nine exterior color options and seven types of interior trim. It is equipped with a V8 engine producing 598 hp. twin turbocharged.
Mass production of the extended version of the Aurus Senat could begin in 2025. A partition will be placed inside the cabin and there will be two separate seats at the back.
Previously Russian President Vladimir Putin saidWhen Aurus cars got cheaper.