AvtoVAZ will build a crossover on a Russian-designed platform, which forms the basis of the Lada Vesta sedan and station wagon. In an interview with TASS about it said Maxim Sokolov, Chairman of AvtoVAZ.
“A completely new branch is our own modified Vesta platform, on which a new crossover will be produced in the most popular car format in the world today,” Sokolov said.
The head of AvtoVAZ did not specify the timing of the release of the new crossover. According to him, the restart of production of the updated Lada Vesta in Togliatti is scheduled for the spring of 2023. AvtoVAZ management explains the decision to transfer the production of Vesta from Izhevsk, where the vehicle has been assembled since 2015, to the main production plant of the plant in Togliatti, with higher productivity of the conveyors there.
Earlier it was known that this procedure would be applied. cost 1 billion rubles plant. Lada Vesta, which was assembled at the beginning of 2022, is shipped to dealers for sale. Moscow dealers discretion A novelty from a limited batch in Izhevsk in the amount of 2.3 million rubles before the end of cooperation with Renault.