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told reporters on December 9. “The assets of Nissan are belong to NAMI (the Central Scientific Research Automobile and Automotive Engines Institute), management will be conducted by AvtoVAZ. ... There will be production including at the Nissan site, which we also expect to be developed by AvtoVAZ,” he said. The ministry expects an increase in sales on the Russian car market in 2023 compared with 2022, Manturov also said. The ministry also keeps its forecast for 2022 unchanged – car sales will fall by 55% on the year to 750,000 cars, he added.
Russia’s largest carmaker AvtoVAZ plans to export about 20,000 Lada cars in 2023, President Maxim Sokolov told reporters in December. AvtoVAZ is ready to restart production at the SaryarkaAvtoProm plant in Kazakhstan, where it plans to deliver car kits, he said.The company is also studying new export markets for the cars, with African countries being in the focus, he said. At home, the company expects the market of cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) to widen to 800,000 vehicles in 2023 from 670,000–700,000 in 2020, Sokolov said. He also said AvtoVAZ may close the acquisition of RN Bank from the Renault-Nissan Alliance until the end of 2022 if the process goes fast, which largely depends on the company’s partners.
Russian car dealer Avtodom expects to close a deal to acquire German car concern Mercedes-Benz’s plant in the Moscow Region before the end of 2023, CEO Andrei Olkhovsky told PRIME on December 13. “Closing of the deal mostly depends on the work pace of the state authorities, we have filed all the necessary documents. Our plans are to close the deal within a month, certainly excluding the New Year holidays,” he said. The production may be restarted in eight to nine months after agreement on a new brand, whose cars will be produced at the plant, he also said.
Avtotor car plant located in Russia’s Kaliningrad Region has resumed operations and signed car assembly agreements with three Chinese companies to produce up to 2,000 new cars already in 2022, Governor Anton Alikhanov said as broadcasted by Rossiya 24 television channel on December 13. “I am glad to inform you that Avtotor has resumed operations. Indeed, agreements were signed with three Chinese companies, and assembly is already going, it started last week. They plan to produce 1,500–2,000 cars until the end of the year,” he said, adding that “several hundreds of cars have already been manufactured.” The production plan for 2023 is 50,000 units, while the ultimate goal is to “to achieve the figure of 100,000 cars annually,” he also said.
The former Nokian Tyres plant in the Leningrad Region plans to restart production in April–June 2023, Governor Alexander Drozdenko said on December 13. "Tough issues are yet to be solved with our largest industrial company Nokian Tyres. As you know, the company has changed the owner, now it is a Russian owner, rather than a Finnish one,” Drozdenko said. “But the
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