"AvtoVAZ" Plans to resume production of Lada Vesta NG on March 3

Moscow, February 27 – AvtoVAZ plans to resume serial production of Lada Vesta NG at a plant in Togliatti on March 3, and sales of the model will start in April-May, company president Maxim Sokolov told reporters.

“More recently, a couple of weeks ago, a pre-transfer series was launched for the conveyor. Today the conveyor is in operation, producing Lada Vesta New Generation models already in a restyled guise. We plan – as we said – that at the same time,” Sokolov said when asked about the resumption of Lada production. Vesta on the sidelines of the Federation Council “The beginning of March, approximately the third of March, this conveyor will already start production of mass-produced cars.”

“We will start selling in the second quarter: April-May. Our dealer network must collect these cars. Despite the fact that they will begin to roll off the assembly line, it is imperative that each dealer has a certain stock. And this requires – this is a global practice – where two or three months “.

According to Sokolov, the price of Lada Vesta NG, produced in Togliatti, will be higher than that of the Lada Vesta NG model, which was presented and put into production for a short time at the plant in Izhevsk a year ago. “Yes, we do indeed live in a new world and a new scale,” said the senior manager, answering a related question.