Thursday, March 19, 2015

General Motors in Russia stops selling brands Opel and Chevrolet – Omsk city portal Gorod55.ru

The US company General Motors on Wednesday, March 18, made an official statement renouncing the development of most projects in Russia, investment in which amounted to more than $ 319 million, to assess the market of our country as a platform “to obscure the long term.” It is reported by TASS .

Discontinued cooperation with GAZ Group and Kaliningrad plant “Avtotor”, as well as frozen production facility in St. Petersburg. Remains in force only in conjunction with AvtoVAZ project GM-AVTOVAZ to produce SUVs Chevrolet NIVA.

In addition to stopping the production of GM declines in sales in Russia are niche models – by the end of December 2015 will be completely stopped selling the brand Opel. Another popular Chevrolet brand sales collapses mass models, leaving only the luxury segment with models Corvette, Camaro and Tahoe, and saved sale Cadillac.

Also, GM-AVTOVAZ transfers Launch of a new generation of Chevrolet NIVA 2016.

Industrial site in St. Petersburg had roadmap cars of 98 thousand cars a year, the prospects for 2015 – an increase of up to 230 thousand. Here assembles Chevrolet Cruze sedan, Opel Astra sedan and hatchback, Chevrolet Captiva, Opel Antara and TrailBlazer.

In Nizhny Novgorod, at the facilities of “GAZ” going sedan and hatchback Chevrolet Aveo.

At the Kaliningrad “Avtotor” assembly of the latest models was made in early March and now for the release of GM vehicles is not conducted.

The US company General Motors appreciated the care of the Russian market of 600 million dollars. This includes restructuring costs and the sale of stocks of vehicles.

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