OREANDA-NEWS. According to the Federal State Statistics Service, for the eight months of 2017, 851,000 passenger cars left the Russian conveyors, which is more by 21.4% than in the same period of the last year. Meanwhile, in August, 111 thousand cars were produced, which is more by 24.9% than a year ago. It should be noted that in the last month Russian plants "PSMA Rus", Toyota, UAZ, as well as AVTOVAZ, GM-AvtoVAZ and Izhevsk Automobile Plant were on corporate holidays. At the same time, the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant switched to a three-day working week, which operated until the beginning of September.

Meanwhile, the Moscow plant Renault has produced a 350,000th SUV Renault Duster since the production of the model in December of 2011. And from the assembly line of the Volkswagen Group Rus production site in Nizhny Novgorod, the 200,000th car came off since the start of the contract assembly at GAZ in November of 2011. The production of trucks in January-August was 91.7 thousand units, which is more by 14.2% than a year ago. In the last month 12.5 thousand trucks came down from Russian conveyors, which is more by 30% than a year ago.