OREANDA-NEWS. The St. Petersburg plant Hyundai today resumes the production of cars after a summer corporate holiday, which was held since July 17th. During this period the company carried out planned maintenance of technological equipment.

As previously reported «AUTOSTAT», in the first half of 2017, the St. Petersburg plant Hyundai produced 113.7 thousand cars, which is more by 17% than the same period of the last year. In total this year it is planned to produce more than 220 thousand cars. The company is working consistently in three production shifts, five days a week.

Recall, in mid-February, the plant Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus began the commercial production of the new generation Hyundai Solaris, which from the first days of sales in March of this year demonstrates the high demand from consumers. At the beginning of July, a serial production of a new generation Kia Rio sedan started at the enterprise in St. Petersburg.

In January-June, 2017, sales of KIA Rio in the Russian market grew by 17% to 46,158 cars. Thus, this model became the leader in terms of sales among foreign cars. Sedan Hyundai Solaris for the same period found 32745 buyers (-29%), and the compact crossover Hyundai Creta was sold in the number of 24,143 units.