OREANDA-NEWS According to the agency “Auto-Dealer-SPb”, in January of 2017 St. Petersburg plants Hyundai, Nissan and Toyota have produced 25,200 cars, which is 2.4 times more than in January of 2016.

"Growth was expected - an indicator of release of cars in St. Petersburg in January of last year was the lowest in the last 5 years, and the reason was the Stop of the Hyundai plant in connection with the preparation for production of Creta model”, – said the general director of “Auto-Dealer-SPb”, Michail Chaplygin. – “In this case, it was produced more cars in January of this year than in the first month of 2015, and this is undoubtedly a positive signal for the local automotive industry. In the future, the dynamics of growth will gradually decline, but at the end of this year we expect to increase the production".

Production growth was recorded not only in the Hyundai. Toyota increased the production at the expense of the new model RAV4, and Nissan - due to the low base of last year and stable demand for their products.

Share of St. Petersburg automobile industry with respect to the all-Russian car production volume in January of 2017 has grown significantly and it was 32% (by the results of 2016 - 25.6%).

Seven models, produced in urban enterprises, entered the top-25 of the most popular cars in Russia for the first months of this year. It is KIA Rio (number one in the market), Hyundai Solaris, Hyundai Creta (the most popular SUV), Toyota RAV4, Toyota Camry, Nissan Qashqai and Nissan X-Trail.

In January of 2017 car plants of St. Petersburg produced 9 models of cars - Nissan Qashqai, Nissan X-Trail, Nissan Murano, Nissan Pathfinder, Toyota Camry, Toyota RAV4, Hyundai Solaris, Hyundai Creta and KIA Rio.