OREANDA-NEWS. The St. Petersburg plant Hyundai produced 169,800 vehicles for the first nine months of 2017, which is more by 12% than the same period of the last year. Totally the enterprise plans to produce more than 220 thousand cars in 2017, reports the Hyundai Motor CIS press-service.

As it is noted, in 2015-2017 the plant completely updated the line of produced cars, further investing in the company more than $ 300 million, which were spent on the modernization of production. Thus, the total investments in the plant's design exceeded $ 1 billion today.

Recall that in August of last year, the Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus plant began the production of a compact crossover Hyundai Creta, which, since the market entering, has retained the title of the most popular SUV in Russia. In February of 2017, the company started the production of a new generation Hyundai Solaris sedan, and in July - a new KIA Rio.