OREANDA-NEWS. According to Rosstat, for eleven months of 2014 the Russian assembly plants produced 1.6 million cars - it is less by 10.3% than a year before. Meanwhile, the last month it was produced about 200 thousand cars, which is less by 27.1% than a year ago.

It should be noted, AvtoVAZ at the facilities of pilot production began the assembly of a pilot lot of cars Lada Vesta in November, and Izhevsk plant, where it will be the serial production of the new model, made the first body of Lada Vesta.

With regard to production of foreign cars, the St. Petersburg plant Toyota began the production of the updated Toyota Camry; therewith, the company had launched the new shops of stamping of body parts and production of plastic parts. Kaliningrad "Avtotor" continues to improve the localization, where the full-scale production of model KIA Cerato began the last month, a new facility for the production of cars in full cycle can produce up to 50,000 cars a year. Meanwhile, General Motors moved the assembly model Cadillac - sedans CTS and ATS, as well as the crossover SRX - from "Avtotor" to its own plant in St. Petersburg. Moscow plant "Renault Russia" has completed the production of hatchback Renault Sandero of the first generation in connection with the launch of the designed capacity of assembly of a new generation of this model at the site of AvtoVAZ. In connection with the falling demand in the Russian market, Gorky Automobile Plant from November 14th to May 13th, 2015 shifted to the mode of four-day week the production of cars Chevrolet Aveo for GM.