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OREANDA-NEWS. According to the agency «Auto-Dealer-SPb", in I half of 2015 in St. Petersburg car manufacturers Hyundai, Toyota, Nissan and GM produced 153,200 new passenger cars, which is less by 21% than in the first half of last year. In June, the decline in production was only 3% - it was assembled 27,600 new cars from conveyors of urban enterprises.

Leader by the number of vehicles, produced in St. Petersburg, is still Hyundai plant - its share in total production of cars in the city is 72%. Toyota and Nissan had about 20% in the I half of year. On July 1st GM plant finished the car production, whose share in the reporting period was less than 10% of the total production of cars in St. Petersburg.

Share of the St. Petersburg car industry with respect to the volume of Russian car production was 22.6%for six months. Thus, it increased, significantly, in compare with the first quarter (20.1%).

Recall that in the I half of year the Petersburg auto plants produced 15 models of cars: Chevrolet Captiva, Chevrolet TrailBlazer, Chevrolet Cruze, Cadillac ATS, Cadillac CTS, Cadillac SRX, Cadillac Escalade, Opel Astra, Nissan Teana, Nissan X-Trail, Nissan Murano, Nissan Pathfinder, Toyota Camry, Hyundai Solaris and Kia Rio. In January-June four models that are manufactured in St. Petersburg entered the Top- 20 of the most popular cars in Russia - Hyundai Solaris, KIA Rio, Toyota Camry (ranked in the top-10) and Nissan X-Trail.