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OREANDA-NEWS. AvtoVAZ in 2015 will cut the production by 6.5% to 538,000 vehicles, said the company president, Bo Andersson. According to him, in comparison with the first half of the volume of production in July-December, it will be reduced from 288 thousand to 250 thousand cars. Despite this, AvtoVAZ plans to keep the share of the Russian market of 19% by launching new Lada Vesta and Xray and the overall dynamics of sales, explained the company.

According to the newspaper "Kommersant", a month ago, AvtoVAZ was going to ramp up the production in 2015 - by 1.7%. "Even on the weakened market, we will reach the volume of 585 thousand cars," – said at that time Mr. Andersson. And in February, the plant expected to release during the year 712,000 cars, so, the production plan of AVTOVAZ decreased by a quarter for six months. Then Bo Andersson said that the increase in production will come from the launch of Lada Vesta in September and the increasing of production of the new Renault Logan, Renault Sandero and Datsun.

For six months, according to the Association of European Businesses (AEB), the share of AvtoVAZ and Renault-Nissan on the market increased by 3.9units, to 34.5%, although sales of the alliance fell by 28% to 269.8 thousand cars. Totally the sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Russia fell by 36.4% to 782.1 thousand cars for a half of year. Sales volumes of Lada in January-June fell by 27% to 140.7 thousand cars (share grew by 2.3units, to 18%), sales of Renault - by 40.8%, to 57.1 thousand cars, Nissan - by 38.6%, to 50.5 thousand cars. Shares of the last two brands on the market decreased by 0.5 p. and by 0.2 p., to 7.3% and 6.5%, respectively.

Vladimir Bespalov from "VTB Capital" notes that AvtoVAZ plans are "in any case approximate", the plant will be easy to adjust to the market. A significant change in forecasts for the year is explained by the expert with the deterioration of the general market conditions, at the same time alliance adjusts the volume of its production against the background of the falling sales of Renault and Nissan. Start of production of Lada Vesta, in his opinion, will not impact much on sales and production.