MOSCOW – Days after relaunching automotive manufacturing below the Soviet-era Moskvich model, the government-owned automaker has agreed to provide Russian taxi agency Citymobil with 2,000 vehicles subsequent yr, in what could be the primary main deal for the revived automotive.
The Moskvich is produced at a plant taken over from French carmaker Renault, with a brand new, fashionable Chinese language design that hardly resembles its Soviet-era traditional model.
Folks and Folks, the corporate that runs Citymobil, stated on Wednesday {that a} tentative settlement had been reached for buying petrol petrol vehicles from Moskvich.
Monetary particulars of the deal weren’t disclosed.
With simply 600 autos slated for manufacturing this yr, the Moskvich is unlikely to vary the gloomy outlook for Russia’s wider automotive trade, the place annual gross sales this yr might crash beneath 1 million for the primary time within the nation’s fashionable historical past.
The federal government finally goals to provide 100,000 Moskvich autos a yr, a few of which shall be electrical.
The brand new Moskvich 3 is considered similar to the Sehol X4 compact crossover made by Chinese language automaker JAC Motors, and shall be assembled in Russia utilizing elements imported from China.