Farewell to the Soviet auto industry

The Moskvich died earlier than the Great Fracture, but in July 2005, “on the bones” (on the site of the non-arranged workshop), AZLK began the production of a machine for developing countries-Renault Logan. The French waited a long time for their time, acquired a control package of a joint-jointly with the Moscow government of the Autofram OJSC , at the end of 2004 they brought equipment and installed equipment, at the very end of the same year they assembled the first trial cars, launched production in the spring of 2005, and in the summer they began sales. For six months, it was possible to collect 10 thousand pieces, which is quite good, given that the assembly is almost manually, and the company is still working in one shift. For the calculated 60 thousand per year, "Autofram" should be released in 2007.

Farewell first: "IZH"

The first in the past year he ended with the Soviet car "Izh-Avo". The Samara Group of SOK who owned the plant produced the cars of the Oda family, because they were the cheapest in the market (if you do not take the "OKO"). They were bought, even despite their low quality. But as soon as the prices went up (the metal rose), the demand for Izhevsk products has decreased sharply. In March 2005, the general director of IZH-Auto Mikhail Provobyndo announced that Korean will be replaced by their own cars , and by the fall, only the IZH-27175 and VAZ models and VAZ models and VAZ models and VAZ models were left on the VAZ-2104 chassis. But they are destined for an ambulance - the "six" will last until January 2006. The staff was sharply reduced, and the redesigned workers are collected from the Kia Spectra imported components . There is no one to deal with its own design developments on "Izhe" - the corresponding department is disbanded.

Farewell second: "Volga"

The Volga was going to modernize all over the past 10 years, but it did not go further than the new optics, details of the interior and changes in the suspension design. The former in Soviet times by an unattainable ideal (the Volga was three times more than the “Lada”) by the mid-2000s it became defiantly accessible to its class. And still the demand for it falls. At least for a short time to extend the life of a machine, the design of which dates back to the end of the 60s, the installation of a "Chrysler" engine can be installed . But the further owners of the further production of a morally obsolete car seemed unreasonable. In December, Oleg Deripaska announced that the GAZ was stopping the release of the Volga, it will no longer develop its own model of a car and will focus on commercial cars, trucks and buses . The latter for the Volga may be 2006-2007.

Farewell third: "Oka"

Who is really sorry for is the "OKU". For their money (now "Oka" costs a little more than 3 thousand dollars) it was a worthy car. It's a shame that all attempts to give him a second life ended unsuccessfully. The whole trouble is that the issue of the Oka in factories in Naberezhnye Chelny and in Serpukhov is directly tied with the supply of components (primarily engines) from AvtoVAZ, for which "Oka" is an unnecessary ballast. We tried to put a new engine on Oka , but it was a piece of goods.

One could hope that Oka-2 would replace the Oka, but its launch requires huge investments. Talking about the removal of Oka from production went immediately after the owner of the Micro-Car Plant OJSC in Naberezhnye Chelny became Severstal-Avo. Already in June 2005, the Director General of Severstal-Auto Vadim Shvetsov Yakno expressed himself on this occasion . In December, he called the end date of production - July 2006, when the approval of the type of vehicle will end. Until that time, a snake will produce about 10 thousand cars. In Serpukhov, they are set up to maintain production, but it will not be so simple: the current VAZ motor is not going to modernize, and besides, not further from January, I intend to completely stop the supply of engines for the Oka.

Hello and goodbye!

Of course, how the owners of our factories with their modeling range are rapidly parting, there are several explanations. Firstly, the carburetor engines of the Oka and IZH do not comply with the toxicity of Euro-2, which finally introduced in Russia. Secondly, it is much easier for owners to purchase a license to produce a proven imported car than invest billions in the development of their own.

Who is being replaced by Soviet? The world's car concerns were rushed to Russia - the production of Ford, Renault, the General Motors project with AvtoVAZ, Toyota laid its plant near St. Petersburg . But the mass invasion did not work. For more than one year, negotiations have been underway on the construction of the plant with Volkswagen, Daimlerchrysler did not like the qualification level of our workers , Nissan turned away from Nizhny Novgorod.

Other Asians - Chinese and Indians were less scrupulous. Several Chinese companies (Greatwall, Chery, FAW) sell their clones of well -known models in the Russian market, and the Indian Mahindra & Mahindra tries to assemble its newspaper.

Only one AvtoVAZ can withstand a foreign invasion. Maybe people from Rosoboronexport came to the board of directors of the Togliatti auto giant for this?