Volkswagen has launched its locally assembled light commercial vehicles (LCVs) onto the Russian car market.
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The vehicles are assembled at the firm’s Kaluga facility.
VW has started selling VW Transporter, VW Caravelle, VW Multivan, and VW Caddy models.
In January-July, Volkswagen sold 3,243 LCVs in Russia.
VW’s Russia plant began operations in November 2007 – it also assembles Skoda brand cars.
In 2008, the plant produced over 60,000 cars.
Volkswagen assembled 25,100 vehicles at its Russian plant in January-July.
Analysts note that OEMs are looking to make their Russia facilities work harder for them in the face of a sharply declining market – in order to support capacity utilisation rates and due to the weak Russian currency which has made imported BU vehicles more expensive.
