Prime-TASS reports that Russia’s Avtoframos company is to start production of the new Renault car X90 in spring 2005. That’s what Renault’s President Louis Schweitzer told Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov during their meeting Friday.

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Avtoframos is a joint venture established by the Moscow City government and France’s Renault, in which the government holds 38% and Renault the other 62%.


On March 15, Jean-Michel Jalinier, General Director of Renault Avtoframos told reporters that Avtoframos planned to start production of the new Renault car X90 in summer 2005.


Schweitzer said that the plant that is to produce this model is already being built and is to be launched in early 2005.


The Renault X90 will be presented for the first time on June 2 at Renault’s Technocentre outside Paris.

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Avtoframos plans to produce 60,000 Renault X90 cars annually and later on to increase annual output to 120,000 cars.


Currently the company produces the Renault Symbol passenger car, which was the best selling model on the Russian market in January-September 2003, with about 4,000 cars sold in Moscow and across Russia.


In 2003, Avtoframos produced 1,700 Renault Symbol cars.


The company plans to stop Renault Symbol (last generation Clio) production this month to get ready for X90 production.


The X90 vehicle, which is currently being developed by Renault’s vehicle and powertrain engineering teams in France, will use a platform derived from the Renault-Nissan Alliance B platform (also used for the Nissan Micra and Renault Clio).


The X90 will first be produced at the end of 2004 at the Dacia plant in Pitesti, Romania. It will then go into production in Russia.