A significant number of Lada Vesta NG cars coming to dealers are in a state of understocking.
The serial production of the updated Lada Vesta NG, which began in March of this year at the AvtoVAZ enterprise in Tolyatti, faced huge problems: two-thirds of new cars were unsaleable.
The head of the Association “Automobile Dealers of Russia” Alexei Podshchekoldin said in a conversation with Autonewsthat a significant number of these models come to dealers in a state of understocking.
In most cases, cars do not have instrument panel frames and navigation system buttons.
“This (AvtoVAZ” – ed.) is our flagship, but it has a lot of problems”– the interlocutor admits and adds that due to the lack of equipment, dealers cannot sell a significant number of Lada Vesta NG, which are already on dealer sites.
Dealers expect to receive the missing components from the manufacturer in order to independently install them on the cars they sell.
Meanwhile, AvtoVAZ refuses to discuss the problem with media representatives and claims that there are a sufficient number of Lada Vesta NG models at dealer sites, and also promises to “promptly solve problems with missing components.”
The cost of a new generation of Lada cars starts from 1.2 million rubles. Production of the Lada Vesta NG began in February 2022, a few days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which led to large-scale Western sanctions against Moscow and the withdrawal of Renault and most foreign suppliers from the Russian market. In this regard, the mass production of the new Lada model was restored only in March 2023 with certain simplifications. Western components were replaced with Russian and Chinese ones.
The manufacturer calls Lada Vesta NG a new generation, although in fact it looks more like a deep restyling: the car remained on the same platform, but the design was improved.
Earlier Russians criticized Another novelty of the Russian automobile industry is the highly publicized off-road vehicle UAZ “Hunter”, produced by the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant.
Before that, a scandal erupted in the Russian Federation over the cost of the updated UAZ Loaf model: the novelty of the model will consist only in color versions, but they decided to sell it at a price of 1.6 million rubles.
Author: Artem Malinovsky
2023-07-19 15:51:57
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