The enterprise, where Toyota Camry and RAV4 were assembled until 2022, has belonged to the company “for a long time,” said the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov. However, he confirmed this in a conversation with TASS only now. If everything goes according to plan, Russian cars will be on the assembly line before the end of this year. And “Aurus” assembled in St. Petersburg will go on sale in 2025.
The new Aurus line will be produced at the former Toyota plant in Shushary, Manturov previously reported. We are talking about business-class models: at least four cars will be put on the assembly line, the assembly of which will be helped by a certain “foreign partner”.
Rumors that Aurus will be “registered” in St. Petersburg appeared back in January of this year. Then it was reported that these would be cars “roughly in the format” of the Camry, which was previously produced at the Toyota site.
The Chinese Hongqi, which has an H5 sedan costing from 4.8 million rubles, with a two-liter engine with 224 horsepower, an automatic transmission and front-wheel drive, was named as a possible candidate for the plant’s partners. In addition to it, there are three more models in the Russian Hongqi line: the larger H9 sedan and the HS5 and HS7 crossovers.
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Toyota production at the Russian plant stopped in March 2022. In 2023, the enterprise, together with local Toyota assets, was transferred to FSUE NAMI without a buyback option.
Meanwhile, Aurus updated the Senat limousine for Putin’s inauguration. The front design of the car was corrected, it was equipped with matrix headlights and LED lights, and a digital mirror and new multimedia appeared in the cabin. The power plant has not changed.
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