Telegram channel “Avtopotok” publishes a new photo of Chery Tiggo 7 Pro at the AvtoVAZ Scientific and Technical Center. At the same time, the public Avtogran News claims that this particular model will be “registered” at the Lada St. Petersburg plant and will be sold under the Lada brand. Moreover, a trial batch of cars has allegedly already been assembled and they are undergoing quality control and verification of compliance with the technological parameters of the assembly. There is no official confirmation of this yet.
This is not the first photo of Chery Tiggo 7 Pro at the AvtoVAZ Scientific and Technical Center – similar photographs have appeared before, and judging by the greenery around, they were taken some time ago. The new photo looks more recent, showing a black crossover, while in earlier photos the car had a white body.
For the first time, it became known in the summer of this year that Chery cars could begin to be assembled at the former Nissan plant in St. Petersburg, which is managed by AvtoVAZ after the departure of the Japanese company. AvtoVAZ itself stated that the automaker has certain capacity reserves at its sites and is “negotiating with several potential East Asian partners.” Chery, for its part, confirmed that it would produce cars in Russia, but AvtoVAZ did not appear in this statement, nor did the Tiggo 7 Pro crossover.
According to insider information, in addition to the Tiggo 7 Pro, production of another Chery model, Tiggo 8, may be launched in St. Petersburg. Meanwhile, one Chinese model with Lada logos is already being assembled at the Lada St. Petersburg plant – this is the X-Cross 5, it same FAW Bestune T77.
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But, again, according to rumors, the partnership with FAW did not work out for AvtoVAZ: the parties had disagreements, as a result of which, instead of 10 thousand X-Cross 5, only 100 copies were assembled. AvtoVAZ has not yet officially commented on this.
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