Serial production of cars was resumed at the former Volkswagen plant in Kaluga (current name "AGR"). The head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Anton Alikhanov reported this to TASS .
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“Production has already begun, we talked with the governor. Negotiations took place last week with their potential partners,” he said.
In May 2023, the Volkswagen automobile concern completed the sale of its Russian assets, including the automobile plant in Kaluga, to the Art-Finance company. Russian authorities agreed on a deal at a price of up to 125 million euros without a buyback option. The maximum production capacity of the enterprise is 225 thousand cars per year. Recently, the plant in Kaluga produced three models: the Volkswagen Tiguan crossover, the Volkswagen Polo and Skoda Rapid liftbacks. In March 2022, local production and import of Volkswagen and Skoda cars into our country was stopped.
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