OREANDA-NEWS. Vsevolozhsk plant Ford Sollers until the mid-May stopped the production of cars Ford Focus, which is associated with the transition to the production of a new generation of model and the failure of sales.

As explained in the Ford Sollers, the model can be assembled in small lots by order. In addition, the capacity of the plant in May will only work four days a week, and in June it is possible a transition to three-day working week. Also, the company planned three-week summer vacation at the end of July, writes "Za rulem.RF."

The representative of trade unions of workers of the plant confirmed that the assembly of model Focus is completely stopped. "There may be further reductions in staff, now more than a half of staff is on forced outage," - he said. The plant employs 1,500 people, last year the company cut 700 people. According to the newspaper "Fontanka", currently 300 of the 1,500 workers at the plant were sent to the simple. "The assembly of Ford Mondeo continues to be, but not in the volume that has been planned," - said the representative of the union. The strike at the plant began on March 16th.

The representative of the Ford Sollers informed "Za rulem.RF" that the plant is operating normally, but he said that the company "adjusts the production volume under the current demand, in connection with this the production of Focus decreased”.

Currently Focus of current model year can be bought at least for 775,000 rubles in the base configuration, and the next version by equipping costs already 946,000 rubles.

As it was reported previously, Ford Sollers began the preparing for the production of a new generation of Ford Focus. Serial production will be launched in the mid-2015, while sales may start in August-September.