OREANDA-NEWS. Japanese automaker Toyota may start test assembly of the RAV4 crossover at its plant in St. Petersburg in 2015, Chairman of the Committee for Industrial Policy and Innovations in St. Petersburg Maxim Meiksin told to TASS agency.

As previously reported, the company plans to double  production capacity of the St. Petersburg plant up to 100,000 vehicles per year by the end of 2015 and to begin production of the second model – the Toyota RAV4 crossover -  in 2016.

In November 2014 the enterprise started assembly of the updated Camry. New body stamping and plastic part workshops were launched at the same time. The localization level is estimated at 30%, production volume in 2014 was about 35,600 vehicles.