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For KAMAZ, it means the reaching to the largest markets of the African continent - South Africa and the nearest countries.

On September 8th, Ford Sollers Holding announced the recall of 20,864 Ford Kuga cars. The reason for recalling of these 1,059 vehicles sold from September 25th, 2016 to June 30th, 2017 is the failure of the batch of initiators of airbags.

According to the results of August 2017, sales of premium-segment cars in Russia were 11,337 units. As analysts of the agency "AUTOSTAT" noted, this is less by 1.1% than during the same period of a year ago.

The car market in Russia, which, despite the holiday season in August, continued to recover at a high pace, rose to the second place in the ranking of the largest car markets in Europe in the last month.

KAMAZ plans to launch an experimental-industrial lot of the main-line tractors of the new generation KAMAZ-54901 in the next year. The model will be launched in the serial production in 2019, said the CEO of KAMAZ, Sergey Kogogin.

The new Kia Stinger, a powerful fastback sports sedan, (hereafter Stinger) closely follows the design and engineering blueprint laid down by the 2011 Kia GT Concept, and is the highest-performance production vehicle in the company’s history.

Specialists of the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", within the preparation of the study "Consumer preferences of Russian car owners. Results of 2016", conducted an online survey, which involved more than 2000 respondents.

According to the results of eight months of 2017, the Russian car market grew by 9.6% to 980,921 cars, according to the data of the Association of European Businesses.

Thus, KIA Rio fell to the second place, which in August had a change of generations.

 

Fast Retailing first entered the Russian market in 2010.

August exports fell by 6.3pc to 6.52mn t from 6.96mn t in July. Volumes were lower by 27.6pc from 9.01mn t in August 2016, according to preliminary customs data.

According to the results of eight months of 2017, 30,233 Ford cars (+ 10%) were sold.

In the eight months of 2017, sales of Jeep grew by 21% to 941 SUVs in Russia.