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The interior of the Ford Focus has become more practical due to the use of upholstery fabric with hydrophobic (water-repellent) properties. 

The company KIA Motors Rus revised the prices for original spare parts of mass demand and for the second line of spare parts.

The Ulyanovsk plant "Isuzu Rus" launched a line for assembling the trucks of the "C" and "E" series. Annually it is planned to produce about 400 heavy trucks. In subsequent years, the volume should reach two thousand cars.

The Chinese brand FAW is considering the possibility of launching a second model in Kaliningrad's Avtotor (in April the industrial production of the Besturn X80 was launched after 80 units of the pilot lot). Presumably it will happen at the beginning of 2018.

According to the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", the volume of the market for new light commercial vehicles (LCV) in Russia was 9.7 thousand units in April of 2017, which is more by 18.8% than a year ago.

According to the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", the volume of the market of new trucks in Russia was 5.9 thousand units in April of 2017, which is more by 35.7% than a year ago.

Signet Jewelers Limited (“Signet”) (NYSE:SIG), the world's largest retailer of diamond jewelry, today announced its results for the 13 weeks (“first quarter Fiscal 2018”) ended April 29, 2017.

Rolls-Royce has started power runs of the world’s most powerful aerospace gearbox for the first time, marking another significant step in the development of its new UltraFan® engine design.

Russian dealers of Lifan in July will begin sales of the flagship sedan Lifan Murman. The dimensions of the car are 4865 mm in length, 1835 mm in width and 1480 mm in height, the wheelbase is 2775 mm.

2017-05-24 -

Russian dealers of Nissan sold 4944 cars in April - more by 11% than a year before. According to the results of four months of 2017 in Russia, there were sold 22542 Nissan cars, which is less by 9% than the figure for the same period of the last year.