Granta new generation will be called differently
AvtoVAZ President Maxim Sokolov, in an interview with Kommersant, touched on the topic of new products. We are talking about the electric Largus, the brand new Lada Granta and the crossover based on the Lada Vesta NG.
“ Electro-Largus is one of the new products. We already created a prototype last year, despite the fact that it was a difficult period, but we understood that we had to keep up with the times. The first pilot batch will be produced this year. We will put it on the conveyor next year, in 2024. Somewhere at the beginning of the year. Also in 2024, we plan to launch a completely new family of cars to replace the Grante, the new Granta. For now, I will keep the intrigue and will not reveal her name, although this project already has it. We plan to start production in the fourth quarter of 2024, and this car will go on sale from January ,” Maxim Sokolov said.
The brand new Lada Granta will go on sale in January 2025.
“In addition, we are actively developing a crossover model based on Vesta. Now crossovers are one of the top-selling trends. Everyone is switching to crossovers, regardless of the fact that all-wheel drive, front-wheel drive only, automatic or manual transmission. Today the world lives like this, and we must, of course, focus on the market. Therefore, last year, in my opinion, in August last year, we decided to launch this model. In general, the new platform has been developed for four years and costs, as we have already said, about 1 billion rubles, but here the platform, fortunately, is ours. Therefore, in order to develop a new modification, a new model, of such a class of transition between B and C, that is, almost approaching full size, we allotted a very short time for our engineers – two years.“, – added the head of AvtoVAZ.
Thus, 2025 will be a very busy year for the company: two potentially hit models will go on sale at once.
