- Avtotor is a Russian carmaker based in Kaliningrad, in an area separated from the rest of Russia, formerly known as the Eastern Prussia. This constructor has grown dramatically since the early 2000s, from 20,000 cars produced in 2005 to 250,000 in 2012 (volume multiplied by 12.5).

- It owes its expansion to agreements with various foreign carmakers whose models are manufactured under license. Today Avtotor manufactures for the BMW Group, General-Motors (Cadillac, Chevrolet, Opel) and Hyundai-Kia.

- In 2013, 53% of cars assembled by Avtotor are Hyundai-Kia, 35% are General-Motors (20% Chevrolet 13% of Opel and Cadillac 2%) and 12% are BMW.All these cars are sold on the Russian territory.

- Today Avtotor represents between 10% and 11% of the production achieved in Russia in the past two years. It is the second Russian caramaker behind Avtovaz (Lada).

- Avtotor managed its way through the crisis of 2009 when production fell by half, due to a collapse of the Russian market that year, the carmaker was at the time on the verge of bankruptcy. Reborn, Avtotor managed to double its production in 2010 (the Russian market restarted that year) to make further progress until 2012. Dependent of the Russian market, Avtotor followed its negative trend in 2013 (down about 10%).