Toyota will produce the RAV4 in Russia from August 2016
- After starting the production in Russia of the Mitsubishi Outlander in 2010 and that of the the Renault Duster in 2011, the Ford Kuga in 2012, the VW Tiguan in 2014 and the Nissan Qashqai in 2015, Toyota has decided in turn to manufacture its compact SUV in this country, from the summer of 2016, even though today the Russian market fell to its lowest level since 2009. Several manufacturers have decided to withdraw from the Russian market, such as General-Motors or Honda, but Toyota decided to continue its investments in the country by expanding its range manufactured locally, because the potential of this market still seem so promising (it could exceed 3 million units in a few years).
- Toyota has been manufacturing the Camry sedan at its plant in Saint Petersburg since 2008. This model was sold at 30 136 units in 2015. The RAV4 compact SUV was the second best-selling model of the brand last year (27 102 units).
- Logically, the RAV4 has been chosen to support the Camry in the St. Petersburg plant, because the main model for several years, the Corolla, saw its sales decline gradually (6 137 sales cease in 2015). The production capacity of 50 000 vehicles per year from the plant could be doubled to 100 000 units per year, if the demand required it.
- In 2015, the Toyota plant in Saint Petersburg produced the Camry at 32 882 (against 36 775 in 2014), of which 2 746 were exported to neighboring countries, such as Belarus and Kazakhstan.
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