The Ministry of industry and trade of the Russian Federation has selected project Tuple that includes the design and construction of the series of cars for the first persons of the State. It will be the company Sollers, however, in the implementation of the job will also involve State Corporation Russian technologies and Rosauto. As head of the Ministry told journalists Denis Manturov, presentation of tuples will be held before December 31, 2016 onwards.
The official recalled that a contract worth 8.05 billion involves the creation and introduction into series production limousine, sedan, van and SUV on a single platform. On special-purpose vehicles designed for the transportation of the President directly and other VIPs have to no more than 5% of the total production; other models will be designed for accompanying persons, security, security services, etc. According to d. Manturova, Sollersu will assist and other Russian companies, for example, KAMAZ and Avtovaz. So, the last service network will be used to service vehicles.
It should be noted that until now have not been Sollers own developments (if you don't count such UAZ Patriot, which produce company owned Ulyanovsk plant). Formerly Severstal-avto promsborkoj deals with Ford, Fiat, SsangYong, Isuzu, Mazda and Toyota. We'll also add that Deripaska has not declared a competition for the project, and the Motorcade, which was formulated as a purchase from a single provider. Comments seem superfluous.