And this will happen by 2016, pledged at the interregional conference "United Russia" in Cherepovets Prime Minister of Russia. The growth potential in the country is very large, he said. Just last year, passenger car production in Russia has doubled, and for the first half of this year is still at 76%. In the structure of sales from year to year, a growing number of domestically assembled cars. So if two years ago the share of collected in Russia car was only 50%, now up to 70%, the Minister said, RBK daily. One of the main centers of the automotive industry became the North-West Russia. Of the 1.4 million vehicles 400 thousand were produced there, said Vladimir Putin. Recall that in June agreement on transition to a new mode of assembling cars in Russia has signed Sollers-Ford, Volkswagen, General Motors and the consortium of companies AVTOVAZ, Renault-Nissan, "IzhAvto", KAMAZ and the OAS. .