Since the details of the plans for the reincarnation of the plant have not yet been announced, one can only guess what the future holds for Moskvich. According to Igor Morzharetto, partner of the Avtostat analysis firm, the project will have a social focus: saving jobs. The economic component is still in high demand. Especially when you consider where the factory currently stands: the location 8 km from the Kremlin is a real treasure and a dream of all capital developers.
– Nowhere in the world in the center of the city is there no car production – it is simply unprofitable due to the high cost of land, the expert notes. — The factory in this place is doomed. Now only SKD assembly can be organized on it. To collect, most likely, there will be cars from Chinese companies. We are, of course, talking about the mass segment. From the beginning, no one here is sure to create anything. Even the team of professionals that left Renault can only organize production, but not create it from scratch, Igor Morzharetto is convinced.
Journalist Sergey Aslanyan is even more pessimistic, noting that “not one specific site has died, but the entire industry. And there’s no one to revive it.”
– When we talk about revival, the inevitable question arises: who will do it? We have no engineers, designers, no teachers to teach students about the modern car industry, – car expert Jan Haytseer supported his colleague. — Yes, there is a possibility that we will cooperate with Chinese partners. But it will also be factories. on which SKD will be carried out: we will invest in this project, the Chinese will provide us with spare parts, but this will not be a full-fledged production of domestic cars. This gives us some time to revive our education to help students later work in this industry. Shall we put it to good use, the expert asks.