How KamAZ ‘thrown’ Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin on cars
- July 8, 2022
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As soon as the office of the mayor of Moscow was taken over by the former Renault factory, where the crossovers of the French brand were previously produced,
As soon as the office of the mayor of Moscow was taken over by the former Renault factory, where the crossovers of the French brand were previously produced, the city authorities immediately rushed to find an industrial partner. After all, the production of cars is a much more complicated task than laying paving stones, installing traffic cameras and organizing agricultural fairs. And KamAZ rushed to become this partner.
Let’s face it: truck and car production are “two big differences”. And so the expert community was rightly surprised: How can the truck giant’s specialists help restart a purely passenger conveyor? However, a very serious asset was found in the sleeve of KAMAZ workers – this is a partnership with the Chinese auto industry. Or rather, with the company JAC, which makes cars of various sizes.
Logical assumptions immediately appeared on the web that the future cars of the Moskvich brand, from which it was previously decided to load the conveyor belt in Moscow, would, in fact, turn out to be JAC vehicles. Therefore, when the head of KamAZ, Sergei Kogogin, showed his namesake, the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, sketches of future new products, no one was surprised that the models in the drawings were confusingly similar to JAC’s serial products.
That’s just a pretty harmonious picture of the future Russian-Chinese friendship that was suddenly destroyed … by KamAZ itself. His press service sent journalists, to say the least, an unexpected letter, the content of which can be “translated” approximately as follows: yes, Mr. Kogogin showed Mr. Sobyanin some photos, but these are just photos, and the future Moskvich will be completely different.
– The visualized images of cars presented on the stands as part of the signing of the cooperation agreement by the mayor of Moscow S. Sobyanin and the general manager of PJSC KAMAZ S. Kogogin are not prototypes and have nothing in common with the real models that will be produced at MAZ Moskvich, – reported the KamAZ press service.
But then why was it necessary to demonstrate to the mayor of the capital these highly “visualized images of cars”? After all, it turns out that Mr. Sobyanin has honestly been cheated! And after trusting an industrial partner, he has already promised to produce about 600 cars by the end of the year, a third of which will be purely electric vehicles.
Formally, the letter sounded like KamAZ refused to produce Chinese JAC cars at the Moskvich plant. Although most likely it was not KamAZ who refused, but JAC. The Russian auto giant has now been identified as the target of targeted sanctions by the United States. And its partners (including factories from China) began to assess the potential risks.
And it cannot be excluded that the danger of secondary sanctions forced the “heavenly” side to withdraw from the project. Or KAMAZ workers wanted reality. That is, without waiting for the consent of the “heavenly” automaker, they rushed to prepare a project for the revival of the Moskvich brand, hoping to obtain permission to ship car kits “retroactively.” power”. And for this, Hefei gave them a “beat up”.
In any case, the situation turned out to be idiotic. Was it really impossible to show abstract cars on the sketches and not take real pictures of real cars? Either the experience wasn’t enough, or the spirit. And now, thanks to just one oversight, the whole project looks like pure Manilovism, and any subsequent statements about it will cause skepticism both from experts and ordinary people.
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Photo: mos.ru.
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Photo: mos.ru.
Let’s face it: truck and car production are “two big differences”. And so the expert community was rightly surprised: How can the truck giant’s specialists help restart a purely passenger conveyor? However, a very serious asset was found in the sleeve of KAMAZ workers – this is a partnership with the Chinese auto industry. Or rather, with the company JAC, which makes cars of various sizes.
Logical assumptions immediately appeared on the web that the future cars of the Moskvich brand, from which it was previously decided to load the conveyor belt in Moscow, would, in fact, turn out to be JAC vehicles. Therefore, when the head of KamAZ, Sergei Kogogin, showed his namesake, the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, sketches of future new products, no one was surprised that the models in the drawings were confusingly similar to JAC’s serial products.
That’s just a pretty harmonious picture of the future Russian-Chinese friendship that was suddenly destroyed … by KamAZ itself. His press service sent journalists, to say the least, an unexpected letter, the content of which can be “translated” approximately as follows: yes, Mr. Kogogin showed Mr. Sobyanin some photos, but these are just photos, and the future Moskvich will be completely different.
– The visualized images of cars presented on the stands as part of the signing of the cooperation agreement by the mayor of Moscow S. Sobyanin and the general manager of PJSC KAMAZ S. Kogogin are not prototypes and have nothing in common with the real models that will be produced at MAZ Moskvich, – reported the KamAZ press service.
But then why was it necessary to demonstrate to the mayor of the capital these highly “visualized images of cars”? After all, it turns out that Mr. Sobyanin has honestly been cheated! And after trusting an industrial partner, he has already promised to produce about 600 cars by the end of the year, a third of which will be purely electric vehicles.
Formally, the letter sounded like KamAZ refused to produce Chinese JAC cars at the Moskvich plant. Although most likely it was not KamAZ who refused, but JAC. The Russian auto giant has now been identified as the target of targeted sanctions by the United States. And its partners (including factories from China) began to assess the potential risks.
And it cannot be excluded that the danger of secondary sanctions forced the “heavenly” side to withdraw from the project. Or KAMAZ workers wanted reality. That is, without waiting for the consent of the “heavenly” automaker, they rushed to prepare a project for the revival of the Moskvich brand, hoping to obtain permission to ship car kits “retroactively.” power”. And for this, Hefei gave them a “beat up”.
In any case, the situation turned out to be idiotic. Was it really impossible to show abstract cars on the sketches and not take real pictures of real cars? Either the experience wasn’t enough, or the spirit. And now, thanks to just one oversight, the whole project looks like pure Manilovism, and any subsequent statements about it will cause skepticism both from experts and ordinary people.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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