Granta successor coming in 2027
Thumbs twiddling in jail? Forget it. At least, if you are in prison in Russia. Lada’s parent company is said to have asked a local prison to help meet its production targets.
According to Automotive News, AvtoVaz – Lada’s parent company – has asked a regional prison to use forced labor in its factories. AvtoVaz is said to be facing a serious shortage of personnel, partly due to the partial mobilization that Russia announced in September.
According to Automotive News, Russia’s Federal Prison Service (FSIN) has said it has sat down with AvtoVaz. The Russian company would like to increase its production numbers by tens of percent. AvtoVaz itself would not comment on the matter.
More Lada-related news concerns the Granta. The Russian Interfax writes that the Lada Granta family – with which Lada merged the complete Kalina family in 2018 – will be replaced in 2027 by a new extended model series that should be called Iskra. The Iskra series would at least include a sedan and a station wagon.
The cars would initially be placed on Renault’s modern CMF-B platform for Lada, a basis that you will also find under cars such as the Clio and Captur. It may also be the cheaper variant of that technique, which is also used by Dacia. It is not yet clear whether and how AvtoVaz will unleash that technology at Renault – which has already pulled its hands off Lada. Recently, Lada already went to a Chinese manufacturer for a new model. Lada would be on the hunt for “new suppliers and new components”.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl