Lada Granta production on pause: AvtoVAZ suspends production of bestseller

The assembly line will be stopped from April 25 due to modernization

[News updated at 11:20 AM 04/08/2025]

AvtoVAZ has announced the suspension of production of Lada Granta cars from April 25 of this year. This day will be the last working day before the start of the downtime, which will last due to a large-scale modernization of the assembly line.

Lada Granta
Lada Granta

In the period from April 28 to April 30, employees of the enterprise will receive 2/3 of their salaries and tariff rates. From May 1 to May 11, the plant will begin its spring corporate vacation, during which work will also not be carried out.

Specialists will be engaged in readjusting and re-equipping the production line for the launch of a new model — Lada Iskra.

Lada Granta remains the company's undisputed bestseller. The modernization of the assembly line is aimed at improving production processes and launching new models.

The press service of AvtoVAZ denies information about the production shutdown.

This is fake.
Press service of AvtoVAZ

Updated. As of 11:20 AM 04/08/2025

Earlier www1.ru reported that Russians are massively switching to domestic cars.

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