MOSCOW. Aug 22 (Interfax-AVN) - The Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant (UAZ) is to put a new car series on mass production in 2003.
"Our new goods traditionally target the military, the police and farmers," Igor Larionov, spokesman for the UAZ marketing directorate, told Interfax-Military News Agency at the MIMS-2002 automobile show on Thursday.
The Ulyanovsk plant will proceed with making four-wheel- drive cars of the 31512 family, traditionally used by the military and the police. Next year will see mass production of UAZ-315195 (totally 16,000 pieces), base-priced at USD6,500- 7,000, which are expected to be equipped with a new gasoline four- cilynder 16-valve ZMZ-409.10 engine with an integrated ignition and fuel injection control system microprocessor. These new- family engines meet Euro-2 international eco-standards," the spokesman said.
Today the baseline 31512 automobiles are sold by the auto maker at RUB105,000 (USD3,320). "UAZ makes a six-percent discount for law-enforcement agencies," Larionov said.
In 2003, the Ulyanovsk plant targets a 2,000 to 4,000 UAZ- 23608 pickup-trucks production, approximately USD7,000-7,500 each piece. These cars will have 2.24-liter ZMZ-5143.10 engines developing 98hp.
A new Russian jeep designated UAZ-31622 (4,000 of them), base-priced at USD12,000, is also on the next-year production plan, coupled with UAZ-23632 pickup-cars with a redundant driver's cabin (1,000 items), also at basic USD12,000.