After Renault announced its departure this week from the Russian auto market amid the country's war with Ukraine, Moscow's mayor announced its factory will be used to restart the defunct Soviet-era Moskvich car brand.
Renault sells Soviet-era icon Lada as it exits Russia, for nowLittle known outside the former Soviet Union and its satellite countries, Moskvich was founded around 1930 and operated until 1991. As with many car brands from Communist bloc countries, Moskvich struggled with quality problems. The Muskovich 408 of the 1960s, which had a 50-horsepower engine, was even cited by Soviet officials for numerous defects, according to the book"Cars for Comrades" by Lewis Siegelbaum.
"Therefore, I have made a decision to record the plant as a city asset and resume the production of passenger cars under the historical Moskvich brand.""In 2022, we are turning a new page in the history of Moskvich," Sobyanin added.The company will try to keep all the plant's current employees working there, the mayor wrote. The factory will also try to get most of the cars' parts from Russian firms.
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