RusAutoNews.Com – St. Petersburg based Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus factory has increased production by 3% during the first quarter of 2014, in comparison with the same period of the previous year, with 58,540 automobiles. 33,630 of the manufactured automobiles are Hyundai Solaris and the remaining 24,910: KIA Rio.
The sales figures of Solaris and Rio in Russia for the first three months of the year are 25,444 (+0.2%) and 20,926 (+5.8%), respectively. 6860 of the automobiles manufactured during the first quarter have been exported to foreign markets such as; Kazakhstan and CIS countries. This amount is equivalent to 11.7% of production.
The General Director of the company: Shin Meng Ki has stated that the factory is currently operating in full capacity. Hyundai is aiming to manufacture 230,000 automobiles in 2014.
