Autostat – St. Petersburg Toyota plant has manufactured 66.684 automobiles in 2017 – a 70,7% year-on-year increase, highlighting the figures of the year as the best ever in the history of the plant.
In particular, 31,970 Toyota Camry business-sedans (+2,7% y/y) and 34.714 RAV4 crossovers (4,4 times growth) have been manufactured in 2017. As one may remember, Toyota RAV4 production started in St. Petersburg plant last year in August.
Previously, in 2015, the annual production capacity of the St. Petersburg Toyota plant had been doubled from 50,000 automobiles to 100,000. The investment made in the capacity expansion project for the facility and Toyota RAV4 production currently amounts to 9.7 billion rubles.
In addition, St. Petersburg Toyota plant continues automobile production for Kazakh and Belarusian markets. 6535 automobiles have been delivered to the aforementioned countries in 2017 (+92%), 4337 units Camry and 2198 units RAV4 vehicles respectively.
