Cars have already appeared at dealers
AvtoVAZ wants to sell up to 50 thousand Lada Vesta NG cars with a CVT this year, as stated by the editor-in-chief of the magazine «Behind the Wheel» Maxim Kadakov.
According to my data, in 2024 the total sales of all modifications of Vesta with a CVT can reach 40-50 thousand cars. There are units in the required quantities, there is a demand for such machines – Same. In the future, they want to increase the share of Vesta modifications with a CVT to 50%. If we take into account the potential demand from the population, business and government agencies – quite achievable figure.
Maxim Kadakov
He added that so far the Lada Vesta NG with a CVT has not appeared at all dealers, but AvtoVAZ promises that the cars will soon appear in showrooms. As we have already reported, the cars have arrived at St. Petersburg dealerships of the «Pragmatika» network, while the dealer does not consider the new Solaris a competitor to AvtoVAZ’s flagship.
Kadakov rightly adds that the difference between the Lada Vesta NG with a manual transmission and a 106-horsepower engine, as well as the new version with a CVT and a 122-horsepower engine, is only 75,000 rubles: «When- then the rugs were sold for that kind of money».
I assumed that the price range would be greater. In this sense, AvtoVAZ surprised. Although the maximum prices – for a cross-station wagon in top performance – they still go for 2 million rubles. And one more good news. Until the end of this year, if AvtoVAZ raises prices, it will be only slightly – and, most likely, even lower than the official inflation rate. In particular, for almost the first time in many years, the plant has not raised prices since the beginning of this year – although I always did this before.
Maxim Kadakov