Still, the first attempt to produce Altai cars was about 15 years ago, and since then a lot has changed on the market
Russia will begin producing trucks under the Altai Trucks brand. The brand will be officially presented at the end of May in Moscow, details are already available.
The Altai Trucks line will include four models of varying payload capacity: from the heavy four-axle tractor MAYMA 460 to the ARGUT 90 with a total weight of 3.5 tons. Production will be carried out by Keystone Auto, associated with the St. Petersburg logistics company Keystone Logistics.
Chinese vehicles will be produced under the Altai Trucks brand. For example, the medium-duty Altai MULTA 200 is visually very similar to the Wanshan WS4180. Other models also have complete Chinese copies.
As reported by the telegram channel «Trucks and in general», trucks under the Altai brand were already produced in Russia, and they were also copies of «Chinese» (FAW). «This happened in the late 2000s in Biysk; then the project „didn’t take off“», — explained the telegram channel.