Daimler will collect Mercedes Zile

German carmaker Daimler is considering several sites for the production of Mercedes in Russia. The company is exploring the possibility of a design of its vehicles in Moscow on the territory of "ZIL".

Joint venture with the Moscow mayor's office and Sberbank - "Mosavtozil" is in talks with Daimler on production in the Metropolitan area of Mercedes cars. The last round of talks was held last week, the sides await a decision of the Council of heads of Daimler, which will gather in the middle of July.

German manufacturer hopes to build in Russia a large number of models, even the automobile top-end sedans. But information about the size and timing of the likely start of production yet. Negotiations are held with a number of Russian enterprises, approved adept Mercedes in Russia Andrey Rodionov, but to present the details of the negotiations he denied, informs RBC.

"Mosavtozil" is negotiating with 3 potential partners - car manufacturers on building their models on the site, "ZIL", said the Director of the Department of transport and special machinery Alexander Morozov, without naming them. 2 top managers of domestic offices of international manufacturers of components known about negotiations Daimler and "Mosavtosteklo". We are talking about small-scale large-unit Assembly. The public relations division of the German company failed to give any explanations.

That Daimler is looking for a site for the construction of the Mercedes in Russia and can organize the production of luxury sedans on "KAMAZ", it became known in June. German explore the possibility to create on this plant Mercedes-Benz S-class (model W222). The car manufacturer is afraid of restrictions that the government may impose on the purchase of foreign cars for the state needs. To get around this, the company will need local production.

The Ministry of industry and trade has proposed to restrict purchases of foreign cars in autumn 2013. So the authorities wanted to keep working in Russia car manufacturers and dealers, complaining about the market decline. The order should be signed and enter into force before April 1, then the term of signing was postponed twice, on 1 June and 1 July. While it is left for revision to the Vice Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich.

At Daimler has been working in Russia joint venture with KAMAZ, which publishes in Naberezhnye Chelny trucks under the brand of Mercedes-Benz (Daimler owns 11% of "KAMAZ"). And the GAZ group gathers in Russia under the contract vans Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Classic. Main rivals brands are already being produced in Russia. Kaliningrad's Avtotor collects luxury sedans BMW since the 1990-ies, and the Volkswagen plant in Kaluga produces the Audi A6 and A8 - brand enters the group of WV. "In the Assembly of a small number of luxury cars no economic necessity, - said the top Manager of the Russian office of international concerns. - It is likely, Daimler wants to create her for image purposes".

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