Journalists have checked "Chevrolet Niva»

On Friday, April 9, at the press tour "GM-AvtoVAZ" to journalists in the Volga region held a test drive of the new Russian SUV "Niva Chevrolet." The show, prepared by the organizers, had to taste all those present. Under the energetic music one after the other journalists were getting into a brand new "Chevrolet-Niva" and went to surf the site. The weather was lucky on the night from Thursday to Friday dropped a lot of snow. As admitted at a press conference General Director of JV "GM-AvtoVAZ" John Mylonas, he prayed that the day of the test drive was just such weather. Mud, puddles, snow, broken earthen road barriers - through it all had to go to Russian SUV. And with this task successfully. The organizers have prepared a three car "Chevrolet-Niva", one regular "Field" (VAZ-2121) and one model of GAZ-69. In the test-drive everyone took part, including representatives of the beautiful half of humanity. Each driver has admitted that "the Chevrolet-Niva" more comfortable and controllable. This was preceded by a test-drive of the press conference said, and representatives of the plant. According to the manager of the existing production models Sergei Zakharchenko, "Chevrolet-Niva" combines all the functionality of an SUV plus properties AVTOVAZ elegant appearance, comfort and convenience. Our correspondent also managed to sit behind the wheel of the car and personally experience the charm of terrain passing on "Chevrolet Niva." In his view, the car is very well behaved in extreme conditions. In addition, our staff, having the same piece of track on the VAZ "Cornfield", admitted that the car is a joint venture for a unique off-road is preferred. Recall that Russia's new SUV, "Chevrolet Niva" was developed by designers of "AvtoVAZ", which bought the American concern «General Motors». In the summer of 2001, a joint venture "GM-AvtoVAZ". In addition to finance and equipment in the car GM has made several design improvements, proprietary technology and management system. September 23, 2002 was launched by the assembly plant, and rolled off the first car. By the end of the first year of work was produced 456 cars. By 2005, the company plans to reach production capacity of 75 thousand cars annually. Nikita Sukhachev Photo: Nicholas Tatarnikov