Cross, but not Chevrolet

AvtoVAZ finally refused a joint project with General Motors to build engine plant. On the eve of the board of directors rejected the Togliatti auto giant's notorious last sentence of the companions of buying a German engine plant in Bochum, and thereby put the project on the cross. Talks about the organization of modern production engines and transmissions in Togliatti began during the establishment of joint ventures for the production of Chevrolet Niva. The joint motors are intended for the production joint venture (we are talking primarily about export versions of the Chevrolet Niva) and promising VAZ cars. But do dzhiemovtsy invest in new production apparently did not intend. For the engine plant dzhiemovtsy already requested $ 300 million is almost half of what was spent on the organization of modern production Kalina! It is not surprising that invest in overseas hopeless enterprise that kind of money vazovtsy did not know how much would cost such motors? Now the WHA will return to its own program of development of motor production, and General Motors will seek other buyers. This means that neither the Euro-Niva, no cheap versions of Viva, we did not see.