From autoblog.com
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Filed under: Renault, Russia
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All eyes have been on Renault since acquiring a 25% stake in Russian automaker Avtovaz. The French carmaker headed by the venerable Carlos Ghosn beat out Fiat and General Motors to acquire the interest in Lada's parent company, but then the economy tanked and Ghosn was left holding his hat.
Original plans centered around new product launches to re-invigorate...
- Ricardo to Partner with KATE LLC On New 7-Speed Automatic for AvtoVAZ Lada Cars (greencarcongress.com)
Are you familiar with Lada? No? Let me refresh. It is the bargain basement Russian car (think the Red Square's version of the Fiat Panda or Citroen 4CV), mass produced in huge quantities during the 1980s...
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From blogs.motortrend.com
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Yeah yeah, the car that gets the highest lap total gets the overall win at a 24 Hours Of LeMons race, but the insiders know who deserves the real respect! Jalopnik readers should be proud, because our own Comrade Teargaskov's team will be taking home the much-coveted Index Of Effluency trophy from The Lamest Day. The '87 Lada Niva wasn't very fast around the track- well, in fact it was quite slow- but the team didn't get a single black flag...
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From jalopnik.com
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Internet access is difficult at best here at Nelson Ledges, so live updates are going to be few and short. At the moment, the Charlie Foxtrot Racing BMW 325i leads. The Lada broke down early and often, but (much like the old Soviet Union) keeps staggering back out for more laps. The story with the '61 Cadillac has been much the same. This is a fast, fast track, with broken parts galore; I'd say that at least 30 cars are now out with major...
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From jalopnik.com
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Russia's largest carmaker, Avtovaz, is to cut up to 27,600 jobs as it tries to cope with the global slump in demand.
The job cuts are more than a quarter of the 102,000-strong workforce at Avtovaz, which makes Lada cars.
From b92.net
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- Avtovaz to cut quarter of its workforce (industry.bnet.com)
- Maker Of Lada Cars Slashes 27,000 Jobs (story.indiagazette.com)
MOSCOW — Russia is trying alternately to woo and to strong-arm Renault into helping to pay for a rescue of its largest carmaker, the manufacturer of the boxy Lada sedans that was just eking by before the financial crisis swept the globe, and is now ...
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From search.msn.com
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Hunderte Beschäftigte des angeschlagenen russischen Lada-Produzenten Avtovaz haben in der Wolga-Stadt Togliatti gegen die Streichung von mindestens 5.000 Arbeitsplätzen protestiert. Die Demonstranten verabschiedeten am Samstag auch eine Erklärung an Regierungschef Wladimir Putin, in der unter anderem der Rücktritt der Unternehmensleitung sowie eine Erhöhung des Monatslohns auf 25.000 Rubel (rund 570 Euro) gefordert wird, wie die Agentur...
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From ad-hoc-news.de
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