For now, GM Russia is focused on selling a selection of non-mainstream vehicles from the Chevrolet and Cadillac portfolios. However, following the sale of GM’s 50-percent stake in production of the Chevrolet Niva to AvtoVAZ earlier this month, General Motors currently has no manufacturing presence in the country. As such, the origin of GM Russia’s vehicle inventory has been somewhat of a mystery.
Some have speculated that the vehicles are imported from China, or possibly even the Middle East. Both guesses are incorrect – GM doesn’t even have factories in the Middle East.
We did some legwork, and discovered that in fact all GM Russia vehicles are actually sourced directly from the United States.
As stated above, the GM Russia portfolio includes non-mainstream models from Chevrolet and Cadillac. Each of these models is produced in the U.S., and then shipped over to Russia for sale.
Below, we’ve listed every GM passenger vehicle currently sold in Russia, followed by its respective U.S.-based manufacturing plant in parentheses:
Chevrolet
Cadillac
- Cadillac ATS (Lansing Grand River, MI) (discontinued last year)
- Cadillac CTS (Lansing Grand River, MI)
- Cadillac CT6 (Detroit-Hamtramck, MI)
- Cadillac Escalade (Arlington, TX)
- Cadillac XT4 (Fairfax, KS)
- Cadillac XT5 (Spring Hill, TN)
- Cadillac XT6 (Spring Hill, TN)
As we covered previously, General Motors plans to expand its presence in the Russian market, and is currently opening up new dealerships in select locations.
Last week, we also outlined how we think GM is missing a big opportunity by not bringing its line of rough-stuff-ready Chevy pickups to play in the Russian market, especially given the increasing popularity of off-roading and overlanding currently underway in the country.
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Comments
How about covering what matters.
How much do the sell?
How much profit?
How much is there to loose should Russia get shut off with sanctions?
What is the real growth of their market with projections?
In the end it is about money and risk. If it was such a gold mine they would be expanding like China but yet we see great reservations. Let’s hear both sides of the story.
Gm sells about 20000 vehicles in total per year.
Kinda 90+% of them are local made Chevrolet-Niva (and in December gm fully sold their share to avtovaz) , normal Chevy and Caddy models are about 1000 per year per brand or even less.
In fact, in 2019 gm Russia sees 23% drop in sales compared to same Jan-Nov period of 2018.
As far as I can see, our local pricing is almost the same as in US, or quite similar. I bought my 2019 Tahoe premier for about 69k$, for example.
But overall purchasing power of the population is very very low, usually people think about where to get money to buy food, not to buy new car (not speaking of Moscow, its another country in country in fact).