Production of the Chevy Damas and Chevy Labo is ongoing in the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan – in fact, production is actually increasing. Government-owned UzAuto Motors, formerly GM Uzbekistan, recently announced that it has completed a program to increase production volume for the Chevy Damas and Chevy Labo with the intention of reaching an annual production capacity of 150,000 units. The production increase is expected to considerably speed up the vehicle delivery process.
UzAuto Motors steel press shop
In a press release issued in Uzbek and translated into English using Google Translate, UzAuto Motors outlines how it has gradually increased its production capacity since 2016, with volume increasing nearly five fold over the course of the last six years. UzAuto Motors reports that it built 93,120 units during the 2022 calendar year.
The increase in production of the Chevy Damas and Chevy Labo is supported by a new press shop in Pitnak. Spanning an area of more than 1 hectare (or 107,639 square feet) the press shop can stamp out body parts from 12 thousand tons of sheet metal to create 7 million individual pieces annually for the Chevy Damas and Chevy Labo, when running at maximum capacity.
In addition, UzAuto Motors states that “localization of components, de-contenting (substitution of some components) and unification of production processes” will support the company’s increased production ambitions, while also reducing imports.
For those readers who may be unaware, Uz-DaewooAuto was founded in 1992 between state-owned UzAvtosanoat and South Korean automaker Daewoo, with production of its first vehicles beginning in 1996 in Asaka. After Daewoo’s collapse and eventual change of ownership, the automaker became GM Uzbekistan in 2008 as a joint venture between UzAvtosanoat JSC and General Motors. In 2019, the Uzbekistan government acquired the company, at which time it was renamed UzAuto Motors.
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Legacy of Daewoo
Loved Daewoo, my ex father commit suicide inside his 1995 Daewoo Espero CD 4 doors sedan at the parkin lot at Camara Municipal SP Pca da Bandeira at the night of 8 to 9 May 2001, so we lost our father so in a Daewoo but me and wife drove the car, it was very good. From the Stúpid BMW Munich at project series 6, which bavarians gave no right value, took a 747 british airways plane in 2 days 12 h flight to see him at crematorium… so it was and the bs people here make the dislikes… f-off guys here
If it is now government owned, does it build these Chevrolets under license from gm?
Don’t know why you got downvoted, seems a perfectly legit question to me.
I actually don’t see any Chevy logos. That being the case, I’m wondering why it’s here on this blog if it no longer has anything to do with GM.
Damas means ladies in Spanish, not sure what Labo means, possibly an abbreviation for laboratory. Not your run of the mill Chevrolet names.
As far as the downvote, probably some cantankerous old fart with nothing better to do, or possibly the writer trying to stir things up. C’est la vie…
think Labo comes from Labour … for the small work force, because if you see the versions as pick up and other cabs you see a major goal for florists, civil construction, small business etc. from population
if … when had 18 years old … had this for my own … to go to university … instead fighting at home to have allowed to use mom’s car everytime… would be the happiest student of USP Mechanical Engineering at 1989-1993 times
do not understand the unlike, but the rich north american, majority of GMA readers, does not know how hard at own own is to pay a car very simple in Brasil to have the freedom. In USA with lot of subsids anyone has a car, not depending on bus or metro, but in south america and here in germany and other european cities car is very expensive, propose USA people lives in Brasil with Brasil salaries which means the minimum of R$ 1320 to see how hard is to get a popular R$ 80 000 car itself, then after you make your dislike after burning your skin first at buses in Sao Paulo
Good job IROC Z Man. Your English writing skills are improving.
I was recently in Uzbekistan. It is just amazing to see how many of these there are crawling the streets there. You’ll see literally a thousand a day there.
Ist there the possibility to import DAMAS to Russia