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The former VW car factory in Kaluga gets rid of gearboxes and engines

The nodes and assemblies from the reserves from the warehouses are sold. As the Avtopotok telegram channel found out, you can buy 1.4-liter turbo engines and machine guns, which were placed on Volkswagen and Skoda Russian assembly. The minimum batch for shipment is six units, but the prices are below market ones: the engines cost from 65 thousand rubles, and the gearboxes – from 44 thousand.

The Kaluga plant, which is currently preparing to launch serial production of Tenet cars, began to sell components last year. So, at the end of the summer of 2024, crankshafts, sides of the bodies for Volkswagen Taos and Skoda Karoq, as well as body panels for Tiguan appeared on sale.

The Volkswagen ex-Wolks in Kalug will produce 110 thousand cars in 2025 by the production of new Tenet brand machines will begin in Russia in the second quarter the new Russian brand Tenet will produce at least three crossovers: they are disclosed

Now the turbo engines and gearboxes are proposed for Volkswagen TaOS, Skoda Karoq, Octavia and other concern models, which produced in Russia until the spring of 2022. The engines can only be taken with self -gear, but complete with a turbine, wiring, intercooler, with a disc under the automatic transmission. But without a compressor, air conditioning and generator.

After the departure of Volkswagen from Russia, the Kaluga production site passed by AGR. For a long time, the plant was in simple, until at the beginning of 2025 it was announced the launch of the new Tenet automobile brand. Under this brand in Kaluga, the release of crossovers is organized – renamed Chery models. Tenet’s firstborn will be the 32T crossover – this is the Chergo 7l, 3XT will follow it based on Tiggo 4, and the third model will be 31T – it is probably Tiggo 8 Pro Max.

Mass production of Tenet cars at the former Volkswagen plant in Kalug will begin in the second quarter of this year (April-June), and at the first stage the cars will be assembled by large-sized assembly. The volumes of release are planned to be gradually increased and, in the future, switch to release in a complete cycle with welding and coloring.

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