At the Mazda Sollers joint venture plant in Vladivostok, serial production of the large seven-seat crossover CX-9 started. This is the third Mazda model, the Assembly of which is organized in Vladivostok, where the CX-5 crossover and the Mazda 6 sedan are already produced, Vesti Primorye reports, citing the press service of the automaker.
In preparation of the production site to the release of a new crossover at the factory jointly by Russian and Japanese experts was carried out modernization of the equipment Assembly and test lines, changes were made in technological processes of Assembly. In accordance with the dimensions of the body CX-9 (length reaches 5,07 m), which significantly exceed the size of the models produced at the enterprise, Assembly elevators and manipulators were upgraded.