According to the Association of European Businesses (AEB), the Ford Transit commercial vehicle manufactured at the automotive plant in the SEZ Alabuga was the 2017 best-selling LCV of a foreign brand. The sales of the Ford commercial vehicles totalled 9600, which is some 31.6% of foreign-brand LCV sales in Russia and an increase of 9.2 percentage points compared to the previous year.
Ford Transit, whose production was localised at the Ford Sollers plant in the Alabuga SEZ, is the main contributor to the success of Ford's commercial vehicles on the Russian market. In 2017, a total of 9031 Ford Transit vehicles were sold, which is an increase by 62.4% y-o-y. Ford Transit buyers include large Russian and foreign companies, as well as federal and regional government structures, which are interested in the renewal of their transport infrastructures.
Based on Ford Sollers press service information