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Georgian auto industry on the rise: deliveries of cars from the Caucasus increased by 300%


And the volumes of deliveries of t / c are already comparable to flour products with meat filling: since the beginning of 2023, Georgia has increased the export of passenger cars to the Russian Federation – attention! – three times, as well as several times to the EAEU countries. As the Kommersant newspaper “suggests”, these cars are also generally sent to Russia. Well, you must! This has never happened before, and here it is again!

And now the question is: how many Georgian automobile factories and brands can an average Russian motorist name? I see a gray-haired hand in the back row: Kutaisi Automobile Plant! At the peak of its power, the company assembled as many as 5,700 cars a year! I will say even more: in free Georgia, they were able to produce not only trucks, but also the much-needed, hotly desired and scarce garden-plantation tractors “Rioni”, which today are commonly called a walk-behind tractor.

Believe it or not, there were even special tea-picking machines. More exotic: in Tbilisi, at a car repair plant, they made buses with wooden bodies! This is real ecology, this is European! Unfortunately, all of the above is closely connected not so much with Georgia as with the Georgian SSR. As soon as the Union collapsed, the local auto industry went the same way as the rest. Well, except for khinkali…

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