Overview
Zaporizhzhia Automobile Building Plant went down in the history of Ukraine as a first-born of domestic combine-building, then it became the first company in the country, which mastered manufacturing of small class vehicles. The plant was growing, constructing, rising from the ruins, modernizing, re-profiling, retraining, but kept going forward, following the main course directed for manufacturing of high-quality domestic vehicle.
1959 saw the beginning of passenger cars manufacturing in Ukraine. Totally (from 1960 to 1994) there were 3,422,444 "Zaporozhets" vehicles manufactured in Zaporizhia and engines with air-cooling in Melitopol. in 1988 the serial production of "Tavria" family passenger cars was started in Zaporizhia and manufacturing of engines with liquid cooling - in Melitopol.
In 1998 The Joint Ukrainian-Korean Venture with Foreign Investment in the form of a Closed Joint Stock Company "AvtoZAZ-DAEWOO" was registered. Manufacturing of a new "Tavria-nova" car was started. Works on production preparation were completed and SKD assembly of the European level vehicles "Lanos", "Nubira", "Leganza" was started in Illichivsk Plant of Automobile Units (SSS "IPAU").
| Picture | Model | Produced |
|---|---|---|
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1102 Tavria | 1989-1997 |
| 1102 Tavria Nova | 1998-2007 | |
| 1103 Slavuta | 1998-0 | |
| 1105 Dana | 1994-1997 | |
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11055 Pick-up | 1998-0 |
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965 Zaporozhets | 1960-1969 |
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966 Zaporozhets | 1967-1972 |
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968 Zaporozhets | 1972-1994 |
| Lanos | 2004-0 | |
| Lanos Pick-up | 2005-0 | |
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Sens | 2005-0 |
| ?-? |