The solemn ceremony passed right in the workshop of finished products. The lyrical melody of violin and pipes changed the vigorous sounds of music in the style of movies about, and directly to the first row of spectators, where he was surrounded by the leadership of Tatarstan and the Deputy Minister of Industry, drove up the White Explorer Sport. After a second, he caught up with black "brothers" in Limited and XLT.
This Trinity is "firstborn" not only for Russia, but also for the entire European continent: before that they were collected only in America.
Previously, no one was allowed for production. As "Gazeta.Ru" told, even when a commercial video for the SEZ "Alabuga" was shot, the film crew remained outside. They had to confine themselves to the shooting of new cars standing at the walls of the plant. In vain they did not let them. The gray walls of the plant are decorated with details painted in the colors of dusty roses, violets, young foliage and blue sky. Such designer delights would be interested in fashion magazines, not only automotive.
Brief welcoming speeches of high guests, except journalists, managed to listen to the group of workers in uniform specialists, lined up by a semicircle, as in group photography. In total, the Ford plant works a half thousand people, and thanks to the new model added another 500 vacancies. True, the head of the Nail Yusupov assembly shop assured "Gazeta.Ru" here, they are satisfied with local forces. 70% of workers are residents of nearby Elabugi, Nizhnekamsk and Naberezhnye Chelny, the rest from other regions of Tatarstan. The industrial past Motherland and the last loud Soviet project, "Elaza", allows not to carry workers from all over the country, as is done in Kaluga, and do not overpack each other, as in Vsevolozhsk.
"When outside the window of February 69, it's time to buy SUVs," Alexey Rakhmanov joked.
Elabugu, despite the middle of April and the seven degrees of warmth promised by the forecast, was covered with a strongest blizzard. Because of her, Kazan journalists did not hit the ceremony, and the test drive in the area had to be replaced by a short "loop" on the track. The first for the steering wheel of the Ford, the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, known as an amateur fast driving. His trip was brief, but saturated.
The SUV returned with the brakes reddened from overheating and the pale general director.
Thus, the Russian has already seven ford models. At the factory in Tatarstan collect Ford Transit., S-max and galaxy, but in the large-sized assembly mode, as well as new Kuga.But from the third quarter of this year it will also be transferred to a full cycle. There is still Focus and Mondeo, collected at the factory in the Leningrad region - there, by the way, the full cycle has already been implemented.
Every ten minutes from the conveyor will go new car. This is not the highest indicator, but gradually it is promised to increase it. In total, the factory is planned to produce 65 thousand cars per year, of which 10 thousand will have to be on Explorer.
Ford Explorer Sport is positioned not only as a stylish all-wheel drive SUV, but also a car with a sports spirit. The ability to drive through off-road driving a car will cost 2,158,000 rubles. For this money new model, now available on the Russian market, is completed with the ecoBoost 3.5-V6 cyturbo engine with a capacity of 360 liters. from. and 6-speed automatic box SELECTSHIFT gear with the possibility of switching gear using submissive petals. Externally Explorer Sport is allocated due to black 20-inch alloy wheel disks and black decor elements.
Initially, planned to collect only one Sport model, told Ted Kannis, but then decided to do all three configurations. For 1,798,000 rubles, a baseline option is proposed in the XLT configuration with a Cyclone V6 engine of 3.5 liters and a capacity of 294 liters. from. The model is also equipped with an intelligent TERRAIN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM system operating in four modes - "City", "Dirt", "Sand", "Snow". In version Limited for 1,977,000 rubles, all these advantages are added leather Salon, two panoramic Luca and premium class audio system from Sony.
Ford Explorer - SUV, which began in 1991. Since 2010, on the roads, we see the fifth generation of Explorer. And today B. ford review Explorer Tatar assembly, on which I drove over 4000 km. in Russia-)
There are only two places in the world where Ford Explorer: Chicago (Illinois) and Elabuga (Republic of Tatarstan) are produced.
The car was tested by mountains, fields, lakes and completely diverse. road conditions and coatings. Explorer behaved everywhere equally calmly. I would say this is the most "calm" (family) car tested by me in recent years.
I already tested Explorer american assembly, Ask if there is a difference with the car from Elabugi? Absolutely no. Although, for example, Nissan English assembly differs from the Russian counterpart.
Ford car assembly at Ford Sollers in Elabuga began in January 2012. Today, Ford continues to develop in the domestic market, attracting the CHEVROLET competitor's former concern dealers to cooperate, which was forced to leave Russia.
Let us turn to the features of the car - Ford Explorer has a bright external appearance, confused on the road it is complicated with someone. Outward car-cast.
In 2014 ford. Changing power power plants For Russian taxes. So, for example, a 294-strong engine is defined up to 249 forces, and a more powerful 360-strong option has lost only 15 "horses" (345 hp). At the same time, these innovations have not affected the dynamic characteristics, but now the buyer can significantly save on transport tax.
Explorer is ideal for a blogger - there is a Wi-Fi router in the car, which can create an Internet access point for five mobile devices. You can surf on the Internet directly from an eighty-chimney display. on-board computer.
By the way, ten years ago I already had an SUV Ford Explorer II generation. Then there was no, as now, systems intellectual drive Terrain ManagementTM (Available Five modes of operation: "City", "Snow", "Sand", "Dirt" and "Descent from the slope"). Four-wheel drive The car perfectly copes with the harsh Russian conditions.
Ford Explorer Limited already in the basic version has a sufficiently good package: a pleasant interior design and finishing materials high Quality, Cooling seats, belts and airbags for passengers rear seats, Electric lift / tilt of the third row of seats.
Key Joker Explorer is an extremely attractive price of the car against the backdrop of competitors Price, the cost begins with a mark of 2.099.000 rubles.
Specially searched for shortcomings russian assembly In trifles. During the operation, I noticed only one disadvantage - the lack of xenon. But it is temporary and does not apply to Elabuga (No xenon options) - Restyled crossover Ford. Explorer will appear in 2016.
As for the decoration of the cabin, they don't even adhere to here, the front of the car received a soft plastic under its control and sufficiently high-quality skin.
On the third row, even faded adult men are calm - tested for friends-)
In general, you can safely take American full-sized crossover Russian assembly. Checked by Russia-)
The special economic zone near the "county town" of Elabuga appeared in 2006. The future of the joint venture, and at that time the automotive company Severstal-Auto LLC was the first resident of its resident: production was launched in 2007. Investors were attracted by zero property, land and transport, low ($ 1100 per hectare) cost of land, free connection to power grids and low income tax in the first years of the enterprise's existence.
Ford cars in Elabuga are produced from January 2012. There were five models at once. According to the method of large-sized assembly make Ford Kuga., S-Max, Galaxy and Transit. And the Explorer SUV became the third in Russian Ford.Collected by the full cycle (Focus and Mondeo have long been collected entirely in Vsevzhsk). The convenience of work in the free economic zone is obvious, here and Ted Cannis - CEO JV Ford Sollers, who has already gave the company for 13 years and worked in Ford several countries - says that it is the fastest launch on his memory. By the way, only about $ 100 million spent on the production lines for Explorer in Elabuga.
Complete assembly, however, call what is being done in Elabuga is difficult. For example, there is still no my stamping. The panels come ready, here they are only welded, stained, and the remaining units put on the resulting body. However, it is impossible not to admit: even the described list of works is very impressive.
The Explorer body welding process takes about 9 hours. A new set here is served every 10 minutes, in the enterprise 55 welding stations. Press, by the way, not robots, as in many other Russian-foreign and foreign industries (Hyundai in St. Petersburg, VW in Kaluga), and people with special devices, similar not to the machine for burning, not that electric strokes, enlarged to absurdly gigantic sizes.
Errors with manual welding, of course, inevitable. To reduce their number, they hold a special laboratory for measuring the body geometry. Zeiss production equipment analyzes 800 points. The permissible deviation from the norm is 1.5 mm. True, a laboratory is able to analyze only two bodies, so checking, of course, selective. The plant intends to produce up to 10 thousand Ford Explorer per year - an accurate figure will depend on the market requests, in 2012, for example, requested just over two thousand Ford Explorer.
We go further, see how in the body set a variety of aggregates. The engine here put the already assembled - about the assembly of the car to the speech screws does not go, after all, there are features of the large-sized assembly. "Guide" - the head of the Welding Workshop Nadil Yusupov - boasts that all information about what is happening on the conveyor is contained in the electronic system QLS. Say, even the future buyer when accessing the system will be able to find out what stage was with the car.
The most interesting occurs already abroad assembly line. Each Ford Explorer makes 5 circles on a special test track. Here they do not accelerate to 200 km / h (what to doubt the abilities of the motor?), And noise and screens are revealed. Make it on the covered canopy test circle covered with a variety of obstacles, from a cobblestone to large plates for hanging and "washing board". The test drives with strictly registered speeds - where 20, where 40 km / h - and listens carefully. Yeah, for five circles, even deaf eyes will figure it out ...
Such a test passes absolutely every Ford car, and not just Explorer in Elabuga. Total with dough and intraproductive distances The machine can roll up to sell 40-50 kilometers. Dealers, tells the specialist, have the opportunity and the right to twist escape, if he has not exceeded 200 km. Selective cars are "twisted" for a longer time to test the tests in everyday conditions. In this case, the client when buying finds an appropriate document in its car, certifying that the mileage appeared not just so, but for production necessity.
I would not want to find such, becoming owner new Ford. Explorer in the Sport version! Its main feature - EcoBoost V6 motor with a capacity of 360 liters. from. With a reconfigured steering amplifier and other, more sports springs, suspension, in general, to control such a machine must be very nice, and "selectively test" - too. This Explorer is a new top version of the model, he pushed the version of Limited Plus to the rear plan. It costs such a car 2 million 158 thousand rubles, from chips - a system of monitoring of the dead zones BLIS, 10 adjustments of the driver and front passenger seats ...
In modern automotive world Not so easy to figure out. If earlier german cars Gathered in Germany, Japanese - in Japan, and Italian - in Italy, now plants from one manufacturer can be located in different states, and cars can be collected in many countries.
For example, let's try to figure out where to collect Ford? This company has plants more than 30 countries of the world, so it is difficult to immediately determine where the car is made.
Henry Ford first in the world applied a conveyor for the production and assembly of cars. This made it possible to strongly reduce manual work and increase the number of cars at times.
Gradually, production began to expand. A few more factories were built in the United States, and then in other countries in Europe and Asia. In Russia, the first assembly plant was built by this autoconecer. We will understand where Ford Mondeo collect, Ford Fiesta and other models of this company.
Ford Company in Russia
The issue of assembling cars is very worried about Russian motorists, as they doubt the vehicles collected in China and Russia.
Ford is very strictly following the quality, despite the place where the assembly is assembly.
The strictest control of all stages is ensured unified requirementsthat establishes the Ford Guide in the US branch.
Many motorists are interested in the question where the Ford is collected in Russia, for example, the Ford Fiesta model. We have many auto plants for the production of foreign cars. The leading position occupies St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
The first plant, which includes a full assembly cycle, was opened in the 2000s. In 2010, FordMondeo began to do on it. The modernization, the replacement of the equipment made it possible to create cars with quality not worse than Belgian. Therefore, buyers in Russia should not worry about the quality of these models.
Ford Focus 3.
The third generation of focus has become very popular in the world and is made in 122 states! Where they collect Ford Focus in Russian Federation? For Russia, he is collected in Vsevzhsk (Leningrad Region) at the Ford Sollers Auto Festival since 2011.
There are gather both five-door hatchbacks and universals. Power allows you to produce different models.
Workshops, paint chambers, assembly lines, warehouses give the company the opportunity to develop successfully.
To confirm the reliability and security of the Ford Focus model 3, all instances are tested on their own tracks of the automobile plant. FordFocus produced in Russia is not inferior in quality to its foreign colleagues.
Ford Mondeo New Generation and Ford Focus 4
These models since 2015 also produces Ford Sollers plant in Vsevzhsk. It is equipped with everyone necessary equipmentTo do in Russia cars for the local market with famous Fords.
The entire cycle is completed by a series of safety tests so that customers do not doubt reliability.
Cycle of production new Mondeo. It is about 14 hours and includes 3 stages:
- Body assembly. More than 500 parts of the body is collected practically manually, automation - only 15%.
- In the workshop, the car spends 5 hours, where manual labor also prevails.
The conveyor is used at the stage of assembling all the details together, and there are only about 1700 them, so that the car will be delivered to the owner excellent technical characteristics and attractive design.
Ford Focus - special carwhich keeps in the first place among foreigners in terms of sales of seven years in a row. For many motorists around the world, he is the best vehicle.
Ford Focus fourth generationCollected in Russia is specifically adapted for our reality. It is equipped nearby technical innovations, new engine, additional noise insulation, winter package.
It seems even modest, but internal equipment, stylish design and special features make it one of best cars for russian roads. This is confirmed by high places in sales ratings.
Ford Kuga.
There are other specially produced cars Ford. for russian marketFor example, Ford Cuga. Where are the Ford Cuga? It was created to compete with Nissan Qashqai. And the place for the manufacture chose the Sollers plant in Elabuga (Tatarstan).
The first model released in 2012 ensured further successful work on the assembly and other models - Ford Transit, Ford Fiesta, Tourneo, Explorer, Eco-Sport, Galaxy, S-Max.
In 2013, the second-release machines made on the full cycle technology appeared. This includes welding body, painting and assembly.
The price of the Ford Kug 2017 crossover did not become the transcendental due to the assembly in our country, and because it is quite well for sale.
Ford Explorer.
Ford Explorer is also going to Elabuga. 100 million dollars were spent on the launch of production lines.
On assembly lines, and there are only 55 of them, the body panels are collected and welded, the remaining parts are attached to them. The engine comes ready.
Those who are interested in how work automobile plants Ford in Russia, you can live live, how was going vehicle At any stage with help electronic system QLS.
By the way, Ford Explorer Sport with gasoline engine at 360. horse power Also collect here. Distinguishes this car another steering amplifier and a fully converted suspension.
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