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ZAZ ( Ukrainian: ЗАЗ) is a main automobile-manufacturer of Ukraine, based in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhya. It is now a part of General Motors (earlier bought by Daewoo and reselled within it). The company was earlier known as AvtoZAZ.

Full English name: Closed Joint Stock Company with foreign investment "Zaporizhia Automobile Building Plant".

Full Ukrainian name: Закрите акціонерне товариство з іноземними інвестиціями "Запорізький автомобільний завод".

Car brands produced: ZAZ, Daewoo, Chevrolet, Opel, VAZ.


1 Models


2 History

The company was set up in 1960 as ZAZ (Zaporozhskiy avtomobil'nyi zavod) to create the Soviet equivalent of the Volkswagen -- a car for the ordinary people.

The models named "Zaporozhets" ( Russian: Запорожец) were powered by an air-cooled rear mounted V4This article is about the V4 engine. There is also an article about the brain's visual area V4. A V4 is an engine in V configuration, with 4 cylinders. Lancia produced several narrow-angle V4 engines in Italy. The Ford of Europe produced two totally diffe engine made by MemMZ (based in neighboring Melitopol' ). The early model body was similar to the FiatThis article is about Fiat the automobile manufacturer. Fiat is also an English word meaning the exercise of authority. See : Fiat money, Military fiat. The Latin phrase "fiat lux" is the motto of the University of California and means "let there be light 600. A later restyling made the car look more like a NSUNSU Motorenwerke AG (normally just NSU was a German manufacturer of cars and motorcycles. History NSU began as a knitting machine manufacturer, established in the town of Neckarsulm in 1884 as the Neckarsulmer Strickmaschinenfabrik (Neckarsulm Knitting Ma Prinz . Despite low reliability and prestige of those cars, they have shown an unbeaten accessibility and popularity among Soviets, becoming the "car for pensioneers and intellectuals".

Since the 1990sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s Years: Events and trends Computers, technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other techn the factory known as AvtoZAZ. It was bought by Daewoo which has made large investmentInvestment is a term with several closely related meanings in finance and economics. It refers to the accumulation of some kind of asset in hopes of getting a future return from it. In theoretical economics, investment means the purchase (and thus the pros and established the production of its own models while keeping and modernizing native brand. ZAZ cars are now powered by a water cooled, front mounted, front drive engine and fall into micro-class. After a purchase by General Motors, the company has started assembling the models of this group.




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