The State Duma compared the new Aurus and Lada with BMW

Vice Speaker of the State Duma Vladislav Davankov highly appreciated the car of the Russian luxury brand Aurus, which he uses as an office vehicle. He said that in February 2025, all the vice-speakers of the State Duma were transferred to Aurus. KP.RU March 24th.

"Before that, I had a BMW with a mileage of more than 400 thousand km... So he was repaired more often than he drove! And then we were allocated "Auruses". Fancy cars! It is especially pleasant that they are Russian," Davankov shared.

He stressed that 10 years ago, Chinese cars were much worse than they are now, when companies from China were able to reduce prices and impose competition on Western brands due to high production volumes. The Russian car industry can follow the same path, Davankov believes.

Anatoly Aksakov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, said that in November 2024, the heads of parliamentary committees who drove BMWs received Lada Aura cars, elongated, upgraded versions of Lada Vesta. Aksakov noted that he did not notice the difference between BMW and Aura, except that the Russian car is "a little noisier."

Sergei Pakhomov, head of the State Duma Committee on Construction and Housing and Communal Services, pointed out that although the Aura is not an analogue of BMW, since these are models of different classes, however, compared with cars from China and South Korea of the same price segment, the domestic car is better.

On March 19, it was reported that the Aurus Komendant crossover was first available on the secondary market. The car produced in 2023 traveled 11.7 thousand km, it was estimated at 43 million rubles. The car for sale is completely covered with a protective polyurethane film and coated with a ceramic compound on top of it.