The Chinese Lixiang car brand will appear in Russia officially

The Chinese automobile brand Lixiang (Li Auto) will be officially introduced to the Russian market by the Sinomach Auto concern, Izvestia found out. Hyperion Leasing (Tianjin), a subsidiary of Sinomach Auto, has started searching for employees to manage the brand in Russia.

Hyperion Leasing (Tianjin) has opened three vacancies in Moscow at the service hh.ru . The company is looking for a lawyer for the Lixiang (Li Auto) brand, a PR manager and a warranty manager for the same brand. Thus, the company intends to offer warranty and post-warranty service for brand cars sold officially in the Russian Federation.

Sinomach Auto entered the Russian market in 2023 and is the general distributor and importer of two brands in Russia: Oting (supplied from the Zhengzhou Nissan factory) and Rox (from the Beijing Automobile Works, BAW factory). Currently, the dealer network of Oting and Rox in Russia includes more than 40 enterprises.

Earlier this year, Sinomach Auto announced plans to introduce in Russia the third brand after Oting and Rox, which will be represented by "Chinese intelligent vehicles powered by new energy sources." According to Izvestia, it will be Lixiang (Li Auto). The concern also announced the start of global export and trade cooperation with Xiaomi Auto, whose cars are also planned to be introduced to the Russian market.

From 2022 to 2025, the total sales of Lixiang cars in Russia amounted to 29.6 thousand vehicles, Sergey Tselikov, CEO of the Autostat analytical agency, previously reported in his Telegram channel. 46.5% of imports accounted for the L7 model, and another 40.4% for the L9.

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On February 27, Sinomach Auto announced prices for the new Oting Palasso hardtop pickup truck, which will be the first with a factory hardtop in its segment in the Russian market. In a modification with a manual transmission, the car will cost from 4 million rubles, and with an automatic transmission — from 4.34 million rubles.

On February 18, Sinomach Auto announced the Russian launch of sales of premium Rox 01 SUVs, the car is presented in two trim levels, the price starts from 9.17 million rubles.