Gazelles and Sables began to be equipped with airbags.

Cars "Sobol NN", "Gazelle NN" and NEXT received airbags. This was announced on July 4 in a press release from the distributor company Modern Transport Technologies (CTT).

NN family models ("Sable" and "Gazelle") are equipped with driver's and passenger airbags already in the basic configuration. For the Gazelle Next, the driver's airbag is available in the database, and the passenger airbag is available as an option.

The innovation has already affected cars with an on-board platform, all-metal vans and combos, as well as some modifications of buses with diesel engines. In the future, pillows will be introduced in other versions.

The new option, in addition to increasing the safety of cars, expands the possibilities of using them in corporate parks and municipal procurement, where safety requirements are becoming stricter, according to STT.

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Earlier, the Ministry of Industry and Trade reported that 607,478 new cars were sold in the Russian Federation in six months, which is 28% less than last year. During the same period, the market for new cars of domestic production exceeded 333 thousand units, which is 11% less than in January – June 2024. The share of Russian equipment in January – June 2025 increased by 11 percentage points compared to the same period last year.,

The market volume in the passenger car segment amounted to 526,698 units (-26% compared to the same period last year), Sales of light commercial vehicles (LCVs) amounted to 48,823 units (-19%), sales of trucks — 27,032 units (-54% compared to), sales of buses — 4,925 units (-54%).