The third model of the new Senat car brand will be a crossover

The third model of the new Russian premium Senat car brand will belong to the SUV segment, which includes crossovers and SUVs. This was announced on June 5 by Andrey Pankov, CEO of Senat, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

"The third stage will already be fully developed for the needs of the Russian market, the car will be an SUV based on this platform," TASS quoted Pankov as saying.

The presentation of the new Senat brand took place at the SPIEF the day before. Within the framework of the forum, the start of car production was given at the former Toyota automobile plant in St. Petersburg Shushary.

The Senat 900 is the first car of the new brand, it is based on the Chinese Hongqi H9 model and is not related to the products of the Russian Aurus. The length of the car is 5.14 m. The car is equipped with a three-liter V6 engine with a mechanical supercharger, which is combined with an 8-speed hydromechanical automatic transmission and an all-wheel drive transmission. The engine power is 326 hp (340 Nm), acceleration from zero to "hundred" takes 6.5 seconds.

In the basic version, the Senate 900 will be a five-seater, its price will be 12 million rubles. The four-person VIP version will cost 12.5 million rubles. A prototype of an even longer Senat 1000 model was also presented at the forum.

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