GM Uzbekistan is a joint venture between the Uzbek

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

 OJSC UzAvtosanoat

UzAvtosanoat

The OJSC UzAvtosanoat is a company which was founded by President Islam Abdugʻaniyevich Karimov in November 1992. The company is responsible for the regulation of imports and exports of motor vehicles to and from the Uzbek market. The company is controlling and monitoring the automotive market of...

 and the US America

United States

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n General Motors Company

General Motors

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 for the manufacturing of automobiles. Following the partial association with Daewoo Motor

GM Daewoo

GM Korea Company is South Korea's second largest automobile manufacturer and is a division of the General Motors Company. GM Korea's roots go back to the former Daewoo which was split from its parent company, Daewoo Group, in 2001...

, Chevrolet

Chevrolet

Chevrolet , also known as Chevy , is a brand of vehicle produced by General Motors Company . Founded by Louis Chevrolet and ousted GM founder William C. Durant on November 3, 1911, General Motors acquired Chevrolet in 1918...

 got information about this Uzbek car manufacturer. After several years of negotiations Chevrolet and GM Daewoo had finally completed them successfully in 2007. As a result of the successfully negotiations the GM Uzbekistan was founded. GM Daewoo is located in Asaka

Asaka, Uzbekistan

Asaka is a city in Andijan Province, Uzbekistan, to the east of Andijan in the Ferghana Valley. It was formerly known as Leninsk during the communist era. The first automobile assembly plant in Central Asia was opened there by an Uzbekistani-South Korean joint venture, UzDaewoo.-See also:* List of...

 and divides the assembly plant with the separate company Uz-DaewooAvto

UzDaewooAuto

Uz-DaewooAvto is a 1992 founded joint venture between the Uzbek state owned UzAvtosanoat and the South Korean GM Daewoo. The company produces vehicles under the brand name Uz-Daewoo and is increasingly important in the markets of the CIS area. The company's assembly plant is located in Asaka. The...

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GM Uzbekistan began production on 27 November 2008. The first assembled car on this day was an Chevrolet Lacetti which also was the 1,000,000 assembled vehicle out of the production from UzAvtosanoat. The annual production of GM Uzbekistan are 250,000 units. Since the beginning of the third quarter Chevrolet is manufacturing the Chevrolet Spark M300 in Asaka. The M300 is currently intended only for export. Currently, the models are assembled CKD and SKD kits. But GM Uzbekistan plans to manufacture up to 50 % of all needed parts and want to realize it soon as possible. Any companies are currently founded like an own engine production called GM Powertrain Uzbekistan and plants for the production of door panels, car seat

Car seat

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s and dashboard

Dashboard

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s. Another plant is producing 200,000 units of front- rear- and side windows for the vehicles of the Uz-DaewooAvto and the Chevrolet Lacetti. Currently, about 5,000 employees working at the GM Uzbekistan assembly plant.

The resolution said that GM Uzbekistan will annual produce 1,008 units of Epica, 696 units of Captiva and 888 units of Tacuma.

Model overview

• Chevrolet Captiva (since 2008)
• Chevrolet Epica
  Daewoo Tosca
  The Daewoo Tosca is a mid-size car built by GM Daewoo in South Korea and marketed worldwide by General Motors as the Chevrolet Epica, Chevrolet Tosca and Holden Epica. Codenamed V250, it replaces the Daewoo Magnus and its derivatives. The Chevrolet Epica was officially launched in Europe at the...
  
   (since 2008)
• Chevrolet Lacetti (since 2008)
• Chevrolet Nexia (2008 to 2010)
• Chevrolet Spark M300 (since 2010, only Export)
• Chevrolet Tacuma
  Daewoo Tacuma
  The Daewoo Tacuma or Rezzo is a Compact MPV produced by South Korean GM Daewoo since 2000. Developed under the U100 code name, it was designed by Pininfarina and is based on the original Daewoo Nubira J100, a compact car....
  
  (since 2008)

External links

• Official website of GM Uzbekistan (Chevrolet)