Last Ukrainian Slavuta car sold at auction for almost Hr 50,000, says newspaper

According to the newspaper, the online auction, where the last car could be bought, was held for a week. The initial price was set at UAH 36,000 – the price of the car at dealer centers. The number of bidders exceeded 650. A Bohuslav resident won the auction.

The newspaper said that the auction organizers said that the cars would not be sold anymore, while one of Kyiv car centers said that later Slavutas would appear in car centers.

The newspaper correspondents found offers to sell Slavutas on some Web sites. It was expected than the last car would be made on September 19, 2010, while in fact the last car was made in late January 2011: the plant produced an additional consignment worth UAH 50 million under a state order, the newspaper said.

As reported, AutoZAZ-service distributing company, part of the UkrAUTO Corporation, held the online auction.

Mass production of the ZAZ-1103 Slavuta started in March 1999 at CJSC ZAZ.

Over 12 years the plant produced over 140,000 Slavuta cars, of which 130,000 were sold on the Ukrainian market.