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The German concern "BMW" became the first large automobile enterprise that decided to start assembling cars in Russia. Avtotor is located in Kaliningrad and today this company supplies the largest number of BMWs entering the Russian market. At the same time, many people have doubts: is it worth taking a car assembled in Russia, how much better will a German-assembled BMW be? Opinions on the forums can be found directly opposite, moreover, it is difficult to provide objective evidence for both points of view.
What attracts a Russian buyer to truly German cars
One of the main advantages of a truly German car is the quality of the engine. As a result, the durability of the entire structure depends on the reliability of the motor, and it was German technology that was ahead of many manufacturers around the world in this parameter. And it is reliability that, ultimately, is lacking in the products of the Russian automobile industry. BMW has already become a symbol of practicality, quality and comfort all over the world.
Distinctive features of this car: excellent handling due to the well-coordinated work of complex electronic systems, efficient brakes, a comfortable interior in which a driver of any build will feel comfortable. With all the positive qualities, BMWs are focused specifically on city traffic, so they are not designed for difficult road conditions. After the company began assembling cars at the Kaliningrad plant, heated debates broke out among fans of this brand regarding the quality of cars.
Features of "BMW" assembled in Russia
How to distinguish a BMW of German assembly from Kaliningrad? The Russian assembly is equipped with a number of design differences. Since Avtotor's products are primarily aimed at the Russian buyer, a special "Russian package" was supposed to adapt them to non-standard local conditions. The main distinguishing features of the "Russian" BMW:
- The clearance increased by 22 mm made it possible to achieve increased cross-country ability. Given the situation of Russian roads, such an addition can hardly be called superfluous.
- Stiffer shock absorbers and reinforced stabilizers (both front and rear). This will allow the machine to keep working longer.
- Electronics allows you to start the car even in conditions of quite severe frosts.
- Many motorists note that the Russian assembly is less sensitive to the quality of gasoline, which is important, given the quality of fuel at most gas stations.
Thus, the traditional BMW has become more durable, designed to overcome difficulties and travel on those routes for which the car was not originally intended at all. You can check the exact place of assembly of the car using the VIN code. This is a marking that is placed on the engine, and in which the country of origin must be reflected. Russian cars are marked with the letter "X". You can go shopping with a friend who knows where to look at the VIN.
What to choose: German or Russian assembly
So far, for the production of BMWs at the plant in Kaliningrad, almost completely imported components are used. That is, it is difficult to talk about the discrepancy in the quality of cars, since in the end they pass the same quality control. At the same time, many note that when driving on a vehicle of Russian assembly, noise is heard more, and the car as a result turns out to be less durable. However, these shortcomings can be attributed both to the quality of service and to compliance with the rules for operating the machine.
Cars assembled in Kaliningrad end up undergoing triple quality control: the parts are first checked by the manufacturer, then they are checked when they arrive at the factory, and, ultimately, they pass the final check after assembly. The probability of marriage in this case is minimized, so the "Russian" BMWs are not much inferior to the German ones. The Russian assembly has been on the market for 13 years.
An important factor determining the purchase of a Russian assembly is its cost. The question is often asked on the forums, is it possible to buy a new German-assembled BMW from a dealer? New German cars are still supplied to the Russian market, but their cost is very high. For example, the updated BMW 520i series has been available from official sellers since September last year at a price of 1.825 million rubles. Cars assembled in Russia are not subject to customs duties, so there is much less markup on prices.
German used car or new domestic
What is better to buy: a used car from Germany or a new domestic one? For the price, cars made in Russia are almost equal to models with low mileage that are transported across the border. It is difficult to say what exactly will be better for a Russian driver:
- Used BMWs with low mileage, with proper operation, are not much inferior to new ones. The Germans have always been a frugal people, and used cars arrive from abroad in very good condition, making them a bargain.
- However, the new car can not be compared with anything. It is always more pleasant to be behind the wheel of a car that no one else has owned before you. The purchase of new cars may fall into preferential lending programs aimed at supporting the manufacturer. This will help you save more.
- The new machine has a warranty card that will allow you to correct any factory defects, if any. A lot of owners also speak positively about the Russian assembly: the cars are quite high-quality, they are in no way inferior to their German counterparts, and the build quality in them is no worse.
Prejudice regarding the quality of Russian cars, of course, have serious grounds. At the same time, times are changing, and we can expect that the Russian assembly will soon be at a quite decent level, gradually ousting Western representatives of the automotive industry. So far, the choice remains only for the opinion and taste of the buyer.
Volkswagen started selling the Jetta model in the "Conceptline" configuration, created specifically for the Russian market. The car is equipped with a 105-horsepower 1.6-liter gasoline engine, which can be aggregated with either a five-speed "mechanics" or a six-band "automatic". In connection with the appearance of the new version, some changes have occurred in other equipment options.
The Volkswagen Jetta Conceptline is produced at the Volkswagen Group Rus plant in Nizhny Novgorod, on a specially organized production line at the Gorky Plant. Vratislav Strashil, head of the Volkswagen brand - passenger cars in Russia: "Volkswagen Jetta is one of the most popular Volkswagen models in Russia, so we are pleased to announce the start of sales of locally assembled Jetta cars. The production of this model in Nizhny Novgorod allows us to offer Russian Jetta customers interesting equipment and attractive prices.
The Jetta in the new Conceptline trim is offered in eight body colors, including "Tornado" red and "Storm" blue. Also, in addition to the standard set of equipment for the car, several option packages are available.
The cost of the Trendline package now starts at 688,000 rubles against the previous 702,000 rubles. Other trims received new standard equipment. For the first time, as noted in the company, the Comfortline has a dual-zone climate control Climatronic in the list of basic options.
Prices for the VW Jetta Conceptline start at 648,000 rubles for the version with "mechanics", a car with an automatic transmission costs from 696,000 rubles. The equipment includes: power windows on all doors, air conditioning, front airbags, audio preparation, a driver's seat with height adjustment.
From the Rosalab Wiki
If you want to build your own Rosa ISO, but don't have access to build images on ABF, you can build the image on your local machine.
If you need to build the root system, and not the ISO image, then see the article "Rootfs image".
There are no special requirements for the system on which the assembly is run, the only thing that prevents it from running on GNU/Linux distributions other than ROSA is a direct call to urpmi to create a basic chroot.
For assembly, special projects are used, stored in Git repositories on ABF and including all scripts and auxiliary files necessary for assembly. The following projects are currently supported:
- LXQT: soft/build_lxqt_desktop (deprecated and not suitable for the current version of the instruction)
Each repository can have multiple branches. The master branch has the name of the actual platform (rosa2016.1); there may be various additional branches for tests and experiments. First you need to clone the repository from the desired branch to any folder, example:
Git clone https://foo: [email protected]/soft/build_plasma5_desktop_ee.git
Move the terminal to the directory with the downloaded scripts:
cd build_plasma5_desktop_ee
Now you can run the build, an example of a build with a minimal set of parameters set by environment variables:
sudo env TYPES="64u" DE=plasma5 RELEASE=R11 BUILD_ID=20001 ./MATRIX
Please note that when running the MATRIX script, the terminal must be in the same directory as the MATRIX script. At the root of this directory, a "ROSA.DESKTOP.$RELEASE" directory will be created, which will be used to roll out a base chroot, inside which a build will be run with livecd-tools , which will make another chroot inside the existing chroot. In general, you need a sufficient amount of free space. The resulting image will be in the results/ folder unless otherwise specified (see below).
The MATRIX script is run with set -e, which will cause it to exit on error at any intermediate operation, which makes debugging easier, but can create some problems when building in a non-standard environment. We conditionally consider the standard that is on ABF.
Meaning of environment variables (build options):
- RESULTS_DIR: directory where to save the resulting images and logs; by default, the results folder is created in the current directory;
- TYPES: list of image types that will be built (possible options: 32, 32u, 64, 64u - respectively, 32- and 64-bit images with or without UEFI support); currently only one type can be collected at a time, example: TYPES=64u
- DE: suffix for the package list file, usually corresponding to the graphical environment (for example, for DE=kde4 the files commonkde4.lst, i586kde4.lst, x86_64kde4.lst will be used), also $DE will be included in the file name of the resulting image;
- RELEASE: Rosa's release number;
- BUILD_ID: number of the built image, can be set arbitrarily;
- MIRROR: mirror from which to get packages, example: MIRROR=http://mirror.rosalab.ru/rosa or MIRROR=http://mirror.yandex.ru/rosa or MIRROR=http://abf-downloads.rosalinux .ru; if not set, then MIRROR=http://abf-downloads.rosalinux.ru is set;
- REPO: path to the repository where the packages will be downloaded from, example: http://abf-downloads.rosalinux.ru/rosa2016.1/repository/x86_64/ , if the REPO variable is not set, then it is formed like this: EPO="$( MIRROR)/$(ROSA_PLATFORM)/repository/$(ARCH)/"
The MATRIX script does the following:
- installs all updates on the host;
- using urpmi, makes a chroot with the target platform, the image of which is being built;
- replaces template things like #ARCH# in the .ks.template file (a lot of things are done in ks.template, and at the moment it is done without set -e, that is, image building does not stop when an intermediate command in ks.template fails, which makes it difficult to debug);
- in the created chroot runs livecd-tools , which builds the image from .ks.template;
- mirror.rosalab.ru is added to the resulting image as the only repository (that is, first an image is built with the repository that you specified, and then another is added, without guarantee that the contents of these repositories are the same);
- copies the resulting image and logs to $RESULTS_DIR (results/).
If you need to make any changes, you will need to edit the files:
- commonplasma5.lst, i586plasma5.lst, x86_64kplasma5.lst: lists of packages to be installed into the image (general list and, if necessary, architecture-specific ones; replace "plasma5" with the value of the DE variable);
- i586repo.lst, x86_64repo.lst: additional repositories or containers (for example, if you need to build an image with a test package version that is not in the main repository) (these containers are used when building the image, but are NOT added as repositories to the resulting image!);
- extraconfig directory: can be used to directly insert or replace files in the image file system (it seems that the functionality of copying it is broken);
- .ks.template: The template of the Kickstart file used for the build; includes, among other things, post-scripts that perform the final configuration and fine-tuning of the system installed in the image.
