Editing GAZ (section)

===SibAl takeover===
[[File:Volga Siber front Moscow autoshow 2008 26 08.jpg|thumb|[[GAZ Volga Siber]], introduced in 2008]]
In November 2000 GAZ was acquired in a hostile takeover by [[SibAl]].<ref name="underbus">{{cite book|last1=Ireland|first1=R. Duane|last2=Hoskisson|first2=Robert|last3=Hitt|first3=Michael|title=Understanding Business Strategy: Concepts and Cases|date=2005|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=032428246X|pages=143–145|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WmdsrKwYYNQC&pg=RA1-PA145|access-date=6 July 2017|language=en}}</ref> In March 2003 GAZ declared that the production of passenger cars was no longer a priority for the company, and plans to release a new GAZ-3115 model had been abandoned.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Емельянова |first1=Екатерина |last2=Идиатуллин |first2=Шамиль |last3=Трифонов |first3=Владислав |title=Время менять автомобиль |url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/381341 |access-date=8 July 2017 |work=Газета "Коммерсантъ" |date=13 May 2003 |page=20 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730071918/http://kommersant.ru/doc/381341 |archive-date=30 July 2013 }}</ref>

In 2006, GAZ made a move on the [[LDV Group|LDV]] company based in [[Birmingham]], England, and acquired the van maker from the venture capital group Sun European Partners, LLP in July of that year. GAZ said that they planned to market the MAXUS ([[LDV Group|LDV]]'s new Panel-van that was released in January 2005) into the rest of Europe and Asia. GAZ proposed to increase production in the LDV plant in England, while also commencing production of the MAXUS in a new plant in Russia. However, due to the recession, the production at the LDV plant was halted and the plant was sold to a Chinese company called ECO Concept in 2009.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/6339043/LDV-Vans-bought-by-Chinas-Qu-Li.html |title=LDV Vans bought by China's Qu Li |publisher=The Telegraph, 15 October 2009 |location=London |first=Graham |last=Ruddick |date=15 October 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100227050323/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/6339043/LDV-Vans-bought-by-Chinas-Qu-Li.html |archive-date=27 February 2010 }}</ref>

As then [[Daimler AG|DaimlerChrysler]] modernized its [[Sterling Heights Assembly]] plant in 2006, the old [[Chrysler Sebring]] / [[Dodge Stratus]] assembly line and tooling was sold to GAZ and was shipped to [[Nizhny Novgorod]] in [[Russia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.just-auto.com/news/gaz-to-buy-sebringstratus-assembly-line-from-chrysler_id87469.aspx |title=US: GAZ to buy Sebring/Stratus assembly line from Chrysler |publisher=Just-Auto, 18 April 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927153808/http://www.just-auto.com/news/gaz-to-buy-sebringstratus-assembly-line-from-chrysler_id87469.aspx |archive-date=27 September 2011 }}</ref>  Since then GAZ car facility is used for contract manufacturing for [[Volkswagen]] and [[General Motors]].