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However problems began mounting in production costs, as some details had to be borrowed from the older models, at least initially such as the Chaika's axle.

The pre-production models lacked the automatic gearbox, and the engine was the same ZMZ-4062. 10 that went into GAZ-3110.

First shown in 1998, production was scheduled to begin in 2000 with 53 cars delivered.

GAZ thought of the-3111 as a replacement for the-3102 and envisioned a rate of 25 thousand per annum.

But only 342 were delivered in 2001, and 20 in 2002, with further nine of 2004 before all production ceased.