German concern BMW became the first large automobile company to decide to start assembling cars in Russia. The Avtotor enterprise 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 buying a car assembled in Russia, how much better will a German-assembled BMW be? Opinions on forums can be found directly opposite, despite the fact that it is difficult to provide objective evidence of both points of view.

What attracts Russian buyers to truly German cars?

One of the main advantages is true German car– engine quality. The durability of the entire structure ultimately depends on the reliability of the motor, and it is German technology that this parameter ahead of many manufacturers around the world. And it is reliability that is ultimately what products lack 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 thanks to the coordinated work of complex electronic systems, working brakes, comfortable interior, in which a driver of any size will feel comfortable. In front of everyone positive qualities BMWs are focused specifically on city driving, so they are not intended for difficult road conditions. After the company began assembling cars at Kaliningrad plant, heated debates broke out among fans of this brand regarding the quality of the cars.

Features of BMWs assembled in Russia

How to distinguish BMW German assemblies from Kaliningrad? The Russian assembly is equipped with a number of design differences. Since Avtotor's products are focused primarily on Russian buyer, then a special “Russian package” was supposed to adapt it to non-standard local conditions. Main features"Russian" BMW:

• The ground clearance increased by 22 mm made it possible to achieve off-road. Taking into account the situation on Russian roads, such an addition can hardly be called unnecessary.
• Stiffer shock absorbers and reinforced stabilizers (both front and rear). This will allow the machine to remain operational longer.
• The electronics allow you to start the car even in fairly severe frost conditions.
• Many car enthusiasts 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. You can check the exact location where the car was assembled using the VIN code. This is a marking that is placed on the engine, and which must reflect the country of origin. Russian cars are marked with the letter "X". You can go shopping with someone you know who knows where to look up the VIN.

What to choose: German or Russian assembly

So far, almost entirely imported components are used to produce BMWs at the plant in Kaliningrad. That is, it is difficult to talk about discrepancies in the quality of machines, since in the end they undergo the same quality control. At the same time, many note that when driving on vehicle Russian assembly produces more noise, and the car ends up being less durable. However, these shortcomings can be attributed to both the quality of service and compliance with the rules of operation of the machine.

Cars assembled in Kaliningrad ultimately undergo triple quality control: initially the parts are checked by the manufacturing company, then they are checked when they arrive at the plant, and, ultimately, they undergo a final check after assembly. The likelihood of marriage in this case is reduced to a minimum, so “Russian” BMWs are not much inferior to German ones. 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 forums: is it possible to buy new BMW German assembly at a dealer? New German cars are still supplied to the Russian market, but their cost is very high. For example, the BMW 520i of the updated 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 markups on prices are noticeably lower.

German used car or new domestic

What is better to buy: a used car from Germany or a new domestic one? In terms of price, cars made in Russia are almost equal to models with low mileage that are transported across the border. It’s difficult to say what exactly will be best for the Russian driver:

1. Used BMWs with low mileage, with correct operation they are not much inferior to new ones. The Germans have always been a thrifty people, and used cars arrive from abroad at very good condition, becoming a bargain.
2. At the same time new car impossible to compare with anything. It's always more pleasant to be behind the wheel of a car that no one has ever owned before. The purchase of new cars may be included in the programs preferential lending aimed at supporting the manufacturer. This will help you save additional money.
3. The new car has warranty card, which will allow you to correct any factory defects, if any. Quite a few owners speak positively about the Russian assembly: the cars are of quite high quality, in no way inferior to their German counterparts, and their build quality is no worse.

Quality bias Russian cars, of course, have serious reasons. However, times are changing, and we can expect that Russian assembly will soon be at a quite decent level, gradually displacing Western representatives of the automobile industry. So far, the choice remains only with the opinion and taste of the buyer.

Material from Rosalab Wiki

If you want to build your own ISO image of Rosa, but do not have access to build images on ABF, you can build the image on your local machine.

If you need to build the root system rather than an 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 the scripts and auxiliary files necessary for assembly. The following projects are currently supported:

• LXQT: soft/build_lxqt_desktop (outdated and not suitable for the current version of the instructions)

Each repository can have multiple branches. The main branch has the name of the current platform (rosa2016.1); There may also be various additional branches for tests and experiments. First, you need to clone the repository from the desired branch into any folder, example:

Git clone https://foo: [email protected]/soft/build_plasma5_desktop_ee.git

Let's move the terminal to the directory with the downloaded scripts:

Cd build_plasma5_desktop_ee

Now you can run the build, example build with minimum set parameters specified 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 exact directory in which the MATRIX script is located. In the root of this directory, a directory "ROSA.DESKTOP.$RELEASE" will be created, which will be used to roll out the base chroot, inside of which the build will be launched using livecd-tools, which will make another chroot inside the existing chroot. In general, you need sufficient quantity 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 causes 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 consider standard what is on ABF.

The meaning of environment variables (build parameters):

• 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 collected ( possible options: 32, 32u, 64, 64u - respectively, 32- and 64-bit images with or without UEFI support); on this moment you can only collect one type at a time, example: TYPES=64u
• DE: suffix for the file with a list of packages, usually corresponding to the graphical environment (for example, for DE=kde4 the files commonkde4.lst, i586kde4.lst, x86_64kde4.lst will be used), also $DE will be included in the file name of the resulting image;
• RELEASE: Rosa's release number;
• BUILD_ID: number of the image being collected, can be set arbitrarily;
• MIRROR: mirror from which to take packages, example: MIRROR=http://mirror.rosalab.ru/rosa or MIRROR=http://mirror.yandex.ru/rosa or MIRROR=http://abf-downloads.rosalinux .ru ; if not specified, then MIRROR=http://abf-downloads.rosalinux.ru is set;
• REPO: path to the repository from where packages will be downloaded, example: http://abf-downloads.rosalinux.ru/rosa2016.1/repository/x86_64/, if the REPO variable is not specified, then it is formed like this: EPO="$( MIRROR)/$(ROSA_PLATFORM)/repository/$(ARCH)/"

The MATRIX script does the following:

• installs all updates on the host;
• using urpmi, chroots the target platform whose image is being collected;
• replaces template things like #ARCH# in the .ks.template file (a lot of things are done in .ks.template, and at the moment this is done without set -e, that is, the image build does not stop if the intermediate command in .ks.template fails, which makes debugging difficult);
• in the created chroot it launches livecd-tools , which assembles the image using .ks.template;
• mirror.rosalab.ru is added to the resulting image as the only repository (that is, first the image is assembled with the repository that you specified, and then another is added, without guaranteeing 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 of your own, you will need to edit the files:

• commonplasma5.lst, i586plasma5.lst, x86_64kplasma5.lst: lists of packages installed in the image (general list and, if necessary, architecture-dependent ones; instead of “plasma5” you need to substitute 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 test version package 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 for copying it is broken);
• .ks.template: 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.

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