LuAZ

In 2022 the brand was revived in Kyiv as Luaz Motors to produce Chinese lightweight compact electric pickups which were launched in 2023.

On September 3, 1959, the factory was renamed to LuMZ (Lutskyi Mashynobudivnyi Zavod, Lutsk Machine Building Plant).

[1] After the reconstruction the plants begins to produce mobile repair shop and refrigerated truck bodies on Moskvitch, ZIL, and UAZ frames.

[2] The first civilian products suffered a reputation for poor quality, however, "for a time the LuAZ was the only car that could be bought off the shelf by Soviet motorists".

[4] It originated after the Korean War, when the Soviets saw a need for small off-road vehicles comparable to the American Willys MB, to supplement the overly-large and -heavy GAZ-69s then in service.

On 27 July 1998 the factory was excluded from the list of strategically important companies and controlling stake of LuAZ is being put up on sale.

In 2002, LuAZ stops the production of its older models to replace them with LuAZ-1301 which development began back in late 1980's, the new compact SUV concept gets launched at SIA-2002 motor show in Kyiv.

In 2022, Vadim Ignatov, owner of LuAZ, planned to revive the brand with a new logo and switching to electric automobiles, mainly focusing on economy class with entry level prices and compact design.