On 23 June, the next 11th consecutive package of EU sanctions against the Russian Federation and its citizens was launched. The document also found a place for “terrible cars” against our car market. In Europe, apparently, they “wrapped their brains” for a long time before coming up with the idea to completely ban the export to our country of their new and used cars with engines over 1.9 liters.
And now the Russians are suffering greatly because they were without European electric vehicles and “hybrids”. Are they there, are they seriously sure that from now on we will suffocate en masse from exhaust fumes?
Recall that more than a year ago, Europeans already banned sending their cars worth more than 50,000 euros to Russia. Which in no way prevents wealthy citizens, with the help of numerous intermediaries, from ordering and receiving absolutely any “premium” car from Europe.
Fans of the “Eurocar industry” with a simpler level of wealth, and before the introduction of new EU sanctions, mainly transported low-power cars from the Old World – with engines of modest size. But they were and are encouraged to do so, not by some directives from European officials, but by the native Russian customs law with its draconian import duties and taxes.