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Miracles of savings: why Russians rushed en masse to buy new “Chinese” in Kyrgyzstan

  • October 16, 2023
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Russian entrepreneurs, in collaboration with Kyrgyz partners, have started a company to supply brand new Chinese cars to our market. However, you can go to Kyrgyzstan to pick

Miracles of savings: why Russians rushed en masse to buy new “Chinese” in Kyrgyzstan
Russian entrepreneurs, in collaboration with Kyrgyz partners, have started a company to supply brand new Chinese cars to our market. However, you can go to Kyrgyzstan to pick up a car yourself. The advantage is obvious. For details – the portal “AvtoVzglyad”.

The Russian people are always and everywhere accustomed to saving and seeking personal gain, and given the incredibly rising price tags for cars, God himself has ordered the use of alternative purchase options. So car transporters from Kyrgyzstan rolled into the country with batches of brand new ‘heavenly’ cars. Let’s say more: deliveries have intensified so much that not only road trains are used for transportation, but also tow trucks and even ordinary trucks. Yes, yes, you understood everything correctly: the Kyrgyz simply do not have enough car transporters. And the influx of people who want to buy a car cheaper is growing. And here’s why.

Let’s take as an example the popular Geely Monjaro, which with a mileage of up to several hundred kilometers can be purchased in China for about 23,000 dollars. The car then arrives in Kyrgyzstan, where, taking into account logistics and customs clearance, approximately 29,000 “green” copies are released. If it is in rubles, then in the region of 2,900,000 “wooden”. Then the car must be delivered to Russia – the car transport service costs from 1000 to 1500 “dollars” for one car. In total, we get a new crossover for a retail price of just over 3,000,000 rubles.

Additional costs include flights, accommodation and food, and upon returning home, recycling costs and receiving an electronic vehicle title. And this is on average plus 300-350 thousand. However, they can deliver it to you turnkey, as they say. By prepayment and without personal participation. It is true that the price tag for the service will rise to at least 3,500,000 rubles. In any case, it is cheaper than a car on sale at Russian dealers, who start the conversation with 4,300,000 rubles and end somewhere at “five.”

In other words, the Geely Monjaro imported from Kyrgyzstan will save almost 1,000,000 domestic banknotes! As you can see, the game is worth the candle. Unless, of course, you don’t care about the lack of an original manufacturer’s warranty, but also about the difference in configurations and technical features. Of course, there will be no Russian-language software in the car, although our craftsmen have already learned to “reflash” the software for a small part of the price. But problems with the software, unfortunately, have not been canceled. On the other hand, if there is a strong desire and additional costs, the software can also be updated.

Meanwhile, as the AvtoVzglyad portal discovered, in some cases the same “officials” use similar paths as resellers. Therefore, you can communicate with dealers informally – for example, buy the same Monjaro without a company warranty, which will reduce the price tag by several hundred thousand rubles. Moreover, on the sites there will even be “shabby” versions of the model with front-wheel drive and a less efficient engine, the price of which will be much cheaper than 4,000,000 rubles. On the plus side: I came, I saw, I bought. Well, you already know the disadvantages.

True, there is one nuance. Recently, the country’s authorities revised the rules for importing cars under the parallel import scheme, in particular banning legal entities from bringing Chinese cars officially sold here into the Russian Federation. Therefore, such cars are now immediately registered at the country’s border exclusively for “physicists”.

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The Russian people are always and everywhere accustomed to saving and seeking personal gain, and given the incredibly rising price tags for cars, God himself has ordered the use of alternative purchase options. So car transporters from Kyrgyzstan rolled into the country with batches of brand new ‘heavenly’ cars. Let’s say more: deliveries have intensified so much that not only road trains are used for transportation, but also tow trucks and even ordinary trucks. Yes, yes, you understood everything correctly: the Kyrgyz simply do not have enough car transporters. And the influx of people who want to buy a car cheaper is growing. And here’s why.

Let’s take as an example the popular Geely Monjaro, which with a mileage of up to several hundred kilometers can be purchased in China for about 23,000 dollars. The car then arrives in Kyrgyzstan, where, taking into account logistics and customs clearance, approximately 29,000 “green” copies are released. If it is in rubles, then in the region of 2,900,000 “wooden”. Then the car must be delivered to Russia – the car transport service costs from 1000 to 1500 “dollars” for one car. In total, we get a new crossover for a retail price of just over 3,000,000 rubles.

Additional costs include flights, accommodation and food, and upon returning home, recycling costs and receiving an electronic vehicle title. And this is on average plus 300-350 thousand. However, they can deliver it to you turnkey, as they say. By prepayment and without personal participation. It is true that the price tag for the service will rise to at least 3,500,000 rubles. In any case, it is cheaper than a car on sale at Russian dealers, who start the conversation with 4,300,000 rubles and end somewhere at “five.”

In other words, the Geely Monjaro imported from Kyrgyzstan will save almost 1,000,000 domestic banknotes! As you can see, the game is worth the candle. Unless, of course, you don’t care about the lack of an original manufacturer’s warranty, but also about the difference in configurations and technical features. Of course, there will be no Russian-language software in the car, although our craftsmen have already learned to “reflash” the software for a small part of the price. But problems with the software, unfortunately, have not been canceled. On the other hand, if there is a strong desire and additional costs, the software can also be updated.

Meanwhile, as the AvtoVzglyad portal discovered, in some cases the same “officials” use similar paths as resellers. Therefore, you can communicate with dealers informally – for example, buy the same Monjaro without a company warranty, which will reduce the price tag by several hundred thousand rubles. Moreover, on the sites there will even be “shabby” versions of the model with front-wheel drive and a less efficient engine, the price of which will be much cheaper than 4,000,000 rubles. On the plus side: I came, I saw, I bought. Well, you already know the disadvantages.

True, there is one nuance. Recently, the country’s authorities revised the rules for importing cars under the parallel import scheme, in particular banning legal entities from bringing Chinese cars officially sold here into the Russian Federation. Therefore, such cars are now immediately registered at the country’s border exclusively for “physicists”.

Source: Avto Vzglyad

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