This persistent trend was not affected by any disaster. She withstood the crises of 2008 and 2013 with honor, did not succumb to the pandemic and ignored the market collapse resulting from the introduction of large-scale sanctions against our country. The question is: why would she change now? Hence the mathematically precise conclusion: in the first two months of the new year, all price tags will be rewritten upwards, some a little earlier, some a little later. But absolute and necessary.
Experts are sad
By the way, most experts do not dispute this prediction and use as justification the same set of factors that supposedly influence the price. This is irresistible inflation, clumsy government regulatory measures such as recycling collection, fluctuations in the ruble exchange rate, sanctions pressure, underdevelopment of local production, supply shortages and the machinations of the Central Bank.
All of the above can affect the price increase of cars, but are not decisive. For if deflation in Russia had begun beyond expectations, a reasonable stimulation of demand, the active development of its own factories, the exchange rate of the ruble had strengthened and stabilized, sanctions had disappeared and abundance had descended on the market, then essentially nothing would have changed. . And car prices would continue their difficult path to sky-high heights. There are many examples: both Russia in the ‘fat’ years and the West in prosperous periods.
Inveterate optimists
But no, there are still inveterate optimists among the car experts, God bless them. For example, Maxim Chirkov, associate professor of the Department of Economic Policy and Economic Measurement at the Institute of Economics and Finance of the State University of Management, shared the following considerations with AiF: