While the May car sales results are, of course, downright scary, the decline was 83.5% compared to May 2021. While the situation is in fact slightly better, according to the Automobile Manufacturers Committee of the Association of European Businesses (AEB ) 24,268 new cars sold, but … 27,458 new cars registered with the traffic police. Where, one wonders, extra firewood? That is, it seems that Mark Twain can be corrected: in addition to lies, blatant lies and statistics, there are also statistics about the Russian car market, which are probably only more cunning than the “green” horror stories about the future of the planet as the world will not become carbon-free.

In other words, the Russian car market is more alive than dead and, most interestingly, it is slow, very slow, but recovering. First, he will clearly benefit from a powerful “medicine” in the form of a simplified LADA Granta Classic, which will go on sale in July (the price, even with dealer surcharges, should not exceed 800,000 rubles).

Behind the “Grant” simplified “Niva” should catch up, and there, you see, “Largus” with “Vesta” will catch up, plus equally “lightweight” UAZ models. And of course our Chinese friends have become noticeably more active in the wonderful new world. This one, although they tear three skins, but they offer real cars. Well, used foreign cars have already poured into the country in nearly flooding rivers.

However, if you want to know in more detail why the rumors about the imminent demise of the Russian car market are greatly exaggerated, you can learn from the next issue of the podcast of the AvtoVzglyad portal (you can listen to it here

While the May car sales results are, of course, downright scary, the decline was 83.5% compared to May 2021. While the situation is in fact slightly better, according to the Automobile Manufacturers Committee of the Association of European Businesses (AEB ) 24,268 new cars sold, but … 27,458 new cars registered with the traffic police. Where, one wonders, extra firewood? That is, it seems that Mark Twain can be corrected: in addition to lies, blatant lies and statistics, there are also statistics about the Russian car market, which are probably only more cunning than the “green” horror stories about the future of the planet as the world will not become carbon-free.

In other words, the Russian car market is more alive than dead and, most interestingly, it is slow, very slow, but recovering. First, he will clearly benefit from a powerful “medicine” in the form of a simplified LADA Granta Classic, which will go on sale in July (the price, even with dealer surcharges, should not exceed 800,000 rubles).

Behind the “Grant” simplified “Niva” should catch up, and there, you see, “Largus” with “Vesta” will catch up, plus equally “lightweight” UAZ models. And of course our Chinese friends have become noticeably more active in the wonderful new world. This one, although they tear three skins, but they offer real cars. Well, used foreign cars have already poured into the country in nearly flooding rivers.

However, if you want to know in more detail why the rumors about the imminent demise of the Russian car market are greatly exaggerated, you can learn from the next issue of the podcast of the AvtoVzglyad portal (you can listen to it here