For more than four months, the Russian car market has been in a state of real stress after the events of February. And everyone remembers how all kinds of car market analysts talked about how the Chinese car industry was about to overwhelm Russia with its products, solve the problem of vehicle shortage and replace the outgoing and “suspended” brands in our country. Practice shows that the influx of cars from China has not only not taken place, but is also not expected in the foreseeable future. Chinese suppliers have also increased the Russian prices for their cars in the same way as the “Europeans”.

And they are in no hurry to lower them, even against the background of the fact that the exchange rate of the ruble against the dollar is now much higher than in January 2022, even on international trading and financial platforms, and not only at local auctions of the Moscow Stock Exchange. And of course there were no shocks with logistics along the China-Russia line. That is, our Chinese “brothers for a century” are tritely trying to reduce the superprofits in the Russian market, taking advantage of the current economic situation here and driving up prices. Meanwhile, as practice shows, the purchasing power of the Russian motorist clearly does not keep up with the appetite of car dealers. It roughly corresponds to the economic reality of late last year and early this year. Then the price of a well-equipped average “Chinese” was considered sufficient at about 2 million rubles.

For more than four months, the Russian car market has been in a state of real stress after the events of February. And everyone remembers how all kinds of car market analysts talked about how the Chinese car industry was about to overwhelm Russia with its products, solve the problem of vehicle shortage and replace the outgoing and “suspended” brands in our country. Practice shows that the influx of cars from China has not only not taken place, but is also not expected in the foreseeable future. Chinese suppliers have also increased the Russian prices for their cars in the same way as the “Europeans”.

And they are in no hurry to lower them, even against the background of the fact that the exchange rate of the ruble against the dollar is now much higher than in January 2022, even on international trading and financial platforms, and not only at local auctions of the Moscow Stock Exchange. And of course there were no shocks with logistics along the China-Russia line. That is, our Chinese “brothers for a century” are tritely trying to reduce the superprofits in the Russian market, taking advantage of the current economic situation here and driving up prices. Meanwhile, as practice shows, the purchasing power of the Russian motorist clearly does not keep up with the appetite of car dealers. It roughly corresponds to the economic reality of late last year and early this year. Then the price of a well-equipped average “Chinese” was considered sufficient at about 2 million rubles.