Will simplified models save the Russian car market?
- July 8, 2022
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Anti-Russian sanctions have paralyzed domestic car factories: companies are in dire need of parts supplied from abroad. Until now, import replacement has not been able to solve this
Anti-Russian sanctions have paralyzed domestic car factories: companies are in dire need of parts supplied from abroad. Until now, import replacement has not been able to solve this problem, which is why manufacturers have gone the other way – they began to produce simplified models without some systems. But are ‘anti-crisis’ cars able to save the market and meet consumer demand? This question was answered by the experts of the AvtoVzglyad portal.
– There will be somewhere around 1 million unsatisfied demand. What comes on the market now, of course, resembles cars, but they are more like self-driving strollers. The same “plucked” LADA are the destroyers of the Russian people in the truest sense of the word. When the security systems are removed from the car … That is, what we have been doing for 30 years, we somehow ran back very quickly. Therefore, I do not think that these cars will be necessary,” said motoring journalist Alexander Pikulenko, speaking at an online conference of the AvtoVzglyad portal.
If you look at the sales results of the same simplified LADA Granta, you can see that they are still buying it. So, for example, in the first ten days from when the new version hit the market, it found 266 buyers. Therefore, we can assume that the demand for “anti-crisis” cars will still be there. Another question is that “cut down” cars are unlikely to proliferate in impressive numbers, meaning there’s no way they can save the market.
It is important to take into account that the annual loss of cars in Russia is about 1-1.5 million units (traffic accidents, natural aging). And if in the “best of times” 2.5 million cars sold per year are considered a good result, then under the terms of sanctions, even 1.7 million are a vacation. But only simplified models can not achieve such an indicator. In addition, the factories have been standing still for a long time – there was a restrained demand.
In general, nothing good can be expected this year. What about the following? Probably too. After all, even if AVTOVAZ can produce 500,000 cars by 2023 (the head of the company Maxim Sokolov said earlier that this is quite realistic), UAZ – 40,000 units, Haval – 80,000 and JAC at the suggestion of the mayor of the capital Sergei Sobyanin – 300,000 cars, but it still won’t be enough. We repeat it again, the market will have to deal with pent-up demand.
And more about this and much more – in the inclusion of the online conference of the AvtoVzglyad portal – here.
– There will be somewhere around 1 million unsatisfied demand. What comes on the market now, of course, resembles cars, but they are more like self-driving strollers. The same “plucked” LADA are the destroyers of the Russian people in the truest sense of the word. When the security systems are removed from the car … That is, what we have been doing for 30 years, we somehow ran back very quickly. Therefore, I do not think that these cars will be necessary,” said motoring journalist Alexander Pikulenko, speaking at an online conference of the AvtoVzglyad portal.
If you look at the sales results of the same simplified LADA Granta, you can see that they are still buying it. So, for example, in the first ten days from when the new version hit the market, it found 266 buyers. Therefore, we can assume that the demand for “anti-crisis” cars will still be there. Another question is that “cut down” cars are unlikely to proliferate in impressive numbers, meaning there’s no way they can save the market.
It is important to take into account that the annual loss of cars in Russia is about 1-1.5 million units (traffic accidents, natural aging). And if in the “best of times” 2.5 million cars sold per year are considered a good result, then under the terms of sanctions, even 1.7 million are a vacation. But only simplified models can not achieve such an indicator. In addition, the factories have been standing still for a long time – there was a restrained demand.
In general, nothing good can be expected this year. What about the following? Probably too. After all, even if AVTOVAZ can produce 500,000 cars by 2023 (the head of the company Maxim Sokolov said earlier that this is quite realistic), UAZ – 40,000 units, Haval – 80,000 and JAC at the suggestion of the mayor of the capital Sergei Sobyanin – 300,000 cars, but it still won’t be enough. We repeat it again, the market will have to deal with pent-up demand.
And more about this and much more – in the inclusion of the online conference of the AvtoVzglyad portal – here.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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