So, motoring journalist Alexander Pikulenko, speaking at the online conference of the AvtoVzglyad portal, believes that car factories will engage in badging engineering (that is, replacing one brand with another) and assembling “classic” Russian cars: LADA Niva SUVs, UAZs, “Gazelle”.
Overall, the country has a production capacity of 3.5 million units per year. And if we succeed in attracting foreign companies (as JAC was attracted to the Moskvich plant), we will get a lot of cars.
– Think about it, the emblem – God bless him, what an emblem, if only they went, – Mr. Pikulenko rightly remarked.
As for the car market, it will be saved from death by parallel imports, bringing “expensive toys” into the country, as well as used “right-hand drive cars” from Japan. “I was recently in Vladivostok, I saw what happened there in the bonded warehouse,” commented our expert.
Pablo Iturralde, director of the Moscow Poly’s Advanced Engineering School, shares the same view. According to him, many new cars will indeed appear in Russia, delivered from abroad under the parallel import scheme. Another thing is that they are probably too expensive.
The expert recalled the experience of China and Korea. These countries once introduced huge customs duties on imported cars to support their auto industry. It remains to be hoped that Russia will not follow the same path. After all, if imported cars increase in price by 30%, they will not stop buying them en masse. And if by 300%, then the desire to buy a foreign car from Russians will disappear from all Russians without exception.
In general, the future of the industry largely depends on the government of the Russian Federation – and this is not just about customs duties. It is extremely important that the government, among other things, supports the domestic car factories and pays due attention to education, that is, the education of the next generation of engineers. And of course we have thought about boosting the production of auto parts.
Take microelectronics as an example. The problems with it started during the pandemic and it could be solved quickly. We would have long ago abandoned the imported chips and moved to our own, albeit not so compact, but no one has made the money for this.
And in more detail about this and much more – in the inclusion of the online conference of the AvtoVzglyad portal, dedicated to the topic of making a purely Russian car from scratch in 3-4 years: you can watch it here.
So, motoring journalist Alexander Pikulenko, speaking at the online conference of the AvtoVzglyad portal, believes that car factories will engage in badging engineering (that is, replacing one brand with another) and assembling “classic” Russian cars: LADA Niva SUVs, UAZs, “Gazelle”.
Overall, the country has a production capacity of 3.5 million units per year. And if we succeed in attracting foreign companies (as JAC was attracted to the Moskvich plant), we will get a lot of cars.
– Think about it, the emblem – God bless him, what an emblem, if only they went, – Mr. Pikulenko rightly remarked.
As for the car market, it will be saved from death by parallel imports, bringing “expensive toys” into the country, as well as used “right-hand drive cars” from Japan. “I was recently in Vladivostok, I saw what happened there in the bonded warehouse,” commented our expert.
Pablo Iturralde, director of the Moscow Poly’s Advanced Engineering School, shares the same view. According to him, many new cars will indeed appear in Russia, delivered from abroad under the parallel import scheme. Another thing is that they are probably too expensive.
The expert recalled the experience of China and Korea. These countries once introduced huge customs duties on imported cars to support their auto industry. It remains to be hoped that Russia will not follow the same path. After all, if imported cars increase in price by 30%, they will not stop buying them en masse. And if by 300%, then the desire to buy a foreign car from Russians will disappear from all Russians without exception.
In general, the future of the industry largely depends on the government of the Russian Federation – and this is not just about customs duties. It is extremely important that the government, among other things, supports the domestic car factories and pays due attention to education, that is, the education of the next generation of engineers. And of course we have thought about boosting the production of auto parts.
Take microelectronics as an example. The problems with it started during the pandemic and it could be solved quickly. We would have long ago abandoned the imported chips and moved to our own, albeit not so compact, but no one has made the money for this.
And in more detail about this and much more – in the inclusion of the online conference of the AvtoVzglyad portal, dedicated to the topic of making a purely Russian car from scratch in 3-4 years: you can watch it here.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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