Without wheels: which cars should officials switch to?
- October 6, 2022
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With an acute shortage and high cost of new foreign cars, the stocks of which are also dwindling before our eyes, absolutely all state structures faced the problem
With an acute shortage and high cost of new foreign cars, the stocks of which are also dwindling before our eyes, absolutely all state structures faced the problem of modernizing their fleet of vehicles. First of all, it hit the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Health, although sooner or later officials of all levels and ranks will be forced to solve it. How did the portal “AvtoVglyad” find out.
The change in economic poles and sanction pressure had a strong impact on official vehicles. The fleets of the units of the Ministry of the Interior, which in the past liked to use Skoda Octavia and Hyundai Solaris, suddenly began to thin out. In addition, problems were discovered with the delivery of not only “Koreans” and “Czechs”, but also the domestic UAZ Patriot and LADA Granta.
The situation is so dire that they are already talking on the sidelines of the power bloc about extreme measures such as the mobilization of civilian vehicles. For example, by seizing cars from malicious traffic violators. And what? The political climate is conducive to this. Admittedly, there will be a problem with identifiers, which, by the way, have also been having problems since February. While there is, of course, still hope for parallel imports, it is unlikely to cover all of the department’s needs.
But the fleets of the Ambulance substations turned out to be better prepared for sanctions, turbulence and even “kicks in the stomach” from national manufacturers. Since 2019, the state has been ordering special vehicles from the Russian GAZ and UAZ. And in 2021, the Nizhny Novgorod company Shvabe-SpetsAvto began to work for the needs of doctors, equipping a number of AVTOVAZ and GAZ models with the necessary equipment – all exclusively from household components.
Of course, the comfortable Ford Transit, FIAT Ducato, Peugeot Boxer – by the way still showing off at the international Healthcare exhibition in Expocentre in January 2022 – had to be abandoned forever at the start of the second quarter. Although the “French” and “Americans” are much more convenient to equip with special medical equipment and are more reliable to use.
It is quite possible that Niva Travel, LADA Largus, Gazelles, Sobols and even UAZ Profi will expand the NSR’s fleet in the near future – unless, of course, the production capacities of car factories fail. from law enforcement there is hope for parallel imports. The same “Transits”, “Ducato” and “Boxers” can partially return. But these are most likely stories about the supply of specific ambulance stations.
The rotation of bureaucratic transport deserves special attention. In June, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov pledged to transfer officials to LADA to rescue a key player in the sector. And although by the summer of 2022 it was already clear to everyone that foreign cars – whether in the official use of a civil servant or in a personal household – were gradually leaving the Russian market, officials were in no hurry to part with foreign ones. comfort. And some, like the head of the Just Russia party, Sergei Mironov, even doubted the need to switch to domestic wheels.
But maybe the Treasury Secretary got excited. First, the Russian auto industry (and then, and especially now) is simply not ready for such challenges. The total number of civil servants is about 1.5 million people. A third of them are motorized. And the annual production of AVTOVAZ is 350,000 vehicles (although Togliatti promises to increase production to 500,000).
Second, Siluanov may have been misunderstood. “Lada” is figurative, it must be transplanted into cars of Russian assembly. Then the Kaliningrad BMW, the Kaluga Volkswagen and the St. Petersburg Toyota satisfactorily complied, until recently, with the import substitution initiatives of the head of the Ministry of Finance. Now, however, and about them it is possible to forget.
However, they say in the industry that after the total curtailment of localized enterprises and the slowing down of AVTOVAZ’s production lines, only “subsidies” remain for officials at the grassroots level. And perhaps without the infamous ABS, ESP and EUR. And in all respects, “great” officials will keep their warm seats in the “Aurussen”.
But this is where the real drama unfolds. The middle bureaucratic link, which most accepts the concept of import substitution, is suddenly without transport. After all, on the one hand, whatever lovers of all “ours” say, after the “genesis” no LADA Vesta will suit you (even if the release resumes safely). On the other hand, it is bad manners to deny import substitution now. Although the Chinese can help here, because our current employees and partners have quite interesting cars for bureaucrats.
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The change in economic poles and sanction pressure had a strong impact on official vehicles. The fleets of the units of the Ministry of the Interior, which in the past liked to use Skoda Octavia and Hyundai Solaris, suddenly began to thin out. In addition, problems were discovered with the delivery of not only “Koreans” and “Czechs”, but also the domestic UAZ Patriot and LADA Granta.
The situation is so dire that they are already talking on the sidelines of the power bloc about extreme measures such as the mobilization of civilian vehicles. For example, by seizing cars from malicious traffic violators. And what? The political climate is conducive to this. Admittedly, there will be a problem with identifiers, which, by the way, have also been having problems since February. While there is, of course, still hope for parallel imports, it is unlikely to cover all of the department’s needs.
But the fleets of the Ambulance substations turned out to be better prepared for sanctions, turbulence and even “kicks in the stomach” from national manufacturers. Since 2019, the state has been ordering special vehicles from the Russian GAZ and UAZ. And in 2021, the Nizhny Novgorod company Shvabe-SpetsAvto began to work for the needs of doctors, equipping a number of AVTOVAZ and GAZ models with the necessary equipment – all exclusively from household components.
Of course, the comfortable Ford Transit, FIAT Ducato, Peugeot Boxer – by the way still showing off at the international Healthcare exhibition in Expocentre in January 2022 – had to be abandoned forever at the start of the second quarter. Although the “French” and “Americans” are much more convenient to equip with special medical equipment and are more reliable to use.
It is quite possible that Niva Travel, LADA Largus, Gazelles, Sobols and even UAZ Profi will expand the NSR’s fleet in the near future – unless, of course, the production capacities of car factories fail. from law enforcement there is hope for parallel imports. The same “Transits”, “Ducato” and “Boxers” can partially return. But these are most likely stories about the supply of specific ambulance stations.
The rotation of bureaucratic transport deserves special attention. In June, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov pledged to transfer officials to LADA to rescue a key player in the sector. And although by the summer of 2022 it was already clear to everyone that foreign cars – whether in the official use of a civil servant or in a personal household – were gradually leaving the Russian market, officials were in no hurry to part with foreign ones. comfort. And some, like the head of the Just Russia party, Sergei Mironov, even doubted the need to switch to domestic wheels.
But maybe the Treasury Secretary got excited. First, the Russian auto industry (and then, and especially now) is simply not ready for such challenges. The total number of civil servants is about 1.5 million people. A third of them are motorized. And the annual production of AVTOVAZ is 350,000 vehicles (although Togliatti promises to increase production to 500,000).
Second, Siluanov may have been misunderstood. “Lada” is figurative, it must be transplanted into cars of Russian assembly. Then the Kaliningrad BMW, the Kaluga Volkswagen and the St. Petersburg Toyota satisfactorily complied, until recently, with the import substitution initiatives of the head of the Ministry of Finance. Now, however, and about them it is possible to forget.
However, they say in the industry that after the total curtailment of localized enterprises and the slowing down of AVTOVAZ’s production lines, only “subsidies” remain for officials at the grassroots level. And perhaps without the infamous ABS, ESP and EUR. And in all respects, “great” officials will keep their warm seats in the “Aurussen”.
But this is where the real drama unfolds. The middle bureaucratic link, which most accepts the concept of import substitution, is suddenly without transport. After all, on the one hand, whatever lovers of all “ours” say, after the “genesis” no LADA Vesta will suit you (even if the release resumes safely). On the other hand, it is bad manners to deny import substitution now. Although the Chinese can help here, because our current employees and partners have quite interesting cars for bureaucrats.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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