“How did that happen?” will ask the biting reader. – Here recently, the Avtostat agency announced that in 2022, the inhabitants of our country will have spent 4.3 trillion rubles on the purchase of cars with mileage. ruble! Judgment about the weight? What an abyss there is.” Wait, no one is saying that used car sales should be banned and salespeople should be shot at the crime scene without trial.
The bins of the Motherland – in flight
Naturally, the secondary market is very necessary for many. First, the people of Russia who have become very impoverished in recent years and cannot afford to buy a new car. Second, guys who want to look cooler than their income allows. Thirdly, car owners who want to get rid of their old vehicle before buying a new one. Fourth, for professional outbidders, who have their own rather large benefit from this. And fifthly, to the banks that provided their onerous loans on time to the customers of the “secondary”.
Everything seems quite optimistic. And who are the poor fellows left behind? And they are. Primarily, these are production workers, with the fruits of whose labor the above stakeholders make their manipulations. And, by the way, the Russian state, where huge sums of money float by, from which meager taxes fall into the dustbins of the motherland, and even then rarely.
However, it is the state itself that is to blame, for, to please liberal economists, it put the interests of financier-speculators before the needs of industrialists. And what is to be surprised if the multi-stage resale of a car once produced together does not in any way increase the economy, no matter how effective managers prove otherwise, who have produced a damn lot at all levels of management.
What lies behind the dope of statistics
However, there are also few reasons for joy for the first three categories of beneficiaries. Let’s take a closer look at the statistics. In two months of 2023, used car registrations have increased by 5.7% compared to the same period last year, according to Avtostat. This is despite the fact that new car purchases fell by 45% in the same months. However, let’s wait a little longer to uncork the champagne – let’s move on past the intoxicating poppy fields of numbers.
In total, 755.4 thousand used cars were purchased on the secondary market of Russia in January-February. Of these, 66.6 thousand were imported from abroad, the rest were in the personal use of our compatriots before sale. What did the former owners of these others get in return? Are they new cars?
In a sense, yes. But these lucky ones turned out to be quite a few – only 101.4 thousand. In other words, in January-February, 580,000 car owners either waved one drishpak to another without looking, or even switched to the no-horse category. “Let the loser cry, curse his fate!”
Such a sad picture is hidden behind the apparently favorable figures for the growth of the secondary market in Russia. With a total fleet of 45.3 million cars in the country, 1.3% of domestic drivers have become some kind of downshifter – and this is only for about two months.
“How did that happen?” will ask the biting reader. – Here recently, the Avtostat agency announced that in 2022, the inhabitants of our country will have spent 4.3 trillion rubles on the purchase of cars with mileage. ruble! Judgment about the weight? What an abyss there is.” Wait, no one is saying that used car sales should be banned and salespeople should be shot at the crime scene without trial.
The bins of the Motherland – in flight
Naturally, the secondary market is very necessary for many. First, the people of Russia who have become very impoverished in recent years and cannot afford to buy a new car. Second, guys who want to look cooler than their income allows. Thirdly, car owners who want to get rid of their old vehicle before buying a new one. Fourth, for professional outbidders, who have their own rather large benefit from this. And fifthly, to the banks that made their onerous loans on time to the customers of the “secondary”.
Everything seems quite optimistic. And who are the poor fellows left behind? And they are. Primarily, these are production workers, with the fruits of whose labor the above stakeholders make their manipulations. And, by the way, the Russian state, where huge sums of money float by, from which meager taxes fall into the dustbins of the motherland, and even then rarely.
However, it is the state itself that is to blame, for, to please liberal economists, it put the interests of financier-speculators before the needs of industrialists. And what is to be surprised if the multi-stage resale of a car once produced together does not in any way increase the economy, no matter how effective managers prove otherwise, who have produced a damn lot at all levels of management.
What lies behind the dope of statistics
However, there are also few reasons for joy for the first three categories of beneficiaries. Let’s take a closer look at the statistics. In two months of 2023, used car registrations have increased by 5.7% compared to the same period last year, according to Avtostat. This is despite the fact that new car purchases fell by 45% in the same months. However, let’s wait a little longer to uncork the champagne – let’s move on past the intoxicating poppy fields of numbers.
In total, 755.4 thousand used cars were purchased on the secondary market of Russia in January-February. Of these, 66.6 thousand were imported from abroad, the rest were in the personal use of our compatriots before sale. What did the former owners of these others get in return? Are they new cars?
In a sense, yes. But these lucky ones turned out to be quite a few – only 101.4 thousand. In other words, in January-February, 580,000 car owners either waved one drishpak to another without looking, or even switched to the horseless category. “Let the loser cry, curse his fate!”
Such a sad picture is hidden behind the apparently favorable figures for the growth of the secondary market in Russia. With a total fleet of 45.3 million cars in the country, 1.3% of domestic drivers have become some kind of downshifter – and this is only for about two months.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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