The problems in the market for both new and used cars did not start in February 2022. The so-called semiconductor crisis started during a pandemic and has not yet ended – many companies are still short of components and logistics, which have monstrously increased in price, cannot recover from covid-19. The redistribution of the world, which is currently shaking the very foundations of the entire planet, has only added fuel to the fire. Well, Russia, according to the good old tradition, was not only one of the first to stand on the barricades, but wearing the leader’s yellow jersey, taking on all the hurdles of the pioneer of the new structure of world trade.
The massive arrival of the Chinese has not improved the situation in the new car market, the supply is still unable to meet the demand, as well as the products of domestic brands in combination with parallel imports. The price explosion, which, of course, also hit the “secondary market”: sellers raised prices, rolled out all the garbage from the garages, which had been waiting in the wings for years, and rushed to bring to life what they had planned yesterday for ferrous metal. There are few worthy cars, and to look for a vehicle, and not an adult designer, is, we repeat, with one and a half million rubles in your pocket.
After carefully reviewing what he saw, the government apparently decided to open the “valve” that was holding back earlier – Chinese used cars. Before the pandemic, the Celestial Empire consumed about 30,000,000 new cars a year, and the “second hand” piled up without finding the right number of buyers. The state, which produces a lot, took all possible measures so that the consumer would buy new, not used.