In 2022, Western capital and business will leave Russia on a large scale, causing cars from Chinese companies to begin to dominate the domestic car market. Naturally, as a holy place, it cannot remain empty. In addition, new Sino-Russian joint venture brands have emerged. These cars are actually Chinese cars, but legally they are domestic cars.
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The method is as follows TASS reports Referring to statistics from the Gazprom Car Rental Company and the Autostat agency, Russians spent 107 billion rubles on the purchase of these official Russian cars in August last year, an increase of 77.7% over the same period last year.
Real Chinese cars naturally rank first in terms of value: the purchase price in August was 164.6 billion rubles. The third place is “Europeans” with a total of 50.4 billion rubles, and the fourth place is “Japanese” with a total of 45.9 billion rubles. The popularity of Korean and American brand cars has declined: the cost of purchasing them has fallen by about a quarter.
This month, the sales of Russian legal brand cars accounted for 27.4% of the country’s total “Iron Horse” sales. A year ago, that number was just over 15%.
