November and December last year were noted by the collapse of new cars by almost 30 percent. The reasons are the increase in utilsbor bets, a high center of the Central Bank, which affects the availability of loans, and the ruble exchange rate. Due to the weakening of demand, however, prices will not fall, experts say and predict new rise in price in the spring.
To date, about 400 thousand unexpressed cars have accumulated in the warehouses of Russian dealers. This was written by Kommersant with reference to the President of the Russian Auto -Dealers Association Alexei Podchekoldin. The forecast of sales of Chinese foreign cars is about one million.
According to Podchekoldin, companies from the PRC have already begun to adjust the export plans of cars to Russia aside reducing, adjusting to a drop in demand. The proposal will be reduced, which will lead to a new round of rise in price, but with a delay: we can expect increasing prices by 10-12 percent in April-May.
Cars are listed, most of all the cheaper in Russia in January, it is calculated how Chinese cars are cheaper in several years of ownership listed the most popular Chinese cars on the “secondary”
In the meantime, due to overstocking of warehouses, dealers are forced to sell cars with discounts. This was somewhat revived January – traditionally a “dead” month in the car market.
Over the year, Chinese cars in Russia have become more expensive by an average of several hundred thousand rubles. The most popular foreign car – the Haval Jolion crossover – increased in price by 150 thousand, Geely Coolray – by 190 thousand, but several models, on the contrary, became more accessible.
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