KAMAZ called the “Chinese” the main reason for the crisis on the car market in Russia

Anton Saraykin, deputy general director of the auto giant for sales and service, in an interview with the publication of Ridus criticized truck distributors from the PRC. In response to the question of the main reason for the crisis in the Russian car market, the KamAZ top manager made it clear: the basis of problems is the inability or unwillingness of the importers of Chinese cars to correctly evaluate the market situation.

Anton Saraykin agreed with his colleague Mikhail Matasov that in 2025 the factors negatively negative for the car market gathered, both geopolitical and related to credit and money policy. However, the main cause of the crisis on KAMAZ is considered to be reassessing the distributors of the market capacity and incorrect forecasts.

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The representative of the auto giant repeated the thesis that the records of 2023 and 2024 could not become the norm, and after the surge, correction was supposed to happen. However, businessmen who sell Chinese trucks for some reason thought that the Russian market would always consume over 100 thousand trucks. Products were imported “to the last”, as a result, 50 thousand Chinese vehicles on the drains. Now reserves are pressed on the market and interfere with the Russian automobile industry.

However, Anton Saraykin admitted that in 2022 Kamaz had to focus on the K3 line, and the technological chains collapsed, so the Russian plant could not fully satisfy the request of customers [на машины семейства К5]. At that moment, Chinese truck manufacturers helped the Russian economy grow at a very good pace. But now the excess of trucks, coupled with expensive loans, leads to the bankruptcy of transport companies.

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