Russians are increasingly ordering cars abroad

In March 2025, the demand for the distillation of foreign cars increased by 22 percent, Izvestia write with reference to Avito data. Services of drivers-converters began to order a third more often. Experts explain the trend by strengthening the ruble and the expectation of a new increase in the Utilsbor rate. They play a role and more than in the domestic market, as well as the opportunity to buy cars of gone brands.

Most often, cars of Toyota, BMW and Mercedes-Benz are being brought abroad from abroad, analysts report. Moreover, often they are distilled to Russia from China, where many companies have Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Volkswagen, BMW and others-production was established. Chinese assembly models are much cheaper than European. For example, bring an electric BMW IX3 directly from China by 15-20 percent cheaper than when ordering from Germany.

Foreign cars for Russians have become more accessible with the strengthening of the ruble, experts say. However, this is far from the only reason for the surge of interest in foreign cars: the Russian domestic market does not offer such an assortment, and it also does not have enough models of some form factors and spare parts.

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In addition, demand at the beginning of spring brings up the upcoming increase in utilization fees since May 1, 2025. Finally, even with the board for the distillation, many cars from abroad are cheaper than analogues sold in the Russian Federation.

At the same time, sales are growing in the country’s domestic secondary market. According to the results of the first quarter in Russia, 1.27 million used cars were sold – five times more than new ones. On the “secondary” there is more the choice of “non -residents”, as well as fewer SUV cars (crossovers and SUVs) that flooded the primary market.

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