The heads of the Russian region bought a “sanctioned” VW Multivan for their fleet

Pictures of a single-volume vehicle with numbers a001aa173 and blue flashing lights appeared on specialized websites. From open sources we managed to find out that the car is registered to the Regional State Treasury Institution “Administration of the Ulyanovsk Region”: this is an organization that, among other things, is responsible for the car depot of the governor and the regional government.

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Volkswagen Multivan T7 was not officially delivered to Russia. The minivan is based on the MQB “passenger” platform and was initially offered only as a rechargeable hybrid. However, in the Ulyanovsk region they chose the classic gasoline version with a 2.0 turbo engine (204 horsepower) and front-wheel drive. In Germany, prices for such minivans start at 56 thousand euros, but judging by the wheels and chrome inserts, it is not the basic version that was purchased.

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Federal law allows regional heads to use special sound and light signals in their assigned territory, and several “flashing lights” can be installed on large vehicles for better visibility. Judging by open data, the Ulyanovsk Volkswagen Multivan T7 was registered for the first time at the end of December 2023.

A luxury Chinese minivan appeared in the fleet of the head of Udmurtia

In other Russian regions, minivan fleets are also being updated, but at the expense of Chinese cars. For example, the authorities of Udmurtia purchased a Hongqi HQ9: the car is on the balance sheet of the Office of the Permanent Representative of the Head of the Udmurt Republic to the President of the Russian Federation.

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