No sooner had the first Muscovites walked off the assembly line than people immediately stood up and wanted to buy them.
Negotiations on the purchase with the Moscow plant are carried out by taxi companies Citymobil and Yandex Taxi. The industry needs new machines, but on and on Due to Western sanctions, many companies now have nothing to refresh the fleet.
The most modern taxi fleet in Europe is based in Moscow, where the average age of a car is 2.7 years. The situation is different in the provinces.
“For the capital, this issue is not as relevant as, say, for the rest of Russia, where it is [средний возраст автомобиля такси — прим. ред.] more than five years. While the resource can be expanded, it simply becomes unprofitable,” said Stanislav Schwagerus, industry expert.
Crossovers are not that cheap. Taxi companies and other companies will expect more affordable sedans from Moskvich.
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Source: “Commercial”
A picture: Moscow, Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASS
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