Thanks to parallel imports, there are more than 500 car models from 85 brands on the Russian market. Sergey Udalov, managing director of Avtostat, spoke about this. transmits TASS. At the same time, he noted that only 68 models of 17 brands are officially presented in Russia.
“We’ve officially ‘shrunk’ from 74 points to 17. But the numbers show that now it’s really possible to buy 85 brands and 501 models on the market. Why? Why? Because we started actively developing the so-called parallel imports. This means that cars are imported without the consent of the owners of these brands. Officially, we see that there are 17 brands and 68 models left, and unofficially, we currently have 85 brands and 501 models left.”
In May, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation approved a list of goods allowed for parallel importation, which includes Chevrolet, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Volkswagen, Audi, Toyota and other brands.
socialbites.ca regularly talks about new products that dealers import or offer to bring to the Russian Federation. Earlier it was reported about proposals to bring the Chinese. hatchbacks Ford Focus, passages Kaiyi X3 Pro from China and also SUVs LiXiang L9 and otherLike the Changan Auchan X5.