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31 january more infoI would like to describe the situation, in which the Russian car market is now. To do this we’ll move forward in the history.
Our car market is approximately 20 years old. The first statistic on the mass import of foreign cars in our country dated back to 1992-1993.
28 januarymore infoAt the beginning of 2011 the number of light commercial vehicles (LCV) registered in all Russian regions was 3.5 million.

Queues for a new estate car of increased capacity, Lada Largus, sales of which were started only two weeks ago, were stretched to a half of year but by the words of dealers it doesn’t stop many customers. Though, this boom should be stopped soon, when AvtoVAZ would launch the full production volume of Lada Largus cars.
As wrote «РБК daily» with the referring to its sources, it was sold more than 1,1 thousand of cars of this model from July 16th, when sales of Lada Largus cars were started. “This car justified hopes of AvtoVAZ as the plant was going to sell 1,2-1,3 thousand of Largus cars for the first weeks”, - informed the interlocutor.
Representatives of dealer centres of AvtoVAZ remarked that this new car is very popular, even the term of expectation up to 180 of working days doesn’t stop many customers. Representatives of several show rooms said that there are no available Lada Largus cars and the waiting term could varies from two to three months, “The waiting term of car is six months in the agreement but cars usually come earlier”, - the representative of dealer centre “Avtogermes” explained RBK daily.
Lada Largus is the estate car on platform B0, the joint project of Renault and AvtoVAZ. The serial production of this model was started on April 4th of this year and the start of sales was on July 16th. The price of new car varies from 380 thousand Roubles to 420 thousand Roubles. As representatives of AvtoVAZ announced earlier, it is planned to produce 27 thousand of Largus cars till the end of this year.
| 02.08.12 | AUTOSTAT |
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