Car owners believe that the cost of car maintenance this year can grow by 38%. This conclusion was made by specialists of the agency "AUTOSTAT" during the preparation of a new marketing report "The barometer of mood and financial situation of Russian car owners". The results are based on the results of an online survey conducted in March. More than 5,000 car owners, users of the Auto Mail.ru website, took part in this survey. They were asked the question: “How much do you feel your cost of a car maintaining will increase in 2022?” At the same time, the costs were understood to be: insurance, taxes, fuel costs and maintenance of the car.
A more detailed processing of the survey results allows us to judge that, in general, in the sample, almost 23% of car owners expect an increase in costs by 20-30%. And every fifth (20.5%) respondent believes that the cost of car maintenance will increase more than 1.5 times. By the way, almost the same ratio is observed among the owners of cars in the mass segment. In the premium segment, the picture is different: here the majority (27.2%) is sure that expenses will increase by more than a half, and one in five (20.2%) assumes that by 20-30%. But where the moods of the owners of both mass and premium cars converge, it is in the number of optimists who think that costs will not increase (will remain at the level of 2021). In all cases, there was a minimum of those, from 2.5% to 3.1%.
