In Russia mobile applications of auto brands Skoda, Kia, Porsche and Nissan stopped to work

German sports car manufacturer Porsche has disabled its mobile application for customers from Russia, which allows you to control remotely some of the vehicle's functions. Dealers informed Gazeta.Ru that problems with applications were also found in Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar Land Rover, Skoda, Kia, Infiniti, Nissan. According to experts, the lack of mobile services will reduce the convenience of owning expensive foreign cars, but it is no longer possible to count on their full-scale support in the current conditions. Since March 2022, most automakers have not been supplying cars to Russian dealers due to a break in supply chains or the suspension of their activities due to external sanctions. Moreover, some officially announced their withdrawal from the Russian market, while retaining the opportunity to return at the first opportunity.

As the Association of Russian Automobile Dealers said in mid-December 2022, no more than 20-30 thousand new cars of foreign brands remained in the warehouses of Russian car dealers. At the same time, there are almost no models from the middle price category, such as Kia, Hyundai, Toyota, Renault, Volkswagen, among them; there are mainly expensive Chinese cars.