Not unexpected given that half of the manufacturing was by foreign brands.
Will be back to normal in two years.
For foreign manufacturers I don’t know. Renault used to make 40% of its profit in Russia.
I often wonder what other people do
I own 4 cars. Newest one is 18 yrs old.
Obviously I do my own wrenching.
All but one 4WD.
Add up the cost of all and it would not add up to one new
cheapie KIA.
Makes you wonder why Russians are so much more stupid than me.
Full disclosure; my great grand father was in the Imperial Russian army.
All those people that held onto their Lada Rivas must feel pretty smug now.
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And how is this different from the U.S.?
I’m sure the Cubans will be glad to help with maintaining old cars.
If I were to believe everything from the WH and the lapdog media, I'd be shocked that there are any new car sales at all in Russia now. I'll take a wild guess that even engaged in WW3 with trench warfare, new car sales in Russia are higher now than they were prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
I don't have a lot of sympathy for anyone - in Russia or in the US - who can't find a new car to buy. My daily is a 25 year old Volvo station wagon with more than 200K and the original clutch.
The age of the average automobile in the US was 12.1 years in 2021.
Americans have been switching to used cars too.
Wonder how much a 1965 Lada goes for these days?
New Cars Are Unaffordable for Most Americans
Twenty years ago, being able to afford a car and a mortgage didn't seem so remarkable. Many Baby Boomers still brag about putting themselves through college and buying their own car with just a part-time job. However, a median-income household today can only afford an average-priced new car in one of the 25 largest U.S. metropolitan areas according to a Bankrate.com report.
“Americans are having to overextend themselves to pay for a new car at today's prices,” said Bankrate.com Analyst Claes Bell in a statement.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cars-unaffordable-most-americans-040137777.html
Americans are also being forced into used cars — and inferior electric “cars” — but our pain is self-inflicted.
Well that’s it. The Russian people will surely rise up against Putin and stop the war now! /s
Mediazona and BBC News Russian, together with a group of volunteers, have confirmed the deaths of 14,093 Russian servicemen killed in the Ukraine war before February 12. They arrived at this total using only public records and other open sources.
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Compare that to more than 150,000 dead on the Ukrainian side.