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.
In Russia the average car is 10,4 years.
If you’d deduct millions of the 1980 Lada Rivas which refuse to die and cost nothing to run, the average age is going to be probably half that of the US.