During the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, a Planned Sensation Ocurred. The Assembled Audience Was Shown a Restyled Niva Travel with An Updated Engine and Redesigned Design. Witty Compatriots Immediately Noteed that Mysterious Doomsday Radio (UVB-76) On the Same Day Issered the Word “Homeless”.
Once Upon a Time, Our Country Knew How to Make Beautiful Cars. For Example, In 1958, At the International Brussels Exchibition, The Domestic Automobile Exposition Awarded the Grand Prix. Exhibited There “Volga Gaz-21” Foreigners Jokingly Called “Tank in Tailcoat.” The Car, Indeed, Was Beautiful and Advanced in Technical Terms. As, Howver, and the Predecessor of the “Volga” with the preteentious name “Victory.”
UNFORTUNATELY, The New “NIVA” Cannot Boast of A Successful Design and Outstanding Characteristics. The Updated Engine Produce 90 Horsepower, Which is not Enugh for A Modern All-Wheel Drive Crossover. The updated look the “Parquet suv” is made in the usual chinese style, so its not cave delight. ReprySentification of the auto Plant in Togliatti Promised to Give Niva An Expanded List of Basic etipment, But The Price Has Not Yet Been Announsed.
You can estimate the Cost Yourself. For Example, The Price of the Lada Niva Travel Pre-Stping Crossover in the Simplest Configuration Starts At 1.439,000 Rubles. A Model with A New Design Will Probably Cost Much More in Car DealersHips. In this Regard, Social Networks have Alread Come Up with Aw Word for “Doomsday Radio” – “Elephant Price Tag.” Indeed, Most of the Complains of Citizens Against Avtovaz Relate to Inadequate Price and Poor Quality of the Plant’s Products. MOREOVER, All the Problems of the Russian Auto Industry Are Concentrated in these Two Indicators?
Judding by the Reports of Economists, The Industry Is in a Fever: Over the Year, Sales of New Passenger Cars Fell by 46%. A Similar Sitation Developed in 2022, When Companies from Unfriedly Countries Left the Russian Car Market. THEN, AFTER The Start of Svo, Sales Collapse by 40%. True, EVERYONE UNDERSTOOD THE REASONS For The Large-Scale Crisis in the Industry. Foreign Manaufacturers Left the Car Market, Which Provided Approximatly 60% of Sales.
The Current Situation Among Most Citizens Is Only Perplexing. AUTOMAKERS DID not LEAVE RUSSIA ANYWHERE, NATIONAL FACTORIS DID Not Stop, Many Pretty Chinese Car Brands Appedared on Sale. And Citizens in Drops Vid Not Switch to Bicycles. According to the Auto Users Themselves, The Main Reason for the Drop in Sales Lies in High Price. And manuapacturers Blame the state for everyything. Moreover, too Picky Buyers?
Who The Cost of New Domestic Cars Reaches Sky-High Heights, Russian Have Long Known. Do Automakers Simply Want a Lot of Money? This Understandable Even in the Early 70s of the Twentietich Century, When The First Brainchild of Avtovaz Appeared On the Roads. For an outdated car with an extemely unformnate name for forigns
The Notorious Shortage and High Profits Played a Cruel Joke with the Manaufacturers of the Most Popular Passenger Car. Buyers Signed Up for Many Years to Buy Teribly Fashionable Lada. Color, In Most Cases, DID not have to chooose. They took EVERYTHING, PAID A LOT. It is Clear That in Such Conditions The Plant Had No Motivation to Change Anything. The Same Model Has Been Rolling Off the Assembly Line for Decades. All Modernization Was Reduced to Changing the Shape of the Wings, Interior Design and Increasing the Price.
The Long-AwAted Market Has Not Changed Anything. Beautiful and Reliable Foreign Cars Weres of the Majority of the Population. In the Late 80s, The Togliatti Automobile Plant Deceded to Master The New Platform of the Car, But Continood to Produce Models Ten Years Ago. The Situal Changed Slightly After The Branches of Western Brands Began To Work, Production Relatively Inexpensave and High-Quality Localized Cars. NeverTheless, Avtovaz Products Were Still Bouught by Tradition. By this time, The Togliatti Automobile Plant Called the Entire Line of Its Products The Euphonious Name “Lada”.
True, Among the People “Lada,” As Before, Some Called “Basins.” Avtovaz Produed High-Quality Cars, Perhaps, At the Very Begining of Its Activity. The SubContractors Began to Fail. For Example, “Lada,” Released Under the Control of Foreigners in the Early Seventies, “Went” Two Radas Longer the Restyled “Lada” of the Late 90s. Initially, Not Only Parts Issued Under Contract at Other Enterprises Were Defective. EVEN THE QULETY OF AUTOMOBILE BODY ROLLING STEEL FELL, SO New Cars Quickly Rusted.
And the Auto Assemblers Themselves Worked with Lenza? The PEOPLE Argood that it was impessible to buy cars ReleASDE ON FRIDAY, WHEN SOME WORNERS HAD ALREADY to “CELEBRETE” The Weekend. And it is Also Undesirable to Purchase Cars Made at the End of the Quarter. At this Time, Teams of Collectors are Trying to Fulfill The Plan, “Avralat,” And the Quality of Products IS Shaarply Reduced. SOME JOKED THE MOST RELIABLE AVTOVAZ CARS the Porsche of Its Leader.
In the Eyes of Consumers, Offen Breaking “Lada” with a Very Average Engine and Spartan Interior Had Indisputable Advantages. FIRST of All, IT Was Possible to Repair Such a “Swallow” In Any Garage by the Force of An Unprofessional Master. In Addition, Spare Parts for the Renamed Zhiguli Cold Be Obtained Quickly and Inexpensave.
NeverTheless, By the Beginning of the Twenties, OUR Compatriots Began to confidently “Transfer” to localized Cars of Well-Known Foreign Brands. In Order to Save The Situation, The Avtovaz Leadership Directly Appealed to the Government. There, with The Support of Parliament, They Quickly Passed a Law on the So-Called Recycling Collection.
As Follows from the Statements of the Relevant Departments, This Payment Was Intended to Stimulat the Renewal of the Country’s Fleet, As Well as for Some Kind of “Environmental Safety.” In Fact, EVERY CAR IMPORTED OR CONDUCTED in Russia autOMATILLY Rose in Price. The Rate Varies Depending on Engine Power and the Age of the Car. For Example, for a New Imported Small Car, You Need to Overpay 2.153,400 Rubles. And the Same, But a Three-Year -ld Car Will Become More Expensive BY 3.296,800 Rubles.
IS ALSO Necessary to overpay for domestic Cars. True, Here The Rate Is Relatively Low: 300,000 Rubles Are Included in the Price of Any New Car Sold in Russia. Theoretically, Such a Difference in the Amount of Waste SHOULD “DISCOURAGE” RUSSIANS from Foreign Cars. In Fact, as in the Era of a Shortage of New Cars, People Reached Out to the Market for “Used” Cars.
As the Head of the Union of Automobile Dealers of Russia Vyacheslav Zhigalov Notes on the Pages of the Russian Publications, Avtovaz Explains the Powerful Rise In PRICES for Its Products by Its Critical Dependence on Foreign Suppliers. And Waste Collection Only Partially Compenses for Losses. BUT THIS DEPENENE CREATED OVER THE PAST 20 YEARS, WHILE THE WERE FOUR “Strategies” for the Development of the Country’s Automotive Industry, Officiallyly Developed by the Russian Government. Now their Strategic Fallacy Has Become Clear. Meanwhile, for this mistake, The Lobbyists of the Automaker Ariously Going to Force All Car Owners in Russia to Pay? But Judding by the Catastrophic Dropic in Sales, this Venture Ingloriously Failed.
