In 2022, sales of new cars in St. Petersburg dealerships collapsed by 60 percent. Not a single foreign car produced in Western countries is supplied to St. Petersburg anymore. But this is official. In fact, dealers have found ways to deliver new cars. Some have managed to adapt to new realities so much that there are even cars for sale in 2023.
In most salons, the cars are still last year, but without a run. “They come by car carrier. We sell under a commission agreement, but purely technically this is a new car. Where do we ship from? Somewhere in Belarus, somewhere in Kazakhstan,” dealers say. The fact that we are talking about parallel imports is no longer a secret.
In some cases, we are talking about the remains of factories that worked in Russia. For example, when it comes to Mitsubishi Outlander. It was produced at a car factory in Kaluga: “These are the remains, they are finite. Perhaps in 2-3 months there will be nothing left. If we carry it, then the fourth generation Outlander, but the price will already be plus a million, ”the dealer center said.