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Foreign car sales booming in Russia
Interfax
Moscow, 27 January: Foreign car manufacturers sold around 80,000 cars in Russia in 2001 against 47,800 in 2000, nearly doubling their sales...
America's General Motors increased sales 2.26 times against 2000, selling 2,141 cars, and Ford by 204 per cent, selling 4,124 cars.
The best results among Japanese car manufacturers were achieved by Mitsubishi Motors, which sold 6,004 cars against 3,836 in 2000 (an increase of 56.5 per cent), Nissan - 5,286 cars against 2,536 in 2000 (up 2.08 times) and Toyota - 4,461 cars against 2,307 in 2000 (up 93 per cent.)
Most European car manufacturers effectively doubled their sales. Germany's Volkswagen increased sales 2.09 times, selling 7,254 cars against 3,469 in 2000, and the Czech Republic's Skoda Auto, a Volkswagen subsidiary, increased sales 2.87 times to 8,391 against 2,924 in 2000.
France's Peugeot and Citroen, which earlier played a modest role on the Russian market, increased sales almost three times. Peugeot increased the sale of new cars through the official dealer network by 2.97 times as compared to 2000, selling 4,246 cars against 1,428 in 2000 (604 in 1999), and Citroen increased sales 3.67 times to 1,009 against 275 in 2000 and 90 in 1999...
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