Domestic auto industry is ready to conquer the Far East

Russian cars Avedis Agriev true for many years. It is easier for a new "PRIOR" car for pensioners does not exist. The first machine of this brand, which arrived on the island, and now his pride. Conquers the island highway motorist, not hiding his pleasure. "For example, I love this car!" I do not know will happen, but love! "Look, 16 valves! Rate her very much. The speedometer indicated only two hundred," - said Avedis Agriev, motorist. Despite the vagaries of weather and the severity of the Sakhalin road, motorists have never regretted my purchase. But such as Avedis Ashotovich, on the island a bit. Today, a hundred cars on the road, only ten of Sakhalin in Russia. And often this technique the police, ambulance or public transport. Ordinary citizens prefer to ride on Japanese cars. Buy foreign used cars in the Far East began in 1990. When domestic enterprises faced difficulties, while Japan offered to buy second hand cars at low prices. So foreign cars drove from the islands "Lada" and "Muscovites". Today, a Japanese car on the island of travel 70% of the residents. At least 15% Russian. Foreign brand cars, but that was collected in Russia, gained less than 1% of Sakhalin. Five per cent of motorists buy European cars. The remaining market of transport - the Korean technology. While the authorized dealers of foreign companies there. There are only a small private car services. Now on the market of the island are all the companies of the Russian automobile industry. You can buy any cars from Lada Kalina to KAMAZ. The quality of domestic cars at Sakhalin raises many questions. "How often do they break down, mostly to ask. And we have the machine under warranty. Warranty two years on cars. It is convenient that we have spare parts here, and pass inspection," - says Svetlana Demidova, sales manager of the service center "Lada" . The Russian car dealership to buy the islanders a year about a thousand machines. A Japanese car for the same period in the traffic police registered more than six thousand. Bring to Sakhalin domestic car - not an easy job. The road from the factory to the buyer takes less than a month. As soon as an order, the railroad cars get to the island. From Togliatti, Ulyanovsk, Kurgan car ride to the ferry Vanino. Then the sea were brought to the island port. From Nizhny Novgorod, the trip takes most of the time. Trains pass through Moscow and sent to Vladivostok. And the cost of transportation rather big. Now surcharge to the cost of each car - more than sixty thousand. But even if the waste will be reset to the railroad, for the ferry would still have to pay to the buyer. Sakhalin residents easier and faster to bring an old foreign car. The new Toyota Corolla from the factory assembled in Russia Sakhalin will cost about 800 thousand rubles. The same car but with Japanese plant on Sakhalin Island will cost not less than one million. For Russian machine like the latest "Volga", sahalinets pay about 550 rubles. "I think our people should be able to choose between the new Russian cars of excellent quality and a foreign car that is going on in Russia", - said Konstantin Stroganov, Acting Governor Sahaliskoy area. Avedis Ashotovich still stands on Sakhalin highways. Constantly monitors the updating of Russian brands of cars and not let industry news. But maybe in a few years of like-minded pensioner on the roads of the island will be more.