Automobile Consortiums Accelerated in Russia
Global car giants have confirmed significance of Russia’s market at the Moscow International Motor Show by presenting the newest models and declaring the sales surge of 30 percent to 40 percent on average.
Spokesmen of automobile giants unveiled their intention to further step up Russia’s sales yesterday, during the Moscow International Moto Show. The most gorgeous plans were voiced by Japan’s Mazda, Mitsubishi Motors and Nissan, which eye the surge of 58 percent, 40 percent and 45.9 percent respectively. For this purpose, Mazda is going to sell over 80,000 cars, Mitsubishi Motors is targeted at 140,000 and Nissan’s aim is 170,000.
Other car makers are more moderate in forecasts, counting on the sales growth of no more than 20 percent to 40 percent. Germany’s Porsche, for instance, plans to sell 2,500 to 3,000 cars in the 2008 fiscal year that started August 1, 2008 to end July 31, 2009. Past year’s sales stood at 1,900. Volvo is aimed at 29,000 cars, growing the sales by 38 percent on year, Audi is going to fuel sales by 33.3 percent to 20,000, Infiniti eyes the increase of 30 percent to sell 7,150 and BMW plans to report the sales of 19,000 by the year’s result (14,000 in 2007).
The common opinion is that Russia’s car market is one of the most booming and attractive today. Ingvar Sviggum, who is the vice president for marketing, sales and service for Ford of Europe said that, in size, Russia will be Europe’s fourth market for his company by 2008 results.
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