Russia is a military power in everyone's impression, the force value is full, the military industry skill point MAX, Putin came to power after the iron fist of the country is even more uneasy for Western politicians. Just such a Russia in addition to the military industry in other areas appear to be slightly crotch, crotch to what extent, Russia was sanctioned by Western car companies, the Russian people hope that Russia's local car companies can stand up to fight back, but unfortunately no car companies can stand up. Russia's automobile industry in modern times basically did not have a model to hand, a few years ago parallel imported into the domestic hardcore small off-road vehicle Lada mud tiles, its quality can be said to be no different from our "car living fossil" BAIC manufacturing 212.
Now There are only one or two car companies in Russia that can be named, and basically only sold in Russia, although the previously mentioned Lada is a local enterprise, but Lada has long been acquired by the Nissan-Renault alliance, and the rest of the car companies sold in Russia are basically foreign-funded cars, and it is no wonder that Russia said that it was sanctioned by Western car companies.
But don't look at the current Russian car companies in the car circle has no sense of existence, they also had a highlight moment, to understand the Russian automobile industry, all this has to start from the former Soviet Union. The Russian auto industry in the Soviet era started very early, as early as the 1930s, and it took decades to change from nothing to an auto powerhouse, yes, you heard right that the Russian auto industry in the Soviet Union was an automotive powerhouse. By the 1980s or so of the Soviet Union has a lot of car manufacturing plants, in addition to making military cars, from entry-level family cars to luxury cars to supercars are also readily available, peak period statistics, the annual output of Soviet cars second only to the United States, Japan reached the third position in the world, in addition to self-production and self-sales, but also exported to many countries in the world, in the early years in our country can also see Gill, Gas, Volga, Lada and other models, quite loved by our leaders.
For Chinese, especially middle-aged people, Volga evokes their memories of the lost years. In the 1950s, among the cars used by leading cadres, the Volga was the main model. Its passenger list includes Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, commanders of major military regions, etc. At the beginning of the formation of the Chinese state guest convoy, it was a "convoy of all countries" mixed with various imported vehicles. In 1962, the central leaders were sent to Beidaihe, and there were also "Volgas" in the "International Motorcade" composed of 110 vehicles. Since the logo of this brand of sedan is a deer galloping with its head held high, it has an additional name after entering China - "Golden Deer". The Volga once became a benchmark for car performance in China. Soon after Changchun FAW produced the "Hongqi" sedan, Deng Xiaoping inspected the plant. The first thing he asked about the performance of the "red flag" was "How about the 'red flag' compared to the 'volga'?" Deng Xiaoping was very happy when he heard the answer that he was more senior than the Volga. Even in the late 1980s, the military was equipped with Volga cars as a special treatment. It has to be said that the Volga at that time was more popular with leaders than Audi.
It is such a volga that can be compared to the Mercedes-Benz BMW Audi at that time, in the Huge Car Family of the Soviet Union is still only one of the vast beings, it is only responsible for the production of mid-to-high-end cars, below there is also the production of entry-level models of Lada, above there is also responsible for taking the luxury route of Gil....... It was just that the Soviet people themselves did not think that this was the beginning, but they did not expect that it was a ceiling, after which their country's automobile industry was in the same place, and production and market share began to plummet over time. The reason for this is also very simple, that will be their country as a whole is busy with the United States to engage in the Cold War, engage in an arms race, vigorously develop the military industry, military vehicles are replaced very quickly, civilian cars are rarely replaced, has been maintaining the appearance of the old model. With the end of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russia did not invest funds and minds to engage in the civilian car market after inheriting most of the soviet unions at that time, and adhered to a principle: "It is not impossible to drive, it can be opened."
With the passage of time, When German, American, and Japanese car manufacturers are developing new cars and new configurations, Russian cars have been standing still in place, people's aesthetics have changed, old things are no longer loved by consumers, and the financial crisis in 2008 has made volga automobile factories also go to the brink of bankruptcy, and even with several car companies with unlimited styles before, they "mentioned" the names of the four major broken in Eastern Europe.
When Russia reacted to prepare to re-develop the automobile industry, but found that because they did not want to forge ahead for many years, they had already been thrown off by a variety of automobile manufacturers N streets, this time they wanted to come up with a riot operation, the introduction of foreign-funded car companies to bring themselves, Russia forgot a little, the whole country to buy car consumption people are only such a little people, before because there is no choice to buy domestic cars, now after seeing so many good-looking foreign cars, found that the previous domestic cars look good and better to drive too much, how to choose, Consumers are very clear in their hearts, so the major car companies began to frantically seize the Russian market, for them to grab food from Russian car companies is completely a dimensionality reduction blow, and soon Russian local car companies will suffer a heavy blow. The quality of Russian car companies is simply worrying, even if Putin personally visits, he will not give any face, often can not light the fire or the car door can not be opened This is a routine operation, Putin the Great has seen the pain of the brain melon. Because of this, Russian car companies have fallen into a dead cycle, the quality of the crotch no one buys, no one buys it can not be sold, no money and how to innovate, so it can only go step by step to decline. The bankruptcy and sale of those brilliant automobile factories in those years were not able to get their hands on them.
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