Avtopom asks Putin's money from Putin

It is more to take measures to stimulate demand and give money on preferential conditions - two issues that Vladimir Putin will discuss on December 19 at KAMAZ with the leaders of the Russian auto -costs.

At the previous meeting on the car industry, it was decided to increase the duties on the import of used foreign cars to 35%, which caused demonstrations in the Far East .

In addition to financing the investment program, AvtoVAZ now needs about 26 billion rubles - for working capital, settlements with suppliers and refinancing loans, Boris Aleshin, President of AvtoVAZ, told Vedomosti .

The terms of lending in state banks do not suit him: "16-18% is too high, only at least 3.5 billion rubles per year will take interest on interest payments." AvtoVAZ submitted to the VEB an application for $ 1 billion, but there is no decision on this loan.

The deputy chairman of the GAZ group Elena Matveeva agrees: loans are too expensive, and preferential lending should be allocated to replenish working capital, for refinancing the debt and to modernize production.

Aleshin also intends to ask Putin about direct subsidizing from the budget of buyers of cars, including foreign cars collected in Russia, which meets the ecological standards of Euro-3 and above, about $ 1,000. He hopes that such a measure can increase the market by 20%.

Manufacturers of commercial equipment - KAMAZ, GAZ group, Sollers ask that the state gives out loans to authorized leasing companies on preferential terms.

It is necessary to streamline the system of public procurement of vehicles, car manufacturers believe, proposing to increase advances for public procurement from the current 30% to at least 50% and centralize public procurement.

The sale of cars in 2009 in Russia may decrease by 15% with an optimistic forecast, and with a pessimistic one - by 45%, experts of Prisuoterhauskupers calculated. An increase in the credit rate significantly affects the sale of cars. In addition, Russian citizens began to save, due to a decrease in wages.

In 2009, the average price of cars will decrease to 20 thousand dollars, while in the first half of 2008 it was $ 2,2800. The prices for foreign cars collected in Russia will rise, notes ITAR-TASS.

In early 2008, experts predicted that according to the optimistic scenario this year, more than 3.5 million cars will be sold in the Russian market.