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Opel and Chevrolet will leave the car market of the Russian Federation in October
The Russian representative office of General Motors reported that the Opel and Chevrolet brands will leave the Russian market in a month, Informing.ru reports.
In the regions, approximately 6 thousand cars remain at the car warehouses of concerns, and this approximately corresponds to the monthly level of sale, the media representatives themselves inform the dealers themselves.
Following their words, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, car dealerships experience a shortage of almost all running models of these brands-an account of vehicles in stock, goes per units, and orders, as it became known, are no longer accepted for future supplies, RBC notes.
General Motors planned that the sale of cars in the Russian Federation will end at the end of this year. Recall that the GM car was announced about his departure from the Russian car market in March. The manufacturer also noted that the maintenance of Opel and Chevrolet has saved the holding.
Earlier there was information that the manufacturer of Honda was completing the import of cars, motorcycles and power equipment into Russia.
The company's management did not specify that the final care of the brands of Honda and Acura from the Russian market. Meanwhile, most of the representatives will be reduced, the ranks of dealers will also significantly thin, although they will have the opportunity to import cars on their own.
The company promised to fulfill the obligations for 2015 and sold in Russia, as planned, 1000 cars. After that, Honda and Acura will not be supplied to Russia through the representative office of a Japanese company.
The company's affairs in the Russian market have long been going on for a long time: according to AEB statistics, in seven months since the beginning of the year, Honda sales have decreased by 78% relative to the same period last year - to 2,742 pcs. (12,424 pcs. In 2014). Now in Russia only CR-V crossovers and the remnants of the CROSSTOUR and Honda Pilot of the second generation are sold.