“The most money during the reporting period was spent on the purchase of used passenger cars of the Japanese brand Toyota - 697 billion rubles. Next in this indicator, with a noticeable lag, is the German brand BMW (432 billion rubles),” the Autostat report notes.
Over the three quarters of 2024, Russians spent 413 billion rubles on a used Lada, 390 billion rubles on a Kia, and 369 billion rubles on a Mercedes-Benz. During this period, 320 billion rubles were spent on used Hyundai cars.
The amount of 5.04 trillion rubles is comparable to 14% of the expenditure side of the Russian state budget, which amounted to 36.7 trillion rubles in 2024.
Previously, the Russian tire giant Cordiant came under American sanctions.
