>>2063540current russian car prices are wack because they are really pushing towards a monopoly on the russian market, where everything else including chinks got tariffs now so lada can set prices just slightly lower than chink+tariff and get huge margins.
before the special military operation they were actually comparable in price, and you had a choice- get a chinese or korean car that was extensively engineered to have an exactly 5-year lifespan, or get a russian car that had no regard for longevity either but was engineered in such a comparatively naive and primitive way that with regular maintenance you could make it suffer its existence for well over a decade.
