Russia bans foreign cars for government

Posted on 15-07-2014 at 22:24 by JordyS – 22 Comments”

Vladimir Putin can have his Mercedes S600 Pullman final sale. Prime minister Dmitry Medvedev has decided that government employees now only in Russian cars can drive.

The Russian car market is obviously already on his hole and Medvedev hopes to be there with his decision to do something about it. Sollers, Kamaz and GAZ have temporary work enough, because they are allowed to start working with the design of the new number of company cars. It is intended that these designs will result in employee’s cars in 2016 on the road.

That is the practical side of the decision. The symbolic side is perhaps even more important, especially for the proud Russians. They are there sincerely to annoy that their leaders show themselves in western-style cars. In addition, it is also of course true that Russia wants to show that it does not rely on western manufacturers. That is definitely now of interest, because the voltage is quite high.

Incidentally, it was there for quite a while that Putin himself would let you ride in a Russian beast. Ringtone was in the Soviet era is responsible for the armoured cars of the Russians and was in 2010 commissioned with a contemporary design. There was however nothing of.