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We Entered Our Harbor

2024

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We Entered Our Harbor
We Entered Our Harbor
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/EXHIBITIONS, SALONS

WE WENT TO OUR HARBOR …

VIII EXHIBITION “AUTO + AUTOMECHANICS” HELD IN ST. PETERSBURG

TEXT / SERGEY KANUNNIKOV

PHOTO / ALEXANDER POLUNIN

Moscow and Peter have long vied for the right to be called the museum, literary, cultural center of the state. This year, the motor show in the northern capital clearly managed to take the title of the main Russian automobile exhibition of the year from the Moscow Motor Show. In the Lenexpo complex, which is next to the famous St. Petersburg harbor, dealers and manufacturers came together who refused in 2000 to be shown at the throne. We use the familiar slogan: visitors to "Auto + Auto Mechanics" received "more car dealership." In St. Petersburg, companies did not stint on show-stoppers - new products on the Russian market or simply catchy expensive cars.

Volkswagen flaunted Russian premieres - updated by Sharan and Passat. The latter was first lit up most recently - in Paris. The company hopes to sell 1, 500 Passat sedans and station wagons this year. Bold plans are based on the popularity of the model, the widest range of modifications, including all-wheel drive. If we judge the sales prospects by the interest of visitors, then the Passat in Russia has a great future (test new items - in this issue).

The center of the Volvo exhibition was the solid S60 sedan. The path from the banks of the Seine, where the world premiere took place, to the banks of the Neva took very little time.

Another premiere, and, strictly speaking, world premiere, is Izh 2126 4x4 (ЗР, 2000, No. 11). Factory workers promise that in the near future all-wheel drive hatchback will go to dealers. Izhevsk Quattro has no Russian analogues, but its success will depend primarily on reliability and, of course, price.

Those who could not attract the audience with the premieres also decorated their stands with zest. Fifty 280-horsepower Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution / Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI Tommy Myakinen Editions, intended for Russia, are unlikely to stay with dealers. Visitors to the St. Petersburg exhibition could admire the spectacular horse enough until it was locked in a rich private stable. Mitsubishi rival in rally tracks is the sports Peugeot 206. The bright red Chevrolet Camaro successfully attracted visitors not only to itself, but also to its more modest neighbors - Opel.

Almost for the first time at the Russian motor show they showed a family of “jaguars” - models S, XJ and even the XK coupe. From those who wished to see (and if they were lucky and stroke!) There was no end to the “tailed” ones.

Those for whom the car is a profession were interested in more mundane exhibits - spare parts, tools, garage equipment and machinery workers. The exposition of trucks and buses in terms of representativeness lost to Moscow and had an applied character. The main contenders for the sympathy of the exploiters gathered on the shores of the Baltic. LiAZs with Caterpillar engines already run on St. Petersburg routes. Muscovites would not mind compiling a Volzhanin-5270 with a 230-horsepower Yaroslavl unit and a PAZ-5272 on a KamAZ chassis. MAZ and Scania showed large buses based on St. Petersburg registration. Minsk residents are negotiating the production of a low-floor MAZ-103 at the Kirov plant, and the Swedes are trying to arrange the assembly of city cars in one of the auto farms.

While still flaunting at the stands, some exhibits found their customers. Peter will be home to the new Passat and socialite “Peugeot 607”. The ideal conditions for their habitation are an unhurried fashion show on Nevsky, between fashion shops and expensive restaurants. On the potholes of other streets of St. Petersburg, the suspension will not be easy. It would be good if the considerable taxes introduced by the sellers and buyers of thoroughbred foreigners into the treasury helped repair the roads and get rid of the elderly, the era of forgotten CMEA, "Ikarus". It turns out that the fact that brilliant show-stoppers and low-key city “cars” “moored” in the St. Petersburg harbor is quite logical.

The new face of the Volkswagen-Sharan.

The British predator for the Russian tamer is the Jaguar XK8.

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