One Million Red Ribbons

Increase in customs duty on import of foreign cars has caused a lot of angry statements to a wider group of Russians. In addition to the populist steps related to procurement for state needs two or three dozen cars GAZ-3110, made by the governors of several Far Eastern cities in Russia (the voters are, overwhelmingly, used Japanese cars, and actively protested against the raising taxes), no action by the state, we have not seen. Bye, as well as justification of such a move by the government, was not followed. Let us formulate what has not been said Government, defining what will be the effect. To begin with, let us answer three simple questions: – due to what is done or "who pays for it now" – what would be the medium-term effect on the industry and investors (3-5 years) – what will be long-term impact for the industry and investors (10-15 years). The first question is in itself clear: it pays for Russian population, in which: – reduces the level of comfort while driving – an increasing number of accidents in by less reliable cars – increase in traumatic accidents – increases the number of deaths among Russian citizens on the roads. To illustrate the point that when hit in a traffic accident, domestic cars, all with the same rate continues to turn into a pile of twisted metal, we give an example: One of our colleagues have witnessed the head-on collision car "Volkswagen Passat-B5 Lada and tenth model of what happened on the road to Moscow, St. .