Media reported about a possible jump in car prices since the beginning of 2017 – RBC

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car Prices in the beginning of 2017 may be significantly increased due to the weakness of the national currency

the New jump of the prices for cars may happen early next year, reports the newspaper “Kommersant”, citing sources in the market. This is due to two reasons. First, car salesmen indicate a weak ruble and believe that the growth of prices for cars have not played fall of the national currency over the past two years. “The hope was that the ruble stabiliziruemost in the positive, but this did not happen, so you need to continue to play,” said the source.

In one of the largest dealers told the newspaper that the company with the new year laying the increase of average prices by 10-15% due to the unstable exchange rate, but companies will adapt to the market and “roll back the prices by special offers, if need be.”

Another cause of rising prices is called the cost of the security system integration of ERA-GLONASS. One of the newspaper’s sources indicated that the cost of installation can vary from 6 million rubles to the model. He, however, difficult to say how this will affect the final price of the car.

in Addition, the newspaper’s sources indicate that consumers do not expect discounts in the end of the year because automakers are now “in the red”.

according to the publication, since the beginning of the year prices for new cars rose on average by 7%. More likely increased the cost of Japanese brands Mazda and Toyota — 10-11%, Skoda — by 10%. Ford rose by about 9%.