Russia has assessed the prospects of its own auto industry platforms

Nikolai Ivanov, director of the new car sales department of Rolf Group of Companies, said that from an economic point of view, developing its own platforms for the Russian automobile industry is inappropriate. Autostat writes about this.

Creating a platform from scratch accounts for about 80 percent of the cost of research and development costs, and only 20 percent is spent on adaptation to a specific market. “This is a common world practice, since the task of the modern economy is to get a better platform for less money, and there is no point in re-developing what has already been created. Investments in our own platforms will require a huge amount of funds and will lead to an increase in costs and expenses, and ultimately the final price of the car for the buyer,” Ivanov noted.

General Director of the Nizhegorodets Group of Companies Valery Volodchenko recalled that joint automobile assembly enterprises have already been created in the country, the controlling stake in which, according to the terms of special investment contracts, belongs to Russian persons in Russian jurisdiction. The main developments of the eastern partners have been transferred there, and now the main focus is on finalizing them.

Ivanov recalled that the Chinese auto industry, one and a half to two decades ago, at its infancy stage, adopted European and Western technologies. The Japanese auto industry took a similar path at one time.