The journalist spoke about the sale of Japanese cars in the largest car market in Russia the old-school “scheme of selling Japanese cars, which is still practiced at the largest car market in Russia,” Green Corner “. According to him, the sellers of Zelenka offer their goods on a huge territory, where buyers from different regions of the country roam. He spoke about this within the framework of the special project “Russian Fast and Furious”.
“In the old days (…) Siberians came in huge numbers, because Siberia is still a more populated territory, there are several million-plus cities. (…) Vladivostok largely lived in the 90s and later on the fact that it became a kind of a base for these cars, which went further – to Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, and so on, ”said Avchenko. According to him, the offline market scheme continues to be popular among Russians, despite the emergence of online auctions.
Buyers of the Green Corner transported cars to their regions on a variety of trains, until the rules for transporting cars were tightened. “Now, if cars are transported by rail, then in special wagons – the so-called net-car carriers. And then they drove everyone in a row: both post-baggage [wagons] and rocket carriers. There was such an era – very free, even to infinity, “Avchenko noted.
Former navigator Alexei Kozitsky, in turn, described how Japanese cars were transported to Vladivostok in the 90s. According to him, at that time almost the entire fleet was engaged in this – this made it possible to save ships without state support. “The fishermen were especially daring. They somehow learned to put the cars almost vertically to fit more, “- says navigator Alexei Kozitsky.
The special project” Russian Fast and Furious “is dedicated to the life of motorists in the Far East and the unusual automotive culture that began to form in the region back in Soviet time. Already in the 1980s, the first Japanese cars began to be delivered to Primorye. Over time, a huge car market emerged in Vladivostok, which flourished in the 1990s. The active development of the automotive culture influenced the formation of the interests of young Russians and contributed to the appearance of the first Russian drifters in the region.