The used car market in Russia or where is the most profitable to buy a car

Buying a car is a pleasant and at the same time troublesome process for a car owner, providing for the need to resolve many issues of a diverse nature. And if the price budget and the preferred vehicle model are often determined by the buyer's income and financial capabilities, then the questions of whether to buy a new or used car and where it is better to buy it are more difficult to solve, they require a thorough market analysis to determine the most favorable conditions.

The question of where the cheapest cars are sold often arises among buyers who have already faced the problem of choosing a car, and by analyzing market prices, they determined that the cost of the same model, brand, and equipment varies significantly depending on the location of the point of sale. Let's try to figure out in the article why the pricing policy of used vehicles differs, the statement about the regional difference in prices is the norm, or is it an unjustified myth and, accordingly, we will answer the question where you can buy the cheapest car in Russia.

Features of car price formation

Before starting to figure out where the cheapest cars are sold, namely, to determine the localization of the market with profitable offers, it is worthwhile to figure out what factors the price policy of the product depends on.

Regardless of the criterion, in Russia or in any other corner of the world, the cost of goods is formed in accordance with the laws of the economy, and the cost of materials, labor and the cost of manufacturing a machine is immediately included in the price of a vehicle. If it comes to a new car, then there is a "cheat" of the salon for goods permitted by law, provided that the commercial facility operates on official terms. Accordingly, we can conclude: in certified car dealerships working directly with the manufacturer, the pricing policy of cars will be approximately identical.

The situation is different with the secondary market. Here, the formation of the price depends not only on the year of production of the car and its service life, the equipment of the transport, the technical condition of the unit, but also on many additional nuances, such as seasonality, the prestige of the car and its liquidity in the secondary market, maintainability, as well as on some factors, not always clear to the average buyer.

One of these aspects is the opportunity to purchase a car that is identical in characteristics, condition and years, much cheaper in one region than in another. Accordingly, some buyers have a logical question whether this fact is a regularity, and if so, in which region of Russia are the cheapest cars, which will be discussed further.

Dependence of the price of a car on the region

As practice shows, the price formation for a used vehicle is really influenced by the seller's geolocation in almost one hundred percent of cases, however, the cost variability also depends on the criterion of how prestigious and status the desired car is.

If a potential buyer is looking for an answer to the question of where the cheapest domestic cars are sold, then they will mainly have to look in remote regions and in rural areas. As for the search for a popular budget class model or an expensive premium class foreign car, the more "indulgent" price will be in densely populated regions and megalopolises. This nuance of price formation is explained by the logical interdependence of supply and demand: the more cars of a certain model are put up for sale in a particular region, the lower the final price of the car will be.

The second aspect affecting the range of prices for used cars in Russia is the prestige of the desired car: a potential buyer will be able to significantly save on the variability of the cost of goods, depending on the regional location of the seller, when purchasing a status car, while price fluctuations for inexpensive, budget cars will be below.

Theoretically, price variability can be estimated by an elementary analysis of the cost of a particular car brand, with reference to the model and year of manufacture, without entering a search region on any popular site where used cars are sold. With such an analysis, it is imperative to take into account the error in the technical condition of the vehicle, which does not always correspond to the declared characteristics by the seller.

In search of a specific answer to the question of where the cheapest cars are sold in Russia, most buyers analyze the market for the sale of secondary vehicles from various sources of information, considering both advertisements in the networks and printed popular publications with advertisements for the sale of used cars. This approach makes it possible to globally assess the variability of the cost of a certain car brand in different regions of the country. However, when considering the option of purchasing a car in a region remote from the buyer's place of residence, a potential car owner should take into account the costs of travel to the location of the goods for its visual assessment, and for transporting the car to his home, which affects the profitability of purchasing an "inexpensive" car far from your place of residence.

Let's try to concretize where you can find the cheapest cars, focusing on specific vehicle models, with reference to the geography of their production, official centers for their sale and dealer companies.

Geolocation of "inexpensive" cars

To buy an inexpensive car is a logical desire of every potential buyer: to save money, and at the same time to acquire a unit worthy of characteristics, in good technical condition. In turn, each seller, when selling his car, wants to get the maximum profit. These two rules are inalienable conditions of a market economy, however, the upper limit of the cost of a product always has specific restrictions imposed by the conditions of competition, the interdependence of supply and demand. In Russia, there are regions that are positioned as points where the cheapest cars are sold, but the location of inexpensive cars varies, depending on the criterion of which brand or model of vehicle a potential buyer wants to purchase.

As already mentioned, in most cases the goods are sold cheaper in those regions where supply exceeds demand, which is mainly relevant for densely populated cities and megalopolises, as well as in regions geographically close to car factories or points of import of foreign cars. Given the task of buying the cheapest car, it is best for a potential buyer to consider cities such as Ulyanovsk, Togliatti, Nizhny Novgorod, Izhevsk and other facilities where domestic vehicles are produced. If a buyer is looking for an inexpensive foreign car in the vastness of Russia, then experts recommend screaming the ad market of Tatarstan, Taganrog, Kaluga or Yekaterinburg, where you can find a car at a bargain price.For example, in Tatarstan, the production of Ford and Fiat cars has been established, which affects the cost of these cars in a positive direction in the secondary market, in Taganrog or Yekaterinburg Hyundai can be bought at an attractive price, and in Kaluga the cheapest cars under the Volvo and Renault brands.

Kaliningrad is a city where there are not only car factories, but also through which the main transportation route of foreign cars from European countries passes. This fact allows us to consider Kaliningrad, according to experts, as one of the most profitable regions, where the cheapest used cars are sold, with different brands and models.

The St. Petersburg market is also attractive and variable in terms of pricing policy for the buyer. St. Petersburg is a city where the production and sale of cars of different status has been established, as well as the ports through which most vehicles from Switzerland and Germany pass, due to which their cost is understated against the background of other cities according to the increased supply of goods of this category in comparison with demand ...

For residents of the eastern regions of Russia, for whom the previous option is not suitable due to the unprofitability of buying a car in St. Petersburg due to the regional remoteness of the place of residence, Vladivostok is a worthy alternative, where you can buy a cheap, however, high-quality, reliable and fresh “loin” or “Japanese woman” "Transported by waterways to local ports.

The leader among the cities, which is distinguished by expert appraisers as a place where the cheapest vehicles of different brands and manufacturers are presented on the secondary market, is Moscow. The most favorable prices in the capital are the prices for used domestic cars, since in Moscow there is a predominant number of official stores and small points of sale of new cars, which does not allow to overstate the price of vehicles in the secondary market. As for foreign cars, you can also find lucrative offers in Moscow, however, it is harder to do this, since mostly more prestigious cars are purchased by residents of the megalopolis through official car dealerships, and this, in turn, makes it impossible to significantly reduce the price of goods when sold.

Apart from geography, the pricing policy of cars is also influenced by the method of purchasing a vehicle. If we consider standard buying methods, such as searching for a preferred car model through acquaintances or friends, popular sales sites on the Internet, shopping portals, electronic sites or standard car markets, then the chances of saving money by choosing goods in regionally advantageous places are very high. If, however, a non-standard purchase method is included in the “geographic” factor, the result will be even more attractive in terms of financial benefits for the buyer. For example, an excellent option to save money is to search for a car on the trading floors of banks or credit organizations, where cars, "selected" for debts, are sold under the hammer at bargain prices. Searching for a car at a corporate fleet sale is another way to buy a car at a bargain price, however, in this case, you should be very careful not to buy a "killed" car that requires capital investment.

When analyzing the used car market, the buyer should be very careful and careful, taking into account not only the price of a specific vehicle model, but also comparing it with the technical condition of the car, age, cleanliness of documentation, mileage and other factors of no small importance in the selection of goods. In parallel, it is worth adding the approximate cost of delivery of the goods from the place of sale home in order to calculate the real "savings", and not just the price discrepancy in different regions of the country.

Summarizing

Buying a car at a bargain price in modern times is more than a feasible task. To do this, it is enough not to rush, before purchasing a car, to inspect in detail the secondary sales market not only in your city or village, but also in the adjacent regions, which allows you to do modern technologies and popular sites on the Internet.

If you approach the purchase of a car deliberately and carefully, spend a little more time looking for a profitable copy, then the result will surprise you not only with the quality indicators of the vehicle, but also with a pleasant bonus in the form of saved money, and the purchased car will become a faithful friend and helper in any situation. Happy shopping!