Jay Leno's Garage

12 Ocak 2016 Salı

But still the vast majority of classic owners Jay Leno's Garage are buying foreign cars. Main advantages – the desire to have the exclusive world level, quite a simple scheme for the purchase of spare parts (no less than Soviet cars, and the logistics are quite simple) and perhaps the reliability of foreign cars. You can also note a surge of acquisitions of cars of the last century. In the Rally club of classic cars this year we had the pleasure of watching "Reno", "Chevrolet", "Horch", "Mercedes" with more than 100 years – cars, which no one else in the world except the Russian collectors". But, beyond doubt, the main "killer market" was the sharp devaluation of the ruble.

Rigid adherence to the Euro in combination with the ever-increasing price has translated "classic cars" into the category of outrageous luxury. If we talk about numbers, for example, to bring the same car two years ago cost 4 million rubles, now worth 10 million. That is, the price tag has grown in two and a half times. Due to the difficult economic situation in the country, many owners of these cars try to sell them. Accordingly, domestic market is saturated. In this case, knowing that to sell the car for adequate (by European standards) price is almost impossible, the owners are forced to part with cars almost for nothing. As a consequence, interest in such machines originated with Western collectors. But because of the problems outlined above this applies to a maximum of 30% of the available offerings on the market. Thus, the most valuable are the European model, naturally, in completely original condition. However, with the export of cars abroad is not so easy.

The boy Rocco, the owner of the company for the sale and restoration of cars OldtimerCars: "First question: how to transport the car overseas. Even if the machine is on the guest rooms, patiesam and all documents to legally sell it abroad without paying the state 10% of the cost, is unrealistic. Because, if a machine is over fifty years old, she automatically is considered a cultural value. Yes, now further amended that cultural value is a machine, which is more than hundred years. But not a single expert of the Ministry of culture will not let a piece of paper that the machine is not a cultural value, if it is more than fifty years. Second question: sales in the country. We can say that the Russian market of classic cars – a mirror of the social strata.

There is a very narrow segment of expensive cars owned by really rich people who have 100-200 cars. Their collection is estimated at tens and hundreds of millions of dollars. There are such people, but very few of them. And there are other people that warm the 21st "Volga" in the garage. And the owners of this Soviet "rot" for 100 thousand rubles is quite a lot. But we have no middle class, and therefore no market. Accordingly, if you want to sell any Jaguar 50‑h years, you will not sell. In Russia nobody need. Now no one will pay 100 thousand euros, Jay Leno's Garage about 7 million rubles for such a car. People are selling everything: house, land, apartments, cars. And such "unnecessary luxury", as the Oldtimer, buying at the last turn".