40,000
Russia Ford Focus sales in the period up to August

With fears rising that Russia’s car market may now be heading for a harder landing than forecasters had still expected during the closing months of last year, some carmakers were placed in a double bind. 

Not only has this year’s Russian car market failed to live up to optimistic earlier expectations, with seven months car sales already trailing year earlier levels by some 6.6 per cent, the type of car now favoured by Russia’s dwindling new car buyers has also changed...more