Mercedes-Benz turned out to be one of the few automakers that not only froze its jobs in Russia, but announced his retirement from our market. And this despite the fact that Mercedes supplied new cars to the USSR, and there was even an official service station in Moscow of those years. But you must admit that it is difficult to imagine the Russian market without Mercedes, so dealerships do not close, but gradually move to new working conditions. We studied the range in car dealerships.
Surprisingly, even at the end of December, at official Mercedes dealerships in Moscow, you can find almost all models of the official range, moreover imported “in a white way”, which means it is fully certified and comes with a company warranty. The bins of the motherland they were still rich. The lineup runs from A-Class hatchbacks and CLA sedans to expensive Maybachs, and the bigger the dealership, the wider the choices. Up to the purchase of suitable cars at car dealerships in other cities and delivery.
Of course, officials already have “parallel” cars. They are mainly imported from Europe via Belarus, Kazakhstan or Armenia. According to the managers, such Mercedes are almost no different from legal ones: the on-board electronics speak Russian, the equipment is about the same (bare cars are simply not brought to us). But most of these cars are issued to private owners, so VAT refunds for legal entities are excluded. Also, many “parallel” machines were privately imported and only then delivered to the showroom for commission sale. That is, the car dealership in these transactions acts only as an intermediary and de jure has no obligations.
