There are more and more super rich people in Russia and they have expensive tastes. Last year they spent $2.5 bn on imported, new luxury cars- models that stand out in a traffic jam.
One foreign vehicle salesman
say:Russia is a place where the rich find it quite normal to buy two or three cars at once,even if they are just flashy, summer toys.
DaimlerChryles has a lot of rivals in that niche market . but its Russian prospects still look extremely bright . Last year the company celebrated a record 92-per-cent increase in Russian sales. It put . a new Mercedes model encrusted with Swarovski crystals on display in its Moscow showroom