Russia's car sales bubble, pumped up chiefly by the rocketing global oil and gas prices seen until the middle of last year, has popped. Emboldened by February's headlong 35 per cent Russian car sales plunge, autoindustry pundits are suddenly full of historical analogies: Poland's spectacular car sales crash of 2002, Japan after 1989 -when the bubble burst and car sales slumped by almost a million units between 1990 and 1993.
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