EduardFaritov, ananalyst at RenaissanceCapital, an investmentbank, thinks RussiacouldoutstripGermanyasEurope's biggestmarketthis year, with salesreaching around 3.3m.
"It's a return to the glorious past of distributing pretty much every dollar they earn, " said Adam Landes, oil and gas analyst at RenaissanceCapitalbank.
Eduard Faritov, an analyst at RenaissanceCapital, an investment bank, thinks that Russians will be buying nearly 5m new cars a year by then, and 80% of them will be foreign brands.