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  1. 0:00Okay, ah, we have the camera, we have
  2. 0:02the sound. Listen, let's agree right
  3. 0:05away, are you for us or for them, or
  4. 0:07for S
  5. 0:08>> for Donbass? What is this? What do you
  6. 0:10mean, because of us, because of them?
  7. 0:11>> Well, here's Changan, hawala. What
  8. 0:13religion do you follow?
  9. 0:15>> BMW.
  10. 0:17>> Well, first of all, first of all, no,
  11. 0:19first of all, Porsche. Okay,
  12. 0:21>> then today I'll go on to
  13. 0:22>> BMW, Volkswagen, and then on about that
  14. 0:24whole case. What is this? What do you
  15. 0:25mean? What are you doing? What the?
  16. 0:28Well, I'll do this right away, you know
  17. 0:29, so as not to see you as a defender of
  18. 0:31the Chinese. Have
  19. 0:32>> you ever heard him defend the Chinese?
  20. 0:35>> Well, you never know, you never know
  21. 0:36how much you hid
  22. 0:37>> from Thailand when you came back. Your
  23. 0:38world could have turned upside down.
  24. 0:40Everything is stable here.
  25. 0:41>> No, I hid the M6 and will continue to
  26. 0:44praise it, because, well, that's normal
  27. 0:47,
  28. 0:47>> right? They didn't screw you over,
  29. 0:48Nikita, they didn't screw you over. You
  30. 0:51see,, how my pants are torn, see?
  31. 0:55Short, see? We do full dismantlings
  32. 0:58when you, well, accumulate some
  33. 1:00information on the matter, when we have
  34. 1:02experience with autoregmat, when we've
  35. 1:04driven around, seen what happens to
  36. 1:06cars after 3-4 years, and we're simply
  37. 1:08reporting on it. People say sternly
  38. 1:11about me: "Well, it doesn't really
  39. 1:12matter what people buy, it's their life
  40. 1:14, their money, and they'll be driving
  41. 1:16it." In all full dismantlings, we
  42. 1:18always maintain a maximally neutral
  43. 1:19position, that simply, look, this is
  44. 1:21what happens, this costs this much,
  45. 1:23this much. Well, in our opinion, it's
  46. 1:26better to look at this, this, or you
  47. 1:28can buy it, but everyone is, quite
  48. 1:29rightly, free to decide for themselves.
  49. 1:32Absolutely calm. Okay,
  50. 1:33>> understood. Then I'll keep quiet today
  51. 1:35and listen.
  52. 1:37>> Good afternoon. To be fair, this video
  53. 1:50has been a long time coming, even after
  54. 1:52we recorded full dissections of Cherry
  55. 1:53and Geely, that we'd dissected these
  56. 1:55Chinese cars, yes, we talked about
  57. 1:57engines, platforms, and so on. And
  58. 2:00where's Hoval? And where's Shangan?
  59. 2:03It's a Bullet rocket. A Bullet rocket.
  60. 2:05On Instagram, they're constantly
  61. 2:07punishing Audi, with all the chips and
  62. 2:09all that. You've seen those, well,
  63. 2:11correction videos, where guys with
  64. 2:13Shangans and staged cars are trying to
  65. 2:14get away from anyone. And Hoval has
  66. 2:17been produced here for how long? The
  67. 2:19plant has been shut down since 2019,
  68. 2:21churning out Hovals, everyone's buying
  69. 2:23them, and so on. It's a very popular
  70. 2:25brand in our country, second only to
  71. 2:27AvtoVAZ. And we really need to figure
  72. 2:29out whether it's alive or not, and how
  73. 2:31it's used, because we definitely have
  74. 2:33some data. And so today we'll continue
  75. 2:37to explore this wonderful lore, because
  76. 2:38, yes, indeed, well, specifically with
  77. 2:39Howalls and Chengans, there are already
  78. 2:41some statistics that can be discussed.
  79. 2:44These cars left the factories, some
  80. 2:46came to us from China, and some
  81. 2:48gathered here. People used them. These
  82. 2:51cars have been driven, and now they're
  83. 2:53happily arriving at the used market,
  84. 2:54and we're sitting there like hyenas,
  85. 2:55watching very carefully. And what's
  86. 2:58left of them? What's the bodywork,
  87. 3:00what's the engine, how much it all
  88. 3:01costs, how much people have lost. And
  89. 3:03so, well, we'll talk about all of this
  90. 3:05today. This is immediately evident from
  91. 3:07our data from the auto industry
  92. 3:08regarding all Chinese cars. In general,
  93. 3:10well, obviously, demand for them in the
  94. 3:12used market is growing. People are
  95. 3:15gradually starting to show interest
  96. 3:17because these cars actually exist, and
  97. 3:18they're significantly cheaper than, say
  98. 3:20, Japanese, Korean, and certainly
  99. 3:22German cars. But demand is growing
  100. 3:26disproportionately, if we take our data
  101. 3:28specifically, where we can see a person
  102. 3:30with money, wanting a car, having an
  103. 3:32idea, we find one for them, they buy it
  104. 3:34, and now they're driving it. Demand is
  105. 3:38only growing noticeably for two brands:
  106. 3:40Geely and Khoval. Chingan is much less
  107. 3:42common. Really, much less common. It's
  108. 3:45more of a topic for Kazakhstan and the
  109. 3:46southern regions of our country. And
  110. 3:49the Cherry Zoo, all those sub-brands,
  111. 3:52like, whatever they have, Chryry, Joura
  112. 3:55,
  113. 3:58>> Net. Well, that's our assembly, but it
  114. 4:00doesn't matter. In short, all these
  115. 4:02Cherry sub-products, there's no demand
  116. 4:04at all. Their huge volumes are mainly
  117. 4:06purchased from taxi companies, for
  118. 4:08commercial use. But for some reason,
  119. 4:10people don't really like these cars on
  120. 4:11the used market. If we're talking about
  121. 4:13regional differences, then Hoval is
  122. 4:15incredibly popular in the regions.
  123. 4:17Really, really, really popular. Azhili
  124. 4:20is more of a big-city car. And on the
  125. 4:22used market, they're considered, well,
  126. 4:24like a Manjara. Like in Moscow, in St.
  127. 4:26Petersburg, it's much less common in
  128. 4:28the regions. So, we'll start with the
  129. 4:30fact that Hoval is more popular here
  130. 4:32than Chengan. And to understand the
  131. 4:35essence of this brand, we need to step
  132. 4:37back a bit. You have to understand that
  133. 4:39Hoval isn't an independent company. I
  134. 4:40mean, it didn't just pop up like, say,
  135. 4:43Ford, Mercedes, Opel, or AvtoVAZ. Hoval
  136. 4:46is simply a part of a larger company
  137. 4:49called Great Wall Motors or Great Wall
  138. 4:52Motor. Buy it on AliExpress. In short,
  139. 4:55Great Wall Motors. Motor. What I really
  140. 4:58, really like is that, well, in
  141. 4:59Traditional Chinese the company name is
  142. 5:02written like this, and in Simplified
  143. 5:04Chinese it's written like this. Just in
  144. 5:06case, I don't see any difference either
  145. 5:07. It's like, these are hieroglyphs,
  146. 5:09these are hieroglyphs, but for some
  147. 5:11reason these hieroglyphs are more
  148. 5:12complicated than these hieroglyphs.
  149. 5:20Yeah, Dan, are
  150. 5:21>> you ready yet?
  151. 5:22>> Not yet.
  152. 5:23>> And don't forget to give the guys the
  153. 5:24audio after recording. You have two new
  154. 5:26flash drives there. You need to give me
  155. 5:28the one with one written on it. Just
  156. 5:30don't mix them up and don't forget.
  157. 5:32>> No problem.
  158. 5:33>> Thanks. Bye.
  159. 5:34>> Yeah. Okay.
  160. 5:40>> Khoval. Okay, so, hi everyone. Today we
  161. 5:44have the long-awaited video on the
  162. 5:46topic of "bye everyone." Okay, I
  163. 5:55remember the sound about the two flash
  164. 5:59drives, but which one specifically I
  165. 6:02needed to get. Okay, I'll take a look
  166. 6:05now. By the way, you can also look at
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  179. 6:31conversation with key agreements. Oh, I
  180. 6:32found it. I should have given up the
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  186. 6:42in the description. In short, Great
  187. 6:47Wall Motor, aka GWM, aka GVM, and they
  188. 6:49are the same company that has
  189. 6:51captivated us all for 20 years now, and
  190. 6:54we will definitely all drive them.
  191. 6:56Their success so far has been mixed,
  192. 6:58but still. The company originally
  193. 7:00started as a small cooperative
  194. 7:02repairing agricultural machinery, back
  195. 7:05in the 1970s, in China. It wasn't
  196. 7:07exactly a large-scale production
  197. 7:09facility; it was more like a hangar
  198. 7:10where they repaired, well, agricultural
  199. 7:12machinery. A few years later, the guys
  200. 7:15took on a contract to assemble the
  201. 7:17Beijing PJ212. This particular car is a
  202. 7:21Chinese knockoff of a Soviet GAZ-69. It
  203. 7:25has a 451-liter engine, and the
  204. 7:27suspension is also from a 451-liter
  205. 7:29engine. And then, in some unspecified
  206. 7:31quantities, it was assembled in China.
  207. 7:33There's no exact data. But in any case,
  208. 7:35these guys were simply modifying Soviet
  209. 7:37cars. They tried to make crossovers and
  210. 7:40some regular civilian vehicles on the
  211. 7:43GAZ-69 chassis. For example, there's
  212. 7:45something called the CC6490. That, by
  213. 7:50the way, was based on the GAZ-69. And
  214. 7:52they were making things like this until
  215. 7:53about the 1990s. And then, naturally,
  216. 7:55they started assembling cars similar to
  217. 7:58Japanese ones. Because the Japanese
  218. 7:59were tearing the world apart with their
  219. 8:01cars back then. They were actively
  220. 8:02conquering the entire planet. And so
  221. 8:05they tried to build some cars based on
  222. 8:07older cars, while others were also
  223. 8:09their creations based on Japanese cars.
  224. 8:11Well, like this CC 6470. Naturally, you
  225. 8:14have to understand that all this was a
  226. 8:16semi-artisanal production without any
  227. 8:18large production runs. And back then,
  228. 8:20this was a commonplace in the Chinese
  229. 8:22auto industry, because, well, no one
  230. 8:23had large production runs in China in
  231. 8:25general to begin with. But Great Wall
  232. 8:27—especially, because you have to
  233. 8:29understand that all the cars from that
  234. 8:31era were utter crap that simply didn't
  235. 8:33survive into the modern world, because
  236. 8:35they were all made of very low-quality
  237. 8:37metal, with archaic designs, and it's
  238. 8:39unclear how they were assembled, and
  239. 8:41it's unclear how they even drove. And
  240. 8:44then there are cars that are simply
  241. 8:45cheap, simply inferior, but at the same
  242. 8:47time, that balance between cheap and
  243. 8:49poor performance is, well, still at
  244. 8:50some more or less acceptable point, and
  245. 8:52people buy them. And then there are
  246. 8:55cars that are cheap, but completely
  247. 8:56crap. That was the great stuff of the
  248. 8:591990s. But then again, you have to
  249. 9:01understand what China was like back
  250. 9:03then, because it wasn't like ours now,
  251. 9:04the world's number one economy, the
  252. 9:05most developed cities on the planet,
  253. 9:07blah-blah-blah. No, no, no. It's you, a
  254. 9:10big crowd of Chinese, sitting in
  255. 9:12and poverty in a rice field, and the
  256. 9:14whole country is working tirelessly to
  257. 9:16somehow pull itself out of the abyss.
  258. 9:19So, it's clear that these trendy
  259. 9:21crossovers—even from Greatwall—were
  260. 9:23of no use to anyone, even though they
  261. 9:25were initially intended with a certain
  262. 9:27flair, like they were a bit
  263. 9:28Rolls-Royce-esque: we'll even add some
  264. 9:30options, do something else—who cares.
  265. 9:33And so, somewhere around the 1990s,
  266. 9:35Great Wall looked at where it was. He
  267. 9:39thought about it, pondered it, and was
  268. 9:41like, "Let's screw a pickup truck, take
  269. 9:43a Highux, disassemble it, see how those
  270. 9:45slant-eyed guys did it, and with our
  271. 9:47slant-eyed savants, we'll do roughly
  272. 9:49the same thing, but something of our
  273. 9:51own." And that's how "wall de"(meaning
  274. 9:54"deer") came to be. Yeah, they couldn't
  275. 9:57find a decent translator, apparently. I
  276. 9:59don't know, Deer. There you go. And the
  277. 10:01"deer" thing starts selling out. It's
  278. 10:03starting to become popular in China.
  279. 10:06Plus, the Deer was, in fact, the first
  280. 10:08Gytwoll vehicle exported abroad. Where
  281. 10:10were they exporting pickups,
  282. 10:12>> right? The Middle East, China, right?
  283. 10:14And, in short, within a few years, YL
  284. 10:16became the leading pickup truck
  285. 10:18manufacturer in China. The Deer, by the
  286. 10:20way, was even officially supplied to us
  287. 10:22around the 2000s. They brought
  288. 10:24something there around 2004, also our
  289. 10:26Russian Deer. And then, using roughly
  290. 10:28the same Makar, well,
  291. 10:29reverse-engineered from Japanese cars,
  292. 10:32they gave birth to this Great Wover.
  293. 10:34And they literally assembled it simply
  294. 10:36from what was available. They took the
  295. 10:38chassis of an Isuzu MU, the body of an
  296. 10:40Isuzu Axum, a licensed Mitsubishi
  297. 10:42engine, and just whatever else they had
  298. 10:44. They simply took it and put it
  299. 10:47together, naturally, with Chinese
  300. 10:48materials. And so it turned out to be
  301. 10:51really cheap again, but not so bad that
  302. 10:52it was complete crap, just a little
  303. 10:54closer. But there was a problem:
  304. 10:57Hytwall's main brand, I mean, it first
  305. 10:59gained popularity on pickup trucks, and
  306. 11:01here we have, well, a regular crossover
  307. 11:03with a monocoque body. And so, somehow,
  308. 11:06everyone was too shy, you know, or
  309. 11:07buying a crossover that has a pickup
  310. 11:09brand attached to it. So, at first,
  311. 11:11they started calling all the crossovers
  312. 11:13"hovers" within the company. Well, just
  313. 11:14to differentiate it a little, that it's
  314. 11:16not a pickup truck, it's a Hover. And
  315. 11:18then Hover was spun off into a separate
  316. 11:20brand and in 2010 it was renamed Havl.
  317. 11:23Accordingly, Havl is a subbrand of a
  318. 11:25larger company that produces
  319. 11:27body-on-frame crossovers. And the
  320. 11:29larger company is GR Wall Motor. Hovl
  321. 11:32first saw significant production in
  322. 11:352009-2010. This was already the time
  323. 11:37when it was renamed from Hover to Haval
  324. 11:39. And then they sold 126,000 cars.
  325. 11:42That's, well, not a huge number for 41
  326. 11:44years of operation. I mean, per year.
  327. 11:47>> So, they existed for 41 years and
  328. 11:49finally managed to produce 126,000 cars
  329. 11:51, yes. But then they would experience
  330. 11:53rapid growth, like all Chinese
  331. 11:55companies. In 2011, they released the
  332. 11:57Haval H6. It's a frameless crossover.
  333. 12:01And so, essentially, the brand's main
  334. 12:03gimmick is built around this: that
  335. 12:05these are crossovers, they're frameless
  336. 12:06, and at the same time they're not
  337. 12:08exactly budget-friendly, that you still
  338. 12:10have a hint of sheep there, but at a
  339. 12:12budget price. And the A6 becomes very
  340. 12:15successful. In 2016, it sold a million
  341. 12:19units. I mean, in 2016, the Hover A6
  342. 12:23alone sold a million units. That's a
  343. 12:26lot. Few models in the world can
  344. 12:29produce that much.
  345. 12:30>> And that's just for the Chinese market
  346. 12:32alone, a million
  347. 12:33>> in total. Well, it's not like the Hover
  348. 12:366 had a huge following, but the bulk of
  349. 12:38the sales were still in China, of
  350. 12:40course, but then it spread to South
  351. 12:42Asia, and to the Middle East, and some
  352. 12:44of them came to us too. Well, whatever.
  353. 12:46The most important thing is that this
  354. 12:47car was the original birthplace of the
  355. 12:49entire brand. Now this story reminds me
  356. 12:51of when you were sitting in a village
  357. 12:53toilet, and there's this somewhere
  358. 12:55, it's getting closer and closer and
  359. 12:57closer. And then you're driving it.
  360. 13:00>> No, no, it's actually modern, well, not
  361. 13:02completely bad, but the Chinese cars of
  362. 13:04the 2000s, especially the Hover of the
  363. 13:062000s, well, they were complete and
  364. 13:08utter crap. It's better now. Literally
  365. 13:12before the A6 took off, the brand made
  366. 13:15a strategic decision: it needed to
  367. 13:17expand globally. It needed to expand
  368. 13:20globally somehow, because, well, in
  369. 13:22China, yes, of course, we have a market
  370. 13:24there, we can develop there, but we,
  371. 13:26like any other self-respecting car
  372. 13:28company, absolutely must have sales
  373. 13:30everywhere. And there's actually some
  374. 13:32logic to this, because if you're a
  375. 13:34budget carmaker making cars in the
  376. 13:35budget segment, you'll definitely need
  377. 13:37to think about factories for other
  378. 13:39countries. You need to think about
  379. 13:41localizing production within your
  380. 13:43country, because otherwise, you'll have
  381. 13:44a logistical burden, and customs will
  382. 13:46eat up all your margins. You simply
  383. 13:48won't be able to compete with local
  384. 13:50carmakers simply because your car will
  385. 13:51be too expensive just in terms of
  386. 13:53shipping and customs. And to be fair,
  387. 13:55the authorities decided this not only
  388. 13:57with the Hova brand; they also came up
  389. 13:58with the Way brand, which is supposedly
  390. 14:00premium. Here's Vй Coffee, just in
  391. 14:02case you didn't know, the Chinese think
  392. 14:04it's premium. That's the kind of car it
  393. 14:06is. They also have the ORA brand. Not
  394. 14:07Khval, but Great Wall Motor in general.
  395. 14:10And the ORA brand is responsible for
  396. 14:11electric trains. It's already a modern
  397. 14:13division. A tank, uh, with its premium
  398. 14:15off-road version and this thing that's
  399. 14:16almost like a Land Cruiser. And,
  400. 14:18accordingly, the main parent brand is
  401. 14:19Great Wall Motors Pickup. These guys
  402. 14:21came to Russia back in 2014. They came
  403. 14:23as Great Wall. Well, I mean, a
  404. 14:25subsidiary of JVM Great Wall Motor Rus
  405. 14:27opened, this company. And that same
  406. 14:29year, Khval appeared at the Moscow Auto
  407. 14:31Show. Back then, the tradition of auto
  408. 14:33shows was still alive: we'd gather in a
  409. 14:36big crowd, look at cars, show this,
  410. 14:39show that, and all that. And in 2015,
  411. 14:41the first official dealership opened,
  412. 14:44so you could go and buy a Khoval from
  413. 14:46us—well, the ninth, this one. The
  414. 14:48guys are proud that by 2017, we'd
  415. 14:50already managed to open ten car
  416. 14:52dealerships. But in reality, at that
  417. 14:55point in 2017, there were 3,500
  418. 14:57dealerships in our country. So, ten is,
  419. 15:00well, very strange niche places, let's
  420. 15:03say. But the most important thing is
  421. 15:05that, uh, from a business standpoint,
  422. 15:07for some reason, these guys decided to
  423. 15:09jump into the abyss. Take 2017. The
  424. 15:15brand at that time was selling only
  425. 15:171,800 cars a year. Not per month, but,
  426. 15:21well, 1,800 per year. That's somewhere
  427. 15:23around, well, God willing, three cars
  428. 15:24per country per day, like five cars per
  429. 15:26country per day somewhere. That's the
  430. 15:27approximate pace. In 2018, the guys had
  431. 15:30a crazy volume of 3,200 cars, which is
  432. 15:34also more or less nothing. And they're
  433. 15:37like, "We need to bang the plant, we
  434. 15:39need to launch a really big production
  435. 15:40facility, we need to pour money
  436. 15:42into it, essentially, into Russia
  437. 15:43without any guarantee that everything
  438. 15:45will be fine, that everything will be
  439. 15:46alright." We don't have a sales market.
  440. 15:49People don't like us here, people don't
  441. 15:51respect us here, we don't have a normal
  442. 15:53audience, we don't have people who
  443. 15:54would, you know, buy our cars for
  444. 15:56generations, like with Toyota, for
  445. 15:58example, or Mercedes. We see this in
  446. 16:00our reports. We've been here in the
  447. 16:01country for far from our first year.
  448. 16:02We've been trying to sell our cars for
  449. 16:04four years now. And it's no
  450. 16:07good. So let's bang the plant. At the
  451. 16:09time, in 2018, it seemed crazy. Well, I
  452. 16:12mean, downright crazy. I even remember
  453. 16:13the news headlines when, in 1919, the
  454. 16:15news broke that, like, that's it, the
  455. 16:17Potula plant was opening and would
  456. 16:18gradually start collecting praise. I'm
  457. 16:20like, "Well, seriously, guys, this is a
  458. 16:21really weird thing you're doing,
  459. 16:23because how are you going to compete
  460. 16:24with Volkswagen? How are you going to
  461. 16:26compete with Hyundai? How are you going
  462. 16:28to compete with Mazda, with Toyota, and
  463. 16:29with everyone else? Who's been here
  464. 16:32with the factories for a long time,
  465. 16:33who's been here with the target
  466. 16:35audience for a long time, who already
  467. 16:36has, like, a cozy, comfortable place,
  468. 16:38and they've been gnawing away at this
  469. 16:39place for 20 years, and these guys came
  470. 16:41, essentially, haven't even sold
  471. 16:42anything, well, like, probably haven't
  472. 16:44recouped some operating costs, and
  473. 16:45they're like," Let's bang the plant. "I
  474. 16:51often talk about Autoteka's reports
  475. 16:53here, and we almost missed the fact
  476. 16:55that the service turned 10 years old
  477. 16:56this month. If it was able to survive
  478. 16:59all the upheavals that have happened
  479. 17:00during this time, it can only mean how
  480. 17:02valuable and in demand the product is.
  481. 17:05Autoteka has grown and accumulated in
  482. 17:07its product both data on cars and
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  508. 18:02>> Well, actually, it's really strange,
  509. 18:04because it feels like, essentially, if
  510. 18:06you do something If you're doing
  511. 18:07something, you might just be doing
  512. 18:09something full-time at some point. It's
  513. 18:12possible that something will happen
  514. 18:14where you'll be in the lead, because,
  515. 18:16well, if all the brands hadn't left,
  516. 18:18who would need Hoval?
  517. 18:20>> Well, they probably would have
  518. 18:22eventually won back some market share
  519. 18:24anyway, because they had momentum. But
  520. 18:26the problem is that with the momentum
  521. 18:28they had, they wouldn't have even
  522. 18:29recouped the investment in the plant.
  523. 18:32And the other Chinese brands, the same
  524. 18:33Cherry that we've had all along, the
  525. 18:35same one, and all these other guys,
  526. 18:37well, they seemed to have a very
  527. 18:39sensible view of the PNL, which didn't
  528. 18:41match up at all under any forecasts.
  529. 18:44And, well, to go and invest a huge
  530. 18:46amount of money in a country with which
  531. 18:48you essentially don't have a business
  532. 18:50relationship, well, that's a really
  533. 18:52risky move. Now the Hoval plant
  534. 18:54assembles 3,000 cars per year,
  535. 18:56approximately 10 days. In 1918, that
  536. 18:59was the annual sales volume, and now
  537. 19:01they only assemble that many cars in 10
  538. 19:03days. And, well, they weren't the only
  539. 19:05assembly site they had. They also set
  540. 19:07up one in Kaliningrad, but they don't
  541. 19:09own it there. They just made an
  542. 19:10agreement with the plant and are just
  543. 19:12assembling cars there. But that's wow.
  544. 19:14So, again, to put it into perspective,
  545. 19:17Cherry officially sold 157,000 cars in
  546. 19:202024. And only now, in '26, they're
  547. 19:22like," Okay, we'll assemble a ten-piece
  548. 19:25. "And that's through contract assembly
  549. 19:28, and that's without any serious
  550. 19:29investment, without, well, a completely
  551. 19:31different approach.
  552. 19:32>> So, essentially, they're just setting
  553. 19:34up a nominal assembly line here,
  554. 19:36>> and they're not investing a lot of
  555. 19:38money. And they were completely broke
  556. 19:40back then, and they just went and hid a
  557. 19:42shitload of money for some reason. But
  558. 19:44even before the war, in '20, They're
  559. 19:47already selling 17,000 cars. In '21,
  560. 19:49they're selling 34,000 cars. By this
  561. 19:53point, their local favorite is starting
  562. 19:54to emerge, with Zhulion managing to eat
  563. 19:56away at everyone else's market share.
  564. 19:58Well, when the war actually starts in
  565. 20:00'22, all the brands leave, and Hoval is
  566. 20:02perfectly established, because, well,
  567. 20:04you already have a factory inside, no
  568. 20:05one's stopping you from working, you
  569. 20:07just have a naked market, you just go
  570. 20:09and whitewash people. In '25, a
  571. 20:11full-cycle assembly site opens in
  572. 20:13Kaluga. In September of this year,
  573. 20:15assembly began at the Kaliningrad
  574. 20:17Avtotor. At the moment, we're
  575. 20:18assembling eight cars. These are the M6
  576. 20:22Jon or DG, it's not clear what to call
  577. 20:24it. F7, F7X, H3, H7, and H9. And in '25
  578. 20:29, Hoval is, well, the top-two
  579. 20:31manufacturer in sales after AvtoVAZ.
  580. 20:33It's the most successful company after
  581. 20:35AvtoVAZ. Well, in our country, it's
  582. 20:37just AvtoVAZ should always be left out
  583. 20:38of the equation. And here we have Hoval
  584. 20:40, essentially the market leader.
  585. 20:42>> And why isn't AvtoVAZ a profitable
  586. 20:43company, while Hoval is? Oh, and Hoval
  587. 20:46is profitable. That's a
  588. 20:48>> good question. You can't even imagine
  589. 20:50how profitable Hoval is.
  590. 20:51>> No, I can imagine it, because I can
  591. 20:53imagine, well, it's amazing.
  592. 20:55Well, I mean, I'm envious of how
  593. 20:57profitable it is.
  594. 20:58>> I have the numbers. In 2025, I wrote
  595. 21:02everything down, I have it all here.
  596. 21:06There were quite a few articles about
  597. 21:08Hoval earning between 4,000 and 5,000
  598. 21:09dollars on each car in our country. It
  599. 21:12seems like, well, it's obvious that,
  600. 21:14well, it's clear that automakers make
  601. 21:16money on a car, like, everything is
  602. 21:17great, but to just make 5,000 bucks per
  603. 21:19car on a budget car, well, that's crazy
  604. 21:21. It's like there's no precedent for
  605. 21:23this in the world. Because even when we
  606. 21:26were discussing it around the pandemic
  607. 21:28and in Around '22, the Germans had this
  608. 21:30strategy: you know, we're BMW or
  609. 21:32Mercedes, and it's hard for us to
  610. 21:34produce our own cars because first we
  611. 21:36have the pandemic, then the container
  612. 21:38crisis, and now because of the war, and
  613. 21:40all the sanctions, and energy—I don't
  614. 21:42understand a damn thing. But we have to
  615. 21:46make money, we have to make money.
  616. 21:47We're BMW, we're Mercedes, we can kind
  617. 21:49of make a lot of money from our
  618. 21:51audience because we're a premium brand
  619. 21:52and people love us. So, if anything,
  620. 21:55we'll just sell our cars at twice the
  621. 21:56price, and you'll still buy them.
  622. 21:58Remember, we've discussed this many
  623. 21:59times. Back then, BMW was making $
  624. 22:025,000 per car. BMW, damn.
  625. 22:04>> And BMW back then, it was like, what's
  626. 22:06this,
  627. 22:06>> yeah, they made a lot of money. He was
  628. 22:08around,
  629. 22:09>> starting in '22. Quietly, quietly. And
  630. 22:11really quietly. And I mean, how do I
  631. 22:14understand it when you're making $
  632. 22:155,000 per car that you, let's say, $
  633. 22:1760,000. Well, in the case of BMW, it's
  634. 22:19either $ 80,000 or $ 100,000, it's like
  635. 22:20, well, that's understandable. And with
  636. 22:23Julian,, what are you talking
  637. 22:25about, like, for God's sake, yeah. Well
  638. 22:28,
  639. 22:28>> how much, like, how many thousand
  640. 22:30dollars is that on average, if they
  641. 22:32earn, like, five? From the selling
  642. 22:34price of the Khovala,
  643. 22:35>> 20%is what they earn in the car
  644. 22:36business—that's. Come on,
  645. 22:38that's a lot. The top management of car
  646. 22:41companies can already bathe in a bath
  647. 22:42and champagne when your profitability
  648. 22:44is, like, 10-11%. But if you provide
  649. 22:46for this business, everything, like, is
  650. 22:48fine. I think that in our country, well
  651. 22:50, like, people who made the decision
  652. 22:52and invested in the Khovala plant in
  653. 22:53Tula, they can bathe their entire
  654. 22:55family in champagne for the rest of
  655. 22:56their lives and generally not deny
  656. 22:58themselves, well, like, anything,
  657. 22:59Definitely. Because from a business
  658. 23:02perspective, it's, well, what a
  659. 23:03cool project it turned out to be. But
  660. 23:05it was very risky from the start. And
  661. 23:07the current dividends are precisely the
  662. 23:09price for that risk. So, if AvtoVAZ is
  663. 23:12top-1 on the Russian market, and hoval
  664. 23:14was top-10, then why the is
  665. 23:16AvtoVAZ constantly
  666. 23:19>> begging somewhere? It's specifically
  667. 23:22begging from our pockets. This seems
  668. 23:23like a normal topic. Well, the question
  669. 23:26,
  670. 23:26>> of course, is one that's being asked
  671. 23:27with holes in its jeans.
  672. 23:28>> It's a complex, long, and painful one.
  673. 23:29And as usual, you'll then come to the
  674. 23:31conclusion that no one is to blame and
  675. 23:32everyone is to blame at the same time,
  676. 23:34starting with the traditions instilled
  677. 23:35in the plant. But that's a very long
  678. 23:37conversation. One day we'll have it.
  679. 23:43The most important thing, in my opinion
  680. 23:46, is that if we can somehow talk about
  681. 23:48all the other low-cost Chinese
  682. 23:49companies, you know, well, if we put on
  683. 23:52big rose-colored glasses and decide
  684. 23:54that right tomorrow they'll suddenly
  685. 23:56come and The Koreans, the Czechs, the
  686. 23:58Germans, and everyone else will come
  687. 24:00back and definitely crush everyone else
  688. 24:02—it'll be very difficult to dislodge
  689. 24:04Howal, simply because they already have
  690. 24:07a production base, and people already
  691. 24:09have a formed understanding of this
  692. 24:11brand. Hundreds of thousands of people
  693. 24:14have already driven these cars, and
  694. 24:16they are generally satisfied. And among
  695. 24:18the Chinese, this is definitely the
  696. 24:19most stable and successful budget
  697. 24:21Chinese brand in our country. They have
  698. 24:23their own assembly plants, they are
  699. 24:24growing year after year, and most
  700. 24:25importantly, they are simply making
  701. 24:27some absurd amount of money. It's clear
  702. 24:29that if they had real, full-fledged
  703. 24:30competition in this segment, they would
  704. 24:32have to fall like crazy, naturally. And
  705. 24:36perhaps at some point we would see cars
  706. 24:38getting cheaper, but at the moment we
  707. 24:40have what we have, because in fact,
  708. 24:41they now essentially have their own
  709. 24:43monopoly within their segment, because
  710. 24:45no other automaker with such a dense
  711. 24:47production base in There simply aren't
  712. 24:49any in their segments. And I'll repeat
  713. 24:53again that, sitting in 2018-2019, it
  714. 24:55was absolutely difficult to imagine
  715. 24:57that Hoval would ever, somehow, recoup
  716. 25:00the cost of its factory, but now
  717. 25:02everything is wonderful for the guys.
  718. 25:05To avoid repeating ourselves 10 times,
  719. 25:07let's go over the common problems of
  720. 25:09all Hovals from the start, so that
  721. 25:10later we don't say the same thing for
  722. 25:12each model, but because everyone in the
  723. 25:13entire model range has common problems.
  724. 25:16The first problem, which affects
  725. 25:18absolutely all Havals, is the
  726. 25:19multimedia. Absolutely. Why it
  727. 25:23exists is unclear, but it is there to,
  728. 25:25actually, sell cars, so that you have a
  729. 25:27screen in a budget car. But it's
  730. 25:29inconvenient to use. It constantly
  731. 25:31glitches. It has absolutely
  732. 25:33incomprehensible ergonomics. And there
  733. 25:34is not a single owner of this car who
  734. 25:36would be completely satisfied with this
  735. 25:38screen. They either don't use them, or
  736. 25:40they are completely burned out by it.
  737. 25:41That's it, there are no other options.
  738. 25:42It glitches in the cold, it It falls
  739. 25:44off, it's inconvenient, and this
  740. 25:45applies to absolutely all models. It
  741. 25:47doesn't matter whether you buy a
  742. 25:48cheaper car or a more expensive one. In
  743. 25:50any case, it will be inconvenient and
  744. 25:52buggy. The second issue, which applies
  745. 25:54to absolutely all cars, is the body
  746. 25:55paint. The zinc on all cars is fine,
  747. 25:57but the problem is that all our cars
  748. 25:59that are produced here are completely
  749. 26:01galvanized, except for the roof. And if
  750. 26:04you use the car on the highway, and
  751. 26:06it's completely normal, that edge near
  752. 26:07the upper windshield starts to chip.
  753. 26:10Well, simply because sand, stones, and
  754. 26:12all sorts of crap fly there. The paint
  755. 26:14itself is soft and falls off very
  756. 26:16easily. And if you chip your roof, it
  757. 26:18will rot. So then you have a collective
  758. 26:21farm. And exactly the same as the
  759. 26:23G-club. Everyone is trying to save
  760. 26:25their windshield frame, because if
  761. 26:27anything happens, it's constantly being
  762. 26:28sanded off by the car's aerodynamics.
  763. 26:30It peels off and starts to rot too.
  764. 26:32Even though you have an expensive, very
  765. 26:34, very expensive car, the windshield
  766. 26:36can still fall out at some point
  767. 26:37because everything will simply rot. So
  768. 26:39you need to think about what's wrong
  769. 26:40with the film. So you need to think
  770. 26:42about how to tighten it all with some
  771. 26:43kind of protective crap. It's the same
  772. 26:45with Hovals, but with the roof on
  773. 26:47absolutely all models. Also, almost all
  774. 26:49cars have problems with the tailgate.
  775. 26:52One way or another, some have more,
  776. 26:54some less, but water,, and
  777. 26:55branches, uh, fall behind the rear
  778. 26:57decorative element, which is located
  779. 26:59under your license plate. It looks
  780. 27:01different for everyone, but one way or
  781. 27:02another, and all this stuff gradually
  782. 27:04starts to rot there too. Otherwise, the
  783. 27:06cars seem to live. Even in, say, St.
  784. 27:08Petersburg, where the salt and road
  785. 27:10conditions are the most difficult.
  786. 27:11>> Don't look at me. So
  787. 27:13>> this sentence can be This sentence can
  788. 27:15be used in two ways In a sense, yes.
  789. 27:18Plus, you can find some paintwork flaws
  790. 27:20on almost all cars. Some debris under
  791. 27:23the clearcoat or debris on the paint
  792. 27:24itself, a hanging drop here and there,
  793. 27:26something missing somewhere. Well,
  794. 27:28everyone's luck varies. But basically,
  795. 27:30for the budget segment, it's normal.
  796. 27:31That is, cars turning to dust in, say,
  797. 27:33five years—well, that doesn't happen.
  798. 27:36Only if it's driven on the highway or,
  799. 27:38say, the car has been driven really
  800. 27:39hard, say, in St. Petersburg, hasn't
  801. 27:41been washed at all and is constantly
  802. 27:43driving in, salt, and so on,
  803. 27:44constantly scraping the bottom
  804. 27:46somewhere, damaging the sills, so that
  805. 27:48your anti-corrosion coating breaks and
  806. 27:49all that. And so it really can rot. But
  807. 27:52overall, it's normal for the budget
  808. 27:54class. And the last point, which
  809. 27:55absolutely all cars have, is an
  810. 27:56uncomfortable seating position. With my
  811. 27:58height, with my size in Khoval It's
  812. 28:00impossible to get comfortable. I just
  813. 28:02don't have enough adjustments. It's
  814. 28:03just not possible. The seat is very
  815. 28:05soft. The buttons are in the wrong
  816. 28:06place. You have to constantly reach the
  817. 28:08steering wheel, the pedals are too
  818. 28:08close. And somehow, in short, there are
  819. 28:12big questions with the ergonomics. It's
  820. 28:14a really big problem. I really hate
  821. 28:17Hoval for this, because your cushions
  822. 28:18are crazy. For
  823. 28:19>> example, in your Julian, the column
  824. 28:20can't be adjusted for reach at all, and
  825. 28:23you sit like, well,
  826. 28:24>> this is a budget class,
  827. 28:25>> like on a bus. This is a budget class
  828. 28:27and a lack of design experience,
  829. 28:28because, well, essentially, Cre is
  830. 28:30exactly the same budget class, but it's
  831. 28:32much more comfortable to sit there,
  832. 28:34because the guys had a little more
  833. 28:35experience in how to design a car and
  834. 28:37more feedback from people. Hoval,
  835. 28:39despite the fact that it walks around
  836. 28:41and boasts about its Lemon platform,
  837. 28:42that, oh, we have, damn, everything is
  838. 28:44so new, oh, everything is so cool, and
  839. 28:45so on. Well, well, there is not a
  840. 28:47single Hoval where It's comfortable to
  841. 28:48sit in, except for the M6. The M6,
  842. 28:50surprisingly, turned out more or less.
  843. 28:53Not perfect, but much better than all
  844. 28:54the others. But basically, in the
  845. 28:56Julian, the F7X, and the Dargo, it's
  846. 28:58very uncomfortable to sit in.
  847. 29:00Especially the chubby steering wheel.
  848. 29:02They have these bulges. Uh, and you
  849. 29:04either need to hold on from above, well
  850. 29:05, and with the position that exists in
  851. 29:07the Khoval, you just have to sit down
  852. 29:09on the bun a little. Sorry, I caught
  853. 29:11the microphone. What?
  854. 29:12>> Sexy is still too sexy. They should
  855. 29:14have
  856. 29:14>> hammered all this in, just like that,
  857. 29:16>> on the armrest. And so you're driving
  858. 29:18like this, your right leg, well, will
  859. 29:20wither over time, and you don't give a
  860. 29:21damn about it anyway. And so you move
  861. 29:23around calmly. The secondary market for
  862. 29:29Khovals looks like this. The leader in
  863. 29:32offers is, naturally, the Zhuleon, aka
  864. 29:34Zhulya, aka Julien, aka A crook, aka
  865. 29:36June, aka, damn, it's all those Julians
  866. 29:38in the car-sharing business in the
  867. 29:40neighborhood. Next up, we have the F7
  868. 29:42and F7X, who think they're like the BMW
  869. 29:45X5 and X6. Almost as cool as the guys.
  870. 29:47That's it. Yeah, but on the used market
  871. 29:49, they're almost as popular as Julien.
  872. 29:55We recently reviewed it, and it's like
  873. 29:56a really big Largus from Haval, and
  874. 29:57overall, it's a more or less good car.
  875. 30:01And the Dargo, the Dargo. This is the
  876. 30:04car whose appearance I haven't been
  877. 30:05able to accept since 2020, when it was
  878. 30:07shown at some Chinese auto show. Here,
  879. 30:10it's called the Darga, but in China,
  880. 30:12it's called the Big Dog. Big dog.
  881. 30:16That's it.
  882. 30:20>> And I think this name suits it better,
  883. 30:22because it's a dog. Well, it somehow
  884. 30:24resembles a dog, well, more or less,
  885. 30:25yeah. And let's start with the dog. The
  886. 30:28car appeared in our country in 2022, as
  887. 30:30they say. Guess why.
  888. 30:31>> Echoes of war.
  889. 30:35>> In 25, the Restyling appeared. It is,
  890. 30:37in essence, no different from the
  891. 30:38Dorist. It has the same technology.
  892. 30:40They just, well, washed the dog. Here,
  893. 30:43they changed it a little. Elements. It
  894. 30:46seems to have become more beautiful, in
  895. 30:47my opinion, not so much. The car is
  896. 30:49strictly a two-liter, 192 horsepower,
  897. 30:51all-wheel drive and an ugly appearance.
  898. 30:53That's it, we don't have any other trim
  899. 30:54levels. It is positioned as an SUV.
  900. 30:57Like an SUV, but, you know, it is still
  901. 31:00a crossover. And, like, you can go
  902. 31:03off-road. Well, purely in terms of
  903. 31:05style, but not too much. No, you don't
  904. 31:07need, if anything, to go off-road. But
  905. 31:09you all definitely need to be told that
  906. 31:11it is very passable. Our plastic is so
  907. 31:13good you can rub it. Everything is
  908. 31:15generally fine with it. But no, it's
  909. 31:17just a regular crossover with a clutch,
  910. 31:19a robotic gearbox and some serious
  911. 31:21Off-road. It's best not to push it. On
  912. 31:24the used market, it costs between two
  913. 31:26and three. In our experience, a decent
  914. 31:28car starts somewhere around 2.4 million
  915. 31:30rubles. And this two-liter engine is
  916. 31:33called the GW4N20. It's an aluminum
  917. 31:37block. And it has a turbocharger with a
  918. 31:39wastegate. We have a chain, direct
  919. 31:42injection, phase regulators, and
  920. 31:44generally, well, the engine's
  921. 31:45technology package. Everything is like
  922. 31:48the big guys, everything is like the
  923. 31:49Germans, everything is like the
  924. 31:50Europeans. Yes, everything would
  925. 31:53actually be fine if they didn't try to
  926. 31:54put this complex engine in a cheap car.
  927. 31:58Because when you take an engine packed
  928. 32:00with all the latest technology and give
  929. 32:02it to people who really want to fill it
  930. 32:04with octane 92, and there's no other
  931. 32:05choice but to fill it with octane 92,
  932. 32:07you'll end up with what actually
  933. 32:09happened with the Dargo in the first
  934. 32:10years of production. Your third
  935. 32:13cylinder would collapse. in the engine
  936. 32:15and it was just tearing itself apart.
  937. 32:16And in general, if anything, the whole
  938. 32:18engine was tearing apart. And so, well,
  939. 32:19most likely because of the fuel,
  940. 32:21because you have direct injection, you
  941. 32:23get carbon deposits with bad fuel. It
  942. 32:25forms in general, and with normal fuel,
  943. 32:26too. But just not in such quantities.
  944. 32:29And if you fed the car crap from the
  945. 32:30start, the engine could have been
  946. 32:32thrown in the trash. In 24, Khoval
  947. 32:34finally said:" Okay, we get it, we
  948. 32:36changed the fuel map after all. It
  949. 32:38seems like now the engine chews up this
  950. 32:40second gasoline. But why do you need a
  951. 32:43complex turbo engine in a cheap car,
  952. 32:44frankly, I don't understand. Because
  953. 32:47you'll still have high fuel consumption
  954. 32:48, especially with, well, high-quality
  955. 32:50fuel, like 95, 98, and so on. And when
  956. 32:53you cram a two-liter turbo engine into
  957. 32:54a fairly large all-wheel drive car,
  958. 32:56well, you're going to have high fuel
  959. 32:57consumption anyway. In any case. It
  960. 33:00doesn't need any kind of performance.
  961. 33:02It's a dog. That's it. Well, why it
  962. 33:04needs high performance is unclear. And
  963. 33:06then there's the problem of used cars.
  964. 33:08If we're talking about you actually
  965. 33:09wanting to buy a used car, how will you
  966. 33:11figure out what kind of fuel was put in
  967. 33:13it? Yes, naturally, based on the
  968. 33:15condition of the engine. Yes, naturally
  969. 33:17, you'll go in there, check everything
  970. 33:18endoscope-wise, look, shake and wonder,
  971. 33:20and so on. Will your fuel system still
  972. 33:22be damaged? And then, when you use this
  973. 33:25car, you'll also monitor it as, well,
  974. 33:27something technically complex, because
  975. 33:28the engine really is technically
  976. 33:30complex. And indeed, if something
  977. 33:33suddenly goes wrong, you'll get
  978. 33:34detonation, you'll get carbon deposits,
  979. 33:36you'll get a shitty head, you'll get
  980. 33:37the whole environment filthy. All of
  981. 33:40this could be present. Something that,
  982. 33:42say, a Duster would never have under
  983. 33:44any circumstances. Or a Creta, for
  984. 33:46example. Well, the Creta's catalytic
  985. 33:47converter would break, which could also
  986. 33:49lead to engine failure, but overall,
  987. 33:50the engine there is much simpler. They
  988. 33:52managed to do the same thing in the
  989. 33:54Dargo, just from the other side. The
  990. 33:55engine also ends up being jerky, so you
  991. 33:57also need to worry about it. And on top
  992. 34:00of that, they also attached a wonderful
  993. 34:02gearbox to it, called the 7T450 or
  994. 34:06GW7DT1. They're the same gearbox, by
  995. 34:09the way. It's a dual-clutch robot, a
  996. 34:11wet dual-clutch system, made by HY.
  997. 34:14It's like a subsidiary of General
  998. 34:16Motors. And so they put a dual-clutch
  999. 34:21robot in a car they market as a light
  1000. 34:24SUV. Well, there simply isn't another
  1001. 34:26option. Or I don't know why. So, they
  1002. 34:29decided that, well, here's a robot, it
  1003. 34:30fits practically the entire model range
  1004. 34:31, by the way. And overall, the
  1005. 34:33automatic transmission itself is fine.
  1006. 34:34It's kind of, well, slow, like all
  1007. 34:35Chinese automatic transmissions. It
  1008. 34:37doesn't even seem to fall apart. There
  1009. 34:38have been cases where the mechatronics
  1010. 34:40system screwed up, but that's an
  1011. 34:41isolated incident. The standard
  1012. 34:42transmission is still going strong.
  1013. 34:43It's slow and steady. But honestly, I
  1014. 34:46don't understand why it's needed there
  1015. 34:48when we're talking about a large, heavy
  1016. 34:49vehicle that people try to use on dirt
  1017. 34:51roads every now and then. I understand,
  1018. 34:53like the dual-clutch automatic
  1019. 34:55transmission in the Tiguan. I
  1020. 34:56understand that, because the car is
  1021. 34:58controlled, and it's supposed to be an
  1022. 35:00urban crossover, marketed as an urban
  1023. 35:02crossover, a car that's strictly for
  1024. 35:03city driving. When you have a boxy
  1025. 35:06thing like this with a automatic
  1026. 35:07transmission, it's two different things
  1027. 35:09, you shouldn't mix them. But you can
  1028. 35:12buy a used car, and the transmission
  1029. 35:14won't blow your mind. The suspension on
  1030. 35:16all Havals is crap, including the
  1031. 35:17Havals in particular. MacPherson struts
  1032. 35:19up front and a multi-link rear. There
  1033. 35:21aren't any major issues unless you
  1034. 35:23drive fast on dirt roads, because if
  1035. 35:25you drive these cars fast on crappy
  1036. 35:27roads, things start to go wrong: the
  1037. 35:29front shock absorbers fall apart, the
  1038. 35:31tie rod ends fall apart, the stabilizer
  1039. 35:33links, the bushings in the rear
  1040. 35:35suspension start to tear, and the whole
  1041. 35:37thing just falls apart. If you drive
  1042. 35:40around town and don't overload the car
  1043. 35:42and fly over speed bumps, then
  1044. 35:43everything is generally fine. As for
  1045. 35:45the suspension, well, it's a standard
  1046. 35:47car that doesn't handle like,
  1047. 35:48really. Oh, and it seems like you have
  1048. 35:50a multi-link rear suspension, so you're
  1049. 35:52supposed to be driving somewhere,
  1050. 35:54pushing your ass against it, and so on,
  1051. 35:55but no, the Haval isn't very good at
  1052. 35:57driving.
  1053. 35:58>> So, we're buying a crossover, as Khoval
  1054. 36:01assures us, with increased
  1055. 36:02cross-country ability,
  1056. 36:05>> which should never be driven off-road.
  1057. 36:09You should never drive over speed bumps
  1058. 36:11quickly or carefully and slowly on
  1059. 36:13bumps, just like
  1060. 36:14>> with any other body-on-frame crossover,
  1061. 36:16with a turbocharged engine, a robotic
  1062. 36:18transmission, a clutch, and a
  1063. 36:19conventional multi-link rear suspension
  1064. 36:20.
  1065. 36:21>> Cool. Why the hell do you need a
  1066. 36:23crossover then? Why?
  1067. 36:25>> Well, that's it. Well, that's it.
  1068. 36:27People don't really worry about the
  1069. 36:28suspension or the components. They just
  1070. 36:30buy the car and use it. And let's say
  1071. 36:33the Tank 300, which you and I filmed at
  1072. 36:35the proving ground, that's a real SUV,
  1073. 36:37with off-road components, with an
  1074. 36:39off-road design that you can actually,
  1075. 36:41like, drive into a field and everyone
  1076. 36:43will love it. Expensive dog,, dog
  1077. 36:47, no need to do that. He's a purebred,
  1078. 36:50we have to be careful with him in the
  1079. 36:51city, but at the same time, he tells
  1080. 36:53everyone that he's done.
  1081. 36:56>> You know, like a purebred dog, which
  1082. 36:57used to be used for hunting, but now
  1083. 36:59they can only hunt the couch.
  1084. 37:01>> Corgis?
  1085. 37:02>> No, corgis are shepherds.
  1086. 37:04>> We're against bestiality. It's just,
  1087. 37:07well, Nikitos is reminding us of his
  1088. 37:08values. It's just that you suddenly
  1089. 37:11forgot, suddenly, suddenly someone
  1090. 37:12forgot.
  1091. 37:13>> Well, there's a difference in price,
  1092. 37:15probably the tank is expensive.
  1093. 37:16>> Yeah, yeah, yeah. A tank is more
  1094. 37:18expensive, of course. Well, you're like
  1095. 37:19, "And they
  1096. 37:20>> praise the tank,
  1097. 37:21>> right?" A tank is a perfectly fine
  1098. 37:23machine.
  1099. 37:23>> But the hoval is crap. It's Niktos
  1100. 37:25reminding us of his breakfast.
  1101. 37:29>> And overall, you can't really say
  1102. 37:30anything else about him. Well, I guess
  1103. 37:32another peculiarity is that, besides
  1104. 37:35the windshield frame rotting at the top
  1105. 37:37, the rear window frame at the bottom
  1106. 37:39can also rot because there's a rubber
  1107. 37:41seal there, water and crap accumulate
  1108. 37:44there, and so on. The fifth door on
  1109. 37:46this car can also rot, for example. But
  1110. 37:48the main thing is that I don't really
  1111. 37:50understand why it's needed, especially
  1112. 37:52in Russia, because ultimately, it's a
  1113. 37:53very specific car. You can't use it as
  1114. 37:56an SUV, just as a unit. You can't use
  1115. 37:58it in harsh conditions, where the gas
  1116. 37:59is crappy, where the roads are crappy,
  1117. 38:01and so on. It won't handle it anyway
  1118. 38:03and will eventually fall apart. So, for
  1119. 38:06really bad roads and life in the region
  1120. 38:08, I would buy a Duster, which costs the
  1121. 38:10same. And it's definitely a car that's
  1122. 38:13prepared for more severe tests. And
  1123. 38:15it's been tested for a long time, and
  1124. 38:17it can be serviced anywhere, and it
  1125. 38:19will definitely be cheaper for you
  1126. 38:20overall, much cheaper. And even if you
  1127. 38:23really want a Haval, it's still not the
  1128. 38:25best choice, as we'll see later. And on
  1129. 38:29top of all that, there's the appearance
  1130. 38:31of this dog. I don't understand, but
  1131. 38:34generally speaking, if you suddenly
  1132. 38:36want one and you dream of wanting
  1133. 38:37something expensive, well, you'll need
  1134. 38:39to make sure the engine is in good
  1135. 38:41condition, so it's not too jacked up,
  1136. 38:43and you'll need to check the suspension
  1137. 38:45. And overall, you'll still have three
  1138. 38:48years to drive it, but you'll have to
  1139. 38:50worry about fuel. You'll need to
  1140. 38:53periodically adjust the robot, and
  1141. 38:55don't overtax the car. The next car is
  1142. 39:00the Haval M6. We have a full review of
  1143. 39:03it. And we're talking about the second
  1144. 39:05generation, because the first one was
  1145. 39:07sold in our country in literally single
  1146. 39:09units, and the second generation
  1147. 39:10appeared in 2021 and is still being
  1148. 39:12produced. On the used market, they now
  1149. 39:15cost from 1.2 million rubles for a used
  1150. 39:18car that's been used as a taxi. And in
  1151. 39:21our experience, you can find something
  1152. 39:23more realistic in Moscow for around 1.6
  1153. 39:25, 1.7, or 1.8 million rubles. Right now
  1154. 39:29, according to my invisible clock, it's
  1155. 39:31October 2026. The idea behind this car
  1156. 39:33was to make the largest possible
  1157. 39:34crossover for the minimum price. It has
  1158. 39:37minimal equipment, minimal bells and
  1159. 39:39whistles; it's just a car. And it's
  1160. 39:41actually a good idea, and Haval even
  1161. 39:44executed it quite well. There are some
  1162. 39:46questions, but they're not critical.
  1163. 39:48This car uses the platform from the old
  1164. 39:50Haval A6, which came out back in 2011.
  1165. 39:53There are rumors that this platform was
  1166. 39:55cribbed from the Honda CRV, but those
  1167. 39:58are just rumors. Of course, Haval came
  1168. 40:00up with everything themselves, but in
  1169. 40:02keeping with the brand's tradition,
  1170. 40:03they simply took the Japanese car,
  1171. 40:04disassembled it, looked at what it
  1172. 40:05looked like, and tried to make it their
  1173. 40:06own. The most important thing for us as
  1174. 40:09consumers is that this platform was
  1175. 40:12proven even before the M6 hit our roads
  1176. 40:15. Overall, it's a very basic chassis, a
  1177. 40:17very basic car in terms of options, and
  1178. 40:19it retains the hefty body, which is
  1179. 40:21reflected in the price. The M6 is truly
  1180. 40:23an affordable car and, well, in today's
  1181. 40:26market, it's very reasonably priced. It
  1182. 40:28has a standard GW4G15F engine—a 1.5-
  1183. 40:30liter turbo, four cylinders, 143
  1184. 40:32horsepower, multipoint injection,
  1185. 40:34chain-link, and so on. But then again,
  1186. 40:37we talked about it in more detail in
  1187. 40:38the review. And overall, it's a decent
  1188. 40:41engine. The only thing we can say about
  1189. 40:44it from our experience is that it leaks
  1190. 40:46everywhere. It just presses the gaskets
  1191. 40:48. For some, it's from the heat, for
  1192. 40:49others from the cold, and for others,
  1193. 40:51it just decides to wet itself in the
  1194. 40:52fall. Basically, it leaks very often.
  1195. 40:54And the turbo can also fail. Sometimes
  1196. 40:57it can just wet itself, sometimes it
  1197. 40:58can start humming, farting, whistling,
  1198. 41:00and falling apart. But again, these
  1199. 41:02aren't widespread problems. Overall,
  1200. 41:04the car's engine is reliable. The most
  1201. 41:06important thing is that Hall had no
  1202. 41:07illusions about the target audience and
  1203. 41:09set the car up for octane 92 gasoline
  1204. 41:10right from the start. And given that
  1205. 41:12the engine also has multipoint
  1206. 41:14injection, it runs perfectly well and
  1207. 41:16can handle any kind of crap in any
  1208. 41:18region, simply cruising along without
  1209. 41:20any problems. The most important thing
  1210. 41:22is that it's technically complex
  1211. 41:23because of the turbocharger. If
  1212. 41:24anything, the turbocharger itself can
  1213. 41:26slip, just like with any other
  1214. 41:27turbocharged engine. And that's normal
  1215. 41:29in a mid-range car. But if you're
  1216. 41:31trying to build a budget car, I think
  1217. 41:33it's better to shove a naturally
  1218. 41:34aspirated engine in there. Well,
  1219. 41:36roughly speaking, like it was with the
  1220. 41:37Hyundai Solaris, like it was with the
  1221. 41:39Renault Logan, like it was with the
  1222. 41:40Creta, with the Duster, well, and so on
  1223. 41:42down the list. Manual. It has a 6 MF22B
  1224. 41:45. And how can I say, zero questions.
  1225. 41:49Simply zero. There's simply nothing to
  1226. 41:50say about this manual. There are cars
  1227. 41:52with manual. If you need a manual, buy
  1228. 41:54a manual. That's it. And you definitely
  1229. 41:56won't break a manual. A robot. And the
  1230. 41:597DCT300S is the majority of cars on the
  1231. 42:01market. They are divided about 80%to 20
  1232. 42:04%with a manual: 80%with a robot, 20%
  1233. 42:07with a manual. And essentially, it's
  1234. 42:09the same robot as the Dorgo. It just
  1235. 42:11has less torque. And it also runs fine.
  1236. 42:14It's also slow. It also can't do
  1237. 42:16anything with this engine, because
  1238. 42:18together they don't have enough power
  1239. 42:20for such a large car. You just drive,
  1240. 42:23revving the revs, and just endure it.
  1241. 42:26The M 6's bodywork is exactly the same
  1242. 42:28as all other Hovals. The roof edge
  1243. 42:30might rot, but the basic car itself
  1244. 42:33doesn't. And for me, as I actually
  1245. 42:36expressed my opinion in the review,
  1246. 42:38overall, from my point of view, this is
  1247. 42:40the best Hoval, because in terms of
  1248. 42:41money spent per kilogram of car, it's
  1249. 42:43the best value. A naturally-aspirated
  1250. 42:47engine would be great, too, like a 1.8
  1251. 42:49with 120 horsepower, or maybe a 2-liter
  1252. 42:51with 150. Yes, the fuel consumption
  1253. 42:53would probably be slightly higher, and
  1254. 42:55the car wouldn't be very good, but it
  1255. 42:57would definitely be a bestseller,
  1256. 42:59because then it would be impossible to
  1257. 43:01wear out the car. And this is the only
  1258. 43:04steering wheel where I can find an
  1259. 43:06adjustment for a comfortable position.
  1260. 43:08The steering wheel is thin, and it
  1261. 43:09stays in place. Yes, it still lacks
  1262. 43:11adjustment, but it stays in place from
  1263. 43:13the start. The seat, yes, is still
  1264. 43:15short, still amorphous, but for some
  1265. 43:17reason it stays in place and has enough
  1266. 43:19space. Well, again, you can see it in
  1267. 43:22the review, so to sum it up, the M6 is
  1268. 43:25a perfectly adequate car for the money.
  1269. 43:28It has no major issues. The only thing
  1270. 43:30is that you'll have to deal with the
  1271. 43:32dumb robot and the lack of dynamics.
  1272. 43:34But if you just need a large trunk to
  1273. 43:36move around comfortably, and you don't
  1274. 43:38mind the hull, and you like this car,
  1275. 43:39okay, you can do it. We've also
  1276. 43:45reviewed the F7 and F7X. Twice, in fact
  1277. 43:48. We first took the car on the road for
  1278. 43:50a quick review, and then dragged it to
  1279. 43:51the test site and discovered that the
  1280. 43:53car can't stop at all. The first
  1281. 43:55generation appeared in 2018, the rezd
  1282. 43:57came out in 2022. The F7 and F7X are
  1283. 43:59the same car. Apparently, the F7X has
  1284. 44:02different suspension settings, that
  1285. 44:04it's sportier, but everything else is
  1286. 44:06the same. The car was unveiled at the
  1287. 44:09Moscow Motor Show, back when there was
  1288. 44:11still a tradition of holding motor
  1289. 44:13shows, in 2018. And, accordingly, in
  1290. 44:15our country it comes in several
  1291. 44:16versions: all-wheel and front-wheel
  1292. 44:18drive with a 1.5-liter engine producing
  1293. 44:20150 horsepower, and all-wheel
  1294. 44:21front-wheel drive with a 2-liter engine
  1295. 44:23producing 190 horsepower. On the used
  1296. 44:26market, prices currently start at
  1297. 44:28900,000 rubles for a car that's simply
  1298. 44:30been destroyed by taxi drivers, and
  1299. 44:33around 2.6 million rubles for a freshly
  1300. 44:35restyled car, according to our data,
  1301. 44:37and because we're looking for, well, a
  1302. 44:39decent car with normal mileage,
  1303. 44:41serviced by a decent person. You can
  1304. 44:44find all of these for around 1.8
  1305. 44:46million rubles. The engines, well, one
  1306. 44:49is great, the other not so much. The
  1307. 44:52first one, uh, is the GW4B15, also
  1308. 44:54known as the GW 4 B 15A, a revised
  1309. 44:57version since 2020. And it actually
  1310. 44:59comes with both all-wheel drive and
  1311. 45:01front-wheel drive. And this is an
  1312. 45:04aluminum four-cylinder, 1.5-liter, damn
  1313. 45:06, turbo engine with a timing chain. So.
  1314. 45:09And what's in it? That's right, direct
  1315. 45:12fuel injection. Yes, the engine is
  1316. 45:15average, without any serious widespread
  1317. 45:17problems, but at the same time, like
  1318. 45:19with any new turbo engine that has just
  1319. 45:22appeared on our market, there were
  1320. 45:24still problems. There were times when
  1321. 45:26the turbine gear would crumble. Well,
  1322. 45:28simply because condensation accumulated
  1323. 45:30. Then it would turn to ice in the cold
  1324. 45:32. The turbo would go beardless. These
  1325. 45:33are a small number of cases, but one
  1326. 45:35way or another, they did happen. We
  1327. 45:36discussed in the news how the Howal
  1328. 45:38burned because something in the fuel
  1329. 45:40system spun up, gasoline dripped onto
  1330. 45:42the hot exhaust, and the car caught
  1331. 45:44fire. That's also all about the F7. And
  1332. 45:46that has also been fixed. If you're
  1333. 45:48looking at a car that didn't burn out,
  1334. 45:49then this has definitely been fixed.
  1335. 45:51Because everyone's trying to put octane
  1336. 45:53-92 gasoline into this direct-injection
  1337. 45:55engine. Naturally, we have carbon
  1338. 45:58deposits, fuel system wear, and the
  1339. 46:00engine could very well be destroyed by
  1340. 46:02detonation. That's happened before.
  1341. 46:04There are issues, like the thermostat
  1342. 46:06popping off—not a common problem, but
  1343. 46:08that's perfectly normal for a car like
  1344. 46:10this. And like any other small engine,
  1345. 46:13there are major issues warming up in
  1346. 46:15extreme cold. Well, guys, overall,
  1347. 46:18everything falls apart, everything
  1348. 46:19fizzles out, but the car's fine,
  1349. 46:21>> right? Well, for the type of design
  1350. 46:24that exists there—this aluminum
  1351. 46:26engine, direct injection, turbos, and
  1352. 46:27so on, it runs fine. The problem is
  1353. 46:30that it's a budget car. You take, say,
  1354. 46:31an engine from a sophisticated
  1355. 46:32Volkswagen and shove it into a budget
  1356. 46:34Logan. A very strange effect. Yeah,
  1357. 46:36right.
  1358. 46:37>> Overall, it's running fine, but for a
  1359. 46:38budget car, it's not always acceptable
  1360. 46:39—something needs to be replaced.
  1361. 46:42Something needs additional maintenance.
  1362. 46:44How can that even be possible? We
  1363. 46:45didn't agree on that. And here's the
  1364. 46:47other engine, specifically the
  1365. 46:49two-liter 190-horsepower GW4C20NT. It's
  1366. 46:53a cast-iron engine, meaning it has a
  1367. 46:55cast-iron block. It also has direct
  1368. 46:57injection. It's also turbocharged, but
  1369. 46:59it's a successful engine. It also had
  1370. 47:02some initial fuel system issues,
  1371. 47:03exactly the same as the 1.5-liter
  1372. 47:04engine, but those have since been
  1373. 47:06resolved. And overall, if you don't put
  1374. 47:08crap in the car, it'll be fine. And the
  1375. 47:11two-liter engine is already sufficient
  1376. 47:13for the F7X, given that the 1.5-liter
  1377. 47:15barely pulls and is under a lot of
  1378. 47:16stress. The two-liter is more or less
  1379. 47:18fine. So, if we're talking about buying
  1380. 47:20an F7X, it's definitely better to look
  1381. 47:22at the two-liter engine. You'll sell
  1382. 47:24her a simpler car later and have fewer
  1383. 47:26problems with operation. But it's still
  1384. 47:2895 octane plus gasoline. Ideally, 98
  1385. 47:30octane. Khoval drivers don't usually do
  1386. 47:33that. And where are you going to find a
  1387. 47:34car that hasn't been constantly filled
  1388. 47:36with 92 octane by the bucket? Big
  1389. 47:37question. They don't recommend there,
  1390. 47:40like in Volkswagen, that you fill up
  1391. 47:42with no less than 95 octane or no less.
  1392. 47:45>> No, the car is programmed for
  1393. 47:46second-grade, like it fills up with
  1394. 47:47second-grade.
  1395. 47:48>> That's it. Uh, well, I don't...
  1396. 47:49>> They don't write recommendations about
  1397. 47:51anything. I just honestly don't
  1398. 47:52understand why she's doing it. Like,
  1399. 47:53install a naturally aspirated engine.
  1400. 47:54That's it. We don't have environmental
  1401. 47:56requirements in our country, well,
  1402. 47:57there aren't any, but they won't
  1403. 47:59develop a separate engine for us, like.
  1404. 48:00Well, never mind. Otherwise, it's the
  1405. 48:02same as Khoval's. The robot is the same
  1406. 48:05, it's also called GW7 DCT1 there. Well
  1407. 48:09, who cares. It's the same robot, just
  1408. 48:10with different torque limitations. It's
  1409. 48:13just as sluggish, the suspension rides
  1410. 48:15the same—if you don't abuse the car,
  1411. 48:16it'll survive, but if you drive on dirt
  1412. 48:18roads and constantly have the gas
  1413. 48:19pallet, it'll fall apart. The body is
  1414. 48:22exactly the same. The roof isn't
  1415. 48:24galvanized, so it rots at the first
  1416. 48:26opportunity. All the other components
  1417. 48:28are more or less functional. It's a
  1418. 48:29restyled F7, which appeared in 2022.
  1419. 48:31The technology is basically the same,
  1420. 48:33just the price tag and a younger car.
  1421. 48:35So, if you really want a restyled
  1422. 48:36version, by all means, buy it. But I'd
  1423. 48:38consider the Doris, because it's the
  1424. 48:39same car. Regarding the bodies, there
  1425. 48:41are also strange videos online and
  1426. 48:43forum posts about people supposedly
  1427. 48:44getting inside door panels, for example
  1428. 48:46, or digging into some hidden cavities
  1429. 48:48and finding that everything there has
  1430. 48:50already begun to rot completely, and
  1431. 48:52the car...well, in another 2-3 years,
  1432. 48:54everything will definitely be F7, all
  1433. 48:56Dorgos and Julians, and so on. It's
  1434. 48:57just that, well, the car will drive
  1435. 48:58away separately from the body. But,
  1436. 49:00frankly, in our experience, we don't
  1437. 49:01see such problems all that often. Yes,
  1438. 49:04cars rust, yes, indeed, some rust spots
  1439. 49:05appear somewhere, somewhere at the
  1440. 49:07joints, say, between the fender and the
  1441. 49:09bumper, somewhere on the rear door,
  1442. 49:10where some decorative element is
  1443. 49:11constantly rubbing against the body,
  1444. 49:13something can also happen there, even
  1445. 49:15the roof. But in our experience, we
  1446. 49:17don't see the entire car rot inside,
  1447. 49:19even in Moscow—again, again,
  1448. 49:20footnotes. If we're talking about cars
  1449. 49:23that haven't been in an accident, or,
  1450. 49:25say, a bunch of minor accidents—where
  1451. 49:27all the body parts are constantly
  1452. 49:29rubbing together, someone's constantly
  1453. 49:30taking them apart, putting them back
  1454. 49:32together, and so on—then we can't
  1455. 49:34even talk about any kind of predictable
  1456. 49:36service life, because they could just
  1457. 49:37rot away at any moment, simply because
  1458. 49:39of poor repairs. And the last car in
  1459. 49:45Hvala today is, naturally, the Zhuleon.
  1460. 49:48It's our most popular Haval Calypso
  1461. 49:50rider, the most popular crossover in
  1462. 49:52our country with the Haval brand at the
  1463. 49:55moment. It's been sold since the first
  1464. 49:57generation appeared in 2021,
  1465. 49:59essentially. We had a restyling in 2023
  1466. 50:01, and then another restyling recently,
  1467. 50:04but they're all essentially the same
  1468. 50:06car. On the secondary market, of course
  1469. 50:08, the Dorest is mostly sold, simply
  1470. 50:10because it's older. There are fewer
  1471. 50:12resto cars, but they're also starting
  1472. 50:14to disappear, especially from the used
  1473. 50:15car parks. Some remaining cars start at
  1474. 50:181 million rubles. The market ceiling
  1475. 50:21under Dorist is 2.5 million rubles. And
  1476. 50:23in our experience, you can start
  1477. 50:25looking for a decent car for around 1.7
  1478. 50:27million rubles. So, it turns out that
  1479. 50:30the F7, Jzhion, and M6 are all priced
  1480. 50:32more or less the same on the used
  1481. 50:34market, which is pretty strange.
  1482. 50:37Because usually, when you have the same
  1483. 50:39model lineup and different cars in
  1484. 50:40different classes, the price is somehow
  1485. 50:42different, but the used ones are a dime
  1486. 50:44a dozen. We're all more or less on the
  1487. 50:46used market. For 1.7 or 1.8, you can
  1488. 50:49get any car you want. That also says
  1489. 50:52something about the Chinese. But again,
  1490. 50:54you have to understand that Khoval is
  1491. 50:56probably in one of the best positions
  1492. 50:58in this regard, because, for example,
  1493. 51:00Chengan, X, all the rest of the Cherry
  1494. 51:02line, they're all getting cheaper, of
  1495. 51:04course, categorically more.
  1496. 51:07>> Well, I think this is because people
  1497. 51:09initially bought Julians when prices
  1498. 51:11were pre-war, when there wasn't much
  1499. 51:13demand, plus the pandemic and the war
  1500. 51:16hit. Exchange
  1501. 51:17>> rates fluctuated, and so on. It was
  1502. 51:20originally cheaper. So, basically, it
  1503. 51:22was initially just worth two.
  1504. 51:23>> Now it's selling for 1.8. And no, more
  1505. 51:25precisely, during the war, I think it
  1506. 51:27was even worth something like 1.5 or
  1507. 51:281.6 somewhere around that. They're just
  1508. 51:30selling it for the same. And IXIDs in
  1509. 51:32'22-'23 were bought there, like, well,
  1510. 51:34for the same price, they're selling for
  1511. 51:35much less. But then again, we have a
  1512. 51:37top list with comparative figures for
  1513. 51:39all Chinese brands. We talk about
  1514. 51:41depreciation in detail there. So,
  1515. 51:43basically, people who bought the Jon
  1516. 51:44didn't lose out by much. They
  1517. 51:46definitely lost less than all the other
  1518. 51:48Chinese brands. So, the most profitable
  1519. 51:51financial investment, if you can even
  1520. 51:53say that, was in the case of the Juke,
  1521. 51:55because the same F7 cost almost half as
  1522. 51:57much in the showroom as the Juke, and
  1523. 52:00now it's worth the same on the used
  1524. 52:02market. You have to understand that the
  1525. 52:04Jon is a really budget, cheap car,
  1526. 52:06really cheap, and you have to make
  1527. 52:08allowances for that. Because if you
  1528. 52:11look at it from this perspective, it's
  1529. 52:12the cheapest Hoval has ever produced in
  1530. 52:14our country, well, overall, it's
  1531. 52:15well-made. Overall, not bad. If you
  1532. 52:19just get into it and expect it to be a
  1533. 52:20car, then yes, of course, you'll be
  1534. 52:22disappointed by the same multimedia,
  1535. 52:24the same driving position, the same
  1536. 52:26overall interior design. The only plus
  1537. 52:28is that it's big for its class. You'll
  1538. 52:31be able to carry everything in it
  1539. 52:32comfortably, but everyone in car
  1540. 52:33sharing has probably driven a Julian;
  1541. 52:34everyone has a more or less idea of
  1542. 52:35what kind of car it is. And essentially
  1543. 52:37, these are all its problems, because
  1544. 52:39the car is technically sound. Under the
  1545. 52:42hood, we have a 1.5-liter turbo engine,
  1546. 52:45the G15K with 143 horsepower. And it
  1547. 52:49has multipoint injection, a ported
  1548. 52:50engine, hiding the H2, which was still
  1549. 52:52being supplied to Russia back then,
  1550. 52:54well, even before the factory, so to
  1551. 52:56speak. And since the engine has
  1552. 52:59multipoint injection, it was initially
  1553. 53:01configured for octane 92 gasoline. It
  1554. 53:04was designed for it, everything is fine
  1555. 53:06with it, and the car just drives. If it
  1556. 53:10had direct injection, it would be a
  1557. 53:11complete disaster, just like with
  1558. 53:13everything else, because you simply,
  1559. 53:14well, it's impossible to make a car
  1560. 53:16with direct injection not get clogged
  1561. 53:18with on cheap, bad fuel. And for
  1562. 53:20budget cars, multipoint injection is
  1563. 53:22just the thing. And a very durable
  1564. 53:24engine. And naturally, it's fine.
  1565. 53:26Everything is fine with it. Totally
  1566. 53:28fine. It just drives, I mean, it just
  1567. 53:29drives. We often go to look at Juulions
  1568. 53:31, and we don't see any problems with
  1569. 53:33the engines there. So, it's simply,
  1570. 53:35well, roughly speaking, like in the
  1571. 53:36Logan, like in the Solaris, like in the
  1572. 53:38Duster. There you go. It's just a
  1573. 53:39simple engine, it's always clean inside
  1574. 53:40, everything is fine with it, the cat
  1575. 53:42doesn't crumble, everything is fine.
  1576. 53:43The 6 F 22B manual transmission is also
  1577. 53:46nothing to say, just like in the Mshego
  1578. 53:48. Well, well, it's a manual. You drive
  1579. 53:51it, then you drive back, everything is,
  1580. 53:54well, running. The GW7 DCT1, the same
  1581. 53:57one that's installed on absolutely
  1582. 53:59every Haval, has all the same problems:
  1583. 54:01it's sluggish, it shakes, it rolls back
  1584. 54:03on hills. The first versions had issues
  1585. 54:05with the mechanicals, but they've all
  1586. 54:07been fixed now. Now it's just sluggish,
  1587. 54:09just shifting gears slowly. The
  1588. 54:11suspension is the same. There are no
  1589. 54:13critical issues. There are no
  1590. 54:15maintenance issues, spare parts are
  1591. 54:16readily available. If you try to
  1592. 54:18destroy the car, you can certainly ruin
  1593. 54:21the suspension, but in normal civilian
  1594. 54:23use, there are no serious issues. The
  1595. 54:26body is exactly the same; if it rusts,
  1596. 54:27it's the roof that's the first.
  1597. 54:29Everything else holds up as best it can
  1598. 54:31. There's the same gunk in the paint,
  1599. 54:33the same streaks, the same things,
  1600. 54:34sometimes there are double paint jobs
  1601. 54:36under warranty because something simply
  1602. 54:38happened to the paint. But for budget
  1603. 54:39cars, this is generally normal. And in
  1604. 54:41a sense, the Julian is our current
  1605. 54:43replacement for the Creet. No matter
  1606. 54:46how painful it may be, because
  1607. 54:48in my eyes the Creta is still a better
  1608. 54:49car, it's better designed. It's just
  1609. 54:51that the people who made it had a
  1610. 54:53better understanding of what a car is.
  1611. 54:55And as we initially said back in 2022,
  1612. 54:57well, definitely someone will be able
  1613. 54:59to benefit from the current situation,
  1614. 55:01someone will definitely be able to eat
  1615. 55:03into some positions and will definitely
  1616. 55:05be able to make a good amount of money,
  1617. 55:07and people will really try out some
  1618. 55:09kind of car. Now, if you can look at
  1619. 55:11the Chinese, then it's about the Julian
  1620. 55:12. Probably, if you objectively compare
  1621. 55:14it to the Creta, its only advantage is
  1622. 55:16that it's bigger and everyone will be
  1623. 55:18more comfortable in the cabin than in
  1624. 55:20the Creta. Everyone except the driver,
  1625. 55:22because the driver in the Julian is,
  1626. 55:24well, bad. Like, really bad. Well, the
  1627. 55:26seat is uncomfortable, the steering
  1628. 55:27wheel is awkwardly positioned, and I
  1629. 55:28won't be able to get comfortable there.
  1630. 55:30But everyone else will be more
  1631. 55:31comfortable. The trunk is bigger, the
  1632. 55:33back seat is bigger, but otherwise,
  1633. 55:35well, it's also a budget car. It
  1634. 55:37handles absolutely nothing compared to
  1635. 55:38the Creta, again. It's not that the
  1636. 55:41Creta handles perfectly, but at least
  1637. 55:43people there know how a car should turn
  1638. 55:46. Jlion seems surprised every time it
  1639. 55:49turns, like, what the heck. And then,
  1640. 55:52over time, as the shock absorbers and
  1641. 55:54suspension wear out, it starts to rock
  1642. 55:56even more. And that makes the car
  1643. 55:58really interesting to drive. But the
  1644. 56:01most important thing is that currently,
  1645. 56:03on the used market—and if you look at
  1646. 56:05Chinese cars, if you look at the budget
  1647. 56:08segment—the Gon is truly the best
  1648. 56:10choice. Well, simply because the market
  1649. 56:12has decided so over time. And you can
  1650. 56:14confidently buy it on the used market,
  1651. 56:16because a lot of people have already
  1652. 56:18experimented with it themselves, and
  1653. 56:20they've already paid for it themselves.
  1654. 56:22It doesn't absorb shock, after all,
  1655. 56:24there's demand for it, including on the
  1656. 56:26used market. And it might even be
  1657. 56:28possible to sell it. So, it's possible
  1658. 56:30to find one now, maybe drive it for two
  1659. 56:31or three years without a problem and
  1660. 56:33then sell it without losing much money.
  1661. 56:35Precisely because it's simply, well,
  1662. 56:37it's taken root, it's definitely here
  1663. 56:38to stay. And even if all the Germans,
  1664. 56:41Japanese, and so on return, the Julion
  1665. 56:44will likely remain. Or something like
  1666. 56:47the Julion, because this budget
  1667. 56:48crossover niche, with a factory in our
  1668. 56:50country making an inexpensive car, a
  1669. 56:53crossover that can potentially fit the
  1670. 56:55whole family, and it just drives
  1671. 56:56without being noticed. Right now,
  1672. 56:59that's what we have with the Led. And
  1673. 57:03that's all we have left. There are
  1674. 57:05other models out there, but they're so
  1675. 57:07unpopular or there's so little data on
  1676. 57:09them that it's too early to talk about
  1677. 57:11them. Comment below with what you agree
  1678. 57:12with and what you disagree with. Share
  1679. 57:14your stories of using Havals, too.
  1680. 57:17We'll keep an eye on all of this, too.
  1681. 57:18Also, let us know what brand or
  1682. 57:20sub-brand we should look into next. And
  1683. 57:22thank you very much for your attention.
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  1686. 57:28see you're not subscribed. Well, for
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  1690. 57:36fix that. Bye.
  1691. 57:48>> I didn't get charged for the
  1692. 57:49thing, damn it, it's just an M6 for
  1693. 57:50real. Who are you telling me?
  1694. 57:52>> Yeah. Go ahead. No
  1695. 57:53>> one will believe you in the comments
  1696. 57:54anyway. No
  1697. 57:54>> one will ever believe me in the
  1698. 57:55comments. And yes, and
  1699. 57:57>> yes, and no one will believe you there
  1700. 57:58either, Nikita. So,
  1701. 57:59>> yes, indeed, you
  1702. 58:00>> can say we got charged, and then say we
  1703. 58:02didn't...
  1704. 58:03>> You know, coming to a blogger in the
  1705. 58:05comments and saying he got charged
  1706. 58:07something for writing about a used car,
  1707. 58:10you have to be so ignorant of what
  1708. 58:12people get paid for in the automotive
  1709. 58:14world that it's just, well, no one is
  1710. 58:16interested in used cars, except for the
  1711. 58:19hyenas who deal with them.
  1712. 58:21>> Well, I don't share your admiration for
  1713. 58:24the M6, but frankly, it looks bad.
  1714. 58:27>> How much does it cost? By the way, it
  1715. 58:28costs as much as a normal car. Two 2.5,
  1716. 58:31yes, I think. I'm
  1717. 58:32>> telling you. You can find one on the
  1718. 58:35used market for 1.6, for 1.7.
  1719. 58:36>> Oh, well, used. And if a new one from
  1720. 58:38the dealership costs around two, you'll
  1721. 58:40>> buy something new now, a used one. No,
  1722. 58:42you won't buy it for that kind of money
  1723. 58:44. Like I said, in terms of a kilogram
  1724. 58:47of car for 1,000 rubles, well,
  1725. 58:48relatively speaking, it's the best deal
  1726. 58:50on the market right now. It's
  1727. 58:52essentially just a replacement for a
  1728. 58:54Largus. That owner bought it back then
  1729. 58:56because he had two Huskies, so he could
  1730. 58:58carry three, exactly three Huskies in
  1731. 58:59the trunk.
  1732. 59:00>> Come on. That's how Huskies are made.
  1733. 59:02>> Oh,
  1734. 59:03>> and three of those, imagine that. No,
  1735. 59:05seriously, you simply won't buy
  1736. 59:06anything for that kind of money now.
  1737. 59:07You can't really find anything like
  1738. 59:08that on the used market. The
  1739. 59:10>> most important thing is that,
  1740. 59:12considering all these Chinese cars and
  1741. 59:13the like, you won't lose money on it.
  1742. 59:16It doesn't depreciate much, which means
  1743. 59:17it's well-suited to its target audience
  1744. 59:19. Especially since the car we rented
  1745. 59:22was bought new for under 2 million
  1746. 59:25rubles. Well, because the supply and
  1747. 59:27everything else were in place. You
  1748. 59:29won't run out of parts anywhere. It's
  1749. 59:31absolutely problem-free. The only thing
  1750. 59:34is, well, it'll probably be hard to get
  1751. 59:36300,000-400,000 miles on it without
  1752. 59:37replacing the engine. Well, that's
  1753. 59:40simply because it's a 1.5-liter engine
  1754. 59:42in a two-ton car with almost 100
  1755. 59:43horsepower per liter. It'll probably
  1756. 59:45ask you for something. And from the
  1757. 59:47hypothetical bestseller, which is, well
  1758. 59:49, supposedly absolutely reliable and
  1759. 59:50just goes on for generations, the only
  1760. 59:51thing that separates it is essentially
  1761. 59:53the engine.
  1762. 59:54>> If you're a sensible person, you'll buy
  1763. 59:57a Honda Stepvan, a Nissan Sirena, a
  1764. 1:00:00>> Toyota Voxy. This will all be before...
  1765. 1:00:04>> How many Stepvegans have been sold in
  1766. 1:00:05our country? How many M6s have been
  1767. 1:00:06sold?
  1768. 1:00:07>> Listen, it's hard to find statistics on
  1769. 1:00:08Stepvegans, because they're imported
  1770. 1:00:10cars,
  1771. 1:00:10>> right? Because you have three in your
  1772. 1:00:12neighborhood in Moscow and that's it?
  1773. 1:00:13>> Yeah. Have you seen how many of them
  1774. 1:00:14have appeared in Moscow? Do you know
  1775. 1:00:15what the brain's confirmation bias is?
  1776. 1:00:17>> I know, I understand, but really,
  1777. 1:00:19>> you probably have a ton of them, too.
  1778. 1:00:20>> No, there are no BZets.
  1779. 1:00:23>> I'm the only idiot. They've really been
  1780. 1:00:26appearing in Moscow in large numbers,
  1781. 1:00:27at least since 22.
  1782. 1:00:28>> No, yeah. Yeah, and with time there
  1783. 1:00:30will be more and more of them,
  1784. 1:00:31naturally. It makes sense. But again,
  1785. 1:00:33these are minor details relative to the
  1786. 1:00:35car market. There are fewer of them,
  1787. 1:00:37much fewer.
  1788. 1:00:38>> I know, but I just sat and drove a
  1789. 1:00:40Haval M6. I drove a Stepwagon, and all
  1790. 1:00:44these
  1791. 1:00:45>> cars are just different. They're
  1792. 1:00:48completely different cars. Well, the
  1793. 1:00:50pleasure you get from paying for a
  1794. 1:00:53Stepwagon or a siren doesn't even come
  1795. 1:00:56close to that if you buy an M6.
  1796. 1:00:59>> Well, of course, yes. I'm talking about
  1797. 1:01:01sensible people.
  1798. 1:01:01>> No, look. For adults, let's say, my
  1799. 1:01:04mother got a car in her life, well, if
  1800. 1:01:06I have a limited budget, I should buy
  1801. 1:01:08something right-hand drive, something
  1802. 1:01:10proven even by the market, or a regular
  1803. 1:01:11standard left-hand drive, but I won't
  1804. 1:01:13put her behind the wheel of a
  1805. 1:01:15right-hand drive at her age. Well, I'm
  1806. 1:01:17like, I'll go gray every day. The
  1807. 1:01:19>> fourth person bought a Raf, by the way.
  1808. 1:01:20>> Well, you're not going to buy her
  1809. 1:01:22anything. Well, you'd like, well, like,
  1810. 1:01:25move an adult to the city, well, no,
  1811. 1:01:27well, your wife, who, for example,
  1812. 1:01:28drives on the left, they all drive well
  1813. 1:01:30, put them in the right. Well, like,
  1814. 1:01:33what are you talking about? You know,
  1815. 1:01:34like, a helmet, sister.
  1816. 1:01:35>> And what about a helmet? Well, like, my
  1817. 1:01:37knees are new. Who's going to put a
  1818. 1:01:38helmet on? You're just young. We're
  1819. 1:01:40>> getting back to our standard, our
  1820. 1:01:42standard conversation. You talk about
  1821. 1:01:45sensible people, and I'm telling you
  1822. 1:01:47that if you add up absolutely all the
  1823. 1:01:49right-hand drive cars in our country,
  1824. 1:01:51across all years and all generations,
  1825. 1:01:53all-all-all-all, all-all-all-all, it
  1826. 1:01:55would be, like, 4 million cars.
  1827. 1:01:57>> I know, yes, I remember the statistics,
  1828. 1:01:59>> yes, I understand that there aren't
  1829. 1:02:02many of them yet, but I'm here so that
  1830. 1:02:04there will be more.
  1831. 1:02:06>> You add 20 more people to those 4
  1832. 1:02:09million, guys,
  1833. 1:02:10>> and we'll get there, so to
  1834. 1:02:12>> speak. We're talking about 8.7%of the
  1835. 1:02:15market, some values like that. So let's
  1836. 1:02:20conduct a thought experiment. Well, I
  1837. 1:02:24don't want to offend anyone, but you
  1838. 1:02:26could conduct your own experiment.
  1839. 1:02:29Let's imagine that you teleport 100
  1840. 1:02:31random people from different walks of
  1841. 1:02:34life into some random room where you
  1842. 1:02:36are. Just 100 random people. And what
  1843. 1:02:39percentage of those 100 people will be,
  1844. 1:02:42well, some really weird characters,
  1845. 1:02:45some really out of the ordinary.
  1846. 1:02:48>> Three.
  1847. 1:02:49>> Well, maybe five people out of that
  1848. 1:02:51hundred will be some really, really
  1849. 1:02:52interesting characters.
  1850. 1:02:54>> And the rest will be, the
  1851. 1:02:55>> rest will be just normal people.
  1852. 1:02:57>> NPCs, well, we have tools of influence.
  1853. 1:03:00That's why we push ideas like this on
  1854. 1:03:05people, like you can
  1855. 1:03:07>> buy hands, you can wave them
  1856. 1:03:09>> this way, or you can do it that way.
  1857. 1:03:11And the person can decide for
  1858. 1:03:12themselves what's important to them.
  1859. 1:03:13He's
  1860. 1:03:14>> going for right-hand drive cars. He's
  1861. 1:03:15>> just comparing. Like, really, if you
  1862. 1:03:17put all these people in a group, like
  1863. 1:03:19100 of them, they'll
  1864. 1:03:20>> all go and buy left-hand drive cars.
  1865. 1:03:22What do you think? Well, people aren't
  1866. 1:03:23people, they don't look, they don't
  1867. 1:03:25think, they don't know. You're the only
  1868. 1:03:27one with the secret knowledge
  1869. 1:03:29>> that there's a step-gun, and everyone
  1870. 1:03:31else is like, ", step-gun." So,
  1871. 1:03:33Nikitos, you gave us step-gun. Thank
  1872. 1:03:35you very much. Well, like, yeah, no, of
  1873. 1:03:37course, everyone knows. But
  1874. 1:03:38>> look, if they went and bought an
  1875. 1:03:40Octavia,
  1876. 1:03:41>> if you give all these, uh, people the
  1877. 1:03:44trim levels, prices, mileage, condition
  1878. 1:03:47, and year. And then you compare cars
  1879. 1:03:51of the same budget head-on.
  1880. 1:03:53>> People will go buy...Wait, no, people
  1881. 1:03:55will go buy. Now he'll take a rest. No
  1882. 1:03:57one gives a damn.
  1883. 1:03:59>> 8%, Nikitos, 8%. Do
  1884. 1:04:01>> you know what kind of holy war is going
  1885. 1:04:02on on the internet right now? Uh,
  1886. 1:04:04>> you realize there are more LDPR
  1887. 1:04:06supporters.
  1888. 1:04:08>> Well, that's not the best thing right
  1889. 1:04:09now, by the way.
  1890. 1:04:11>> People are mostly from the Far East, of
  1891. 1:04:13course, but it's getting closer to the
  1892. 1:04:15Urals. Now they're starting to get a
  1893. 1:04:19taste for right-hand drive Mercedes and
  1894. 1:04:21BMWs, because for less money you get
  1895. 1:04:23lower mileage, a newer year,
  1896. 1:04:26>> better equipment, and better condition.
  1897. 1:04:28>> Yeah. That's it.
  1898. 1:04:29>> And even in the comments, there are
  1899. 1:04:30guys like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get
  1900. 1:04:32it. It's temporary. It's a window of
  1901. 1:04:33opportunity.
  1902. 1:04:34>> Hurry up, hurry up, damn it. There's a
  1903. 1:04:35>> small number of people. You can't get
  1904. 1:04:37everyone into this. The Haval M6 is a
  1905. 1:04:38decent car, it's already been tested by
  1906. 1:04:40the market, nothing major is happening.
  1907. 1:04:42It costs a reasonable amount, like 1.7,
  1908. 1:04:441.8, 1.9 million rubles. And you buy it
  1909. 1:04:46, and you load it with crap from a
  1910. 1:04:48shovel and don't worry about the
  1911. 1:04:49availability of spare parts or service
  1912. 1:04:51centers. You just drive it like any
  1913. 1:04:53other decent, potentially popular car.
  1914. 1:04:56He has a problem with the turbo engine,
  1915. 1:04:57with the fact that it's there, that
  1916. 1:04:59it's a turbo engine in a big car. But
  1917. 1:05:01>> this one is a no-brainer. It's just a
  1918. 1:05:04awesome car. Would
  1919. 1:05:05>> you like to write a top list of
  1920. 1:05:07right-hand drive cars?
  1921. 1:05:08>> Oh, by the way, well,
  1922. 1:05:10>> you write it down and then we'll talk.
  1923. 1:05:11>> Only then with numbers and that, and
  1924. 1:05:13with the offers that exist in the same
  1925. 1:05:14segment. They sell Subaru BRZs.
  1926. 1:05:17>> And what people mostly buy, and you'll
  1927. 1:05:19be surprised.
  1928. 1:05:21>> Exactly.

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