Budget priced Asian family sized cars prove a hit and beat falling sales

For the past few weeks Korean Kia has been offering a large family car for zł.34,000 which includes a 10% custom tax, a price which is far less than any other European car maker can afford. Vehicles of up to recently unknown car brands are taking over the domestic market due to low price and a finished quality, which is sufficient for the average user. Since January some 45,000 cars made by twelve Asian producers have been bought, which means they already control roughly one-third of the market, up from about 25% last year. According to the data from Samar, an auto market analyst, the sales of Asian cars in Poland in 2005 decreased by only 6%, due to falling sales of high-end Asian producers, while the whole market deteriorated by 30%. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, B1) M.M.