For the first quarter of this year in Russia has issued 39 348 loans in the framework of the state program of subsidizing interest rates on loans for car purchase domestic production, according to the Ministry of industry and trade. Since the beginning of the year was filed 93 892 applications for concessional loans. In total, about 7.6% of the cars on the Russian market in the first quarter sold in the framework of the program of preferential crediting. According to the forecast of the Ministry, in 2011 Russia will be issued 120 thousand preferential loans for purchase of cars of domestic Assembly. Just for the duration of subsidized loan programs (March 2009) was adopted 533 500 applications and issued approximately 260 thousand credits. According to Nielsen, every third car in Russian cities with population over 100 thousand people last year was bought on credit. Source: AUTOSTAT"