The Polish Car Market: A Distorted Reflection of Change in Poland

In the 1989-1993 period a profound revolution transformed the car market in Poland. In parallel to an economic bust, and a drop in real incomes, the number of registered passenger cars grew by.

The Polish Car Market: A Distorted Reflection of Change in Poland.

Eugenieusz Smikowski Piotr Kwiatkowski and Jacek Mlynarski PENTOR Institute for Opinion & Market Research, Poland

THE PHENOMENAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE CAR MARKET

Doubtlessly, a phenomenon of the Polish structural changes is the high growth in durable consumer goods owned by households, in parallel to an economic breakdown and a fall in real incomes in the 1989-1992 period. An excellent example of this marvel are privately owned passenger cars.

Owing to the creation of a free, unbridled market, between 1989 and 1993 almost two million...

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