MOSCOW (Reuter) - All foreign-made cars displayed at Russia's first international motor show have been sold out in its five days, more than half of them bought by private purchasers, Izvestia said yesterday. Even an armour-plated Mercedes, worth 526,000 German marks ( pounds 189,000), found an owner in a country with an average monthly wage of 5,000 roubles ( pounds 14).
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