In Russia for six months was imported around 110,000 passenger cars, which is 28.5% less compared to the same period last year.
Automark most popular foreign cars in Russia is already not the 1st year is Toyota. Among the Russian motorists stable championship is a Japanese company, while grabbing this year, a third of the market. Model of the Toyota RAV4 crossover has become the most popular car. The share of this vehicle accounted for half of all imported cars in Russia is Toyota. Second place went to the German Mercedes-Benz. Although the number of imported cars of this brand amounted to 20 percent less than last year, the brand has not dropped below second position. The four leaders at the bottom of the brands Lexus and Audi. In this case, the speaker is rather negative. In the case of Audi it amounted to 51.5 percent. The car brand BMW is the only one who was able to get out of the rut of decrease in supply. In this case, the quantity of goods has increased almost twice. Along with this, their market share was not very large to provide meaningful results.
Sergey Udalov, is the Director of the Agency “AUTOSTAT”, conducted this study, believes that this trend is quite understandable. It all happened due to the depreciation of the ruble and a sharp increase in prices for foreign cars.
