Leaders of the Russian car market in 2016

For the last year, 1.43 million new cars were sold in Russia (according to the AEB, including LCV). Thus, in compare with 2015, the Russian car market declined by 11%.

The top-10 producers is headed by AVTOVAZ-Renault-Nissan, which sold 477.3 thousand cars (-7.9%) during the reporting period, which corresponds to the third part of the total volume of the Russian market (33.5%). In the second place there is Hyundai-KIA with 294.9 thousand sold units (-9.2%) and a market share of 20.7%. The third place is occupied by Volkswagen Group with the volume of 156.7 thousand cars (-4.9%) and the share of 11%. Three of these groups together cover more than 65% of the Russian car market.

In the first ten of the groups of automakers, only half of them have market growth. It was made by the best way by Ford, which in 2016 had the sales grow by 10.2%. In the "plus" there were domestic GAZ (9%) and UAZ (+ 0.5%), as well as the Japanese Toyota Group (+ 0.3%) and the German BMW Group (+ 0.1%). Other market participants saw a decline in sales, GM Group had the largest one (-53%).

The leader among the models is still Hyundai Solaris, whose sales were 90.4 thousand units for the last year - 22% less than a year before. The second place in the model rating is taken by the domestic LADA Granta with 87.7 thousand cars (-27%). KIA Rio is quite slightly behind (87.7 thousand units, -9.7%), which closed the top three.

LADA Vesta (20 times) demonstrates the largest increase in sales among 20 model-leaders, which appeared in the market only at the end of 2015. For 12 months of the last year, 55.2 thousand of such cars were sold. Positive dynamics was also shown by Toyota RAV4 (+ 12.9%), Skoda Rapid (+ 5.6%), Volkswagen Polo (+ 5.1%), Skoda Octavia (+ 1.8%) and Renault Duster (+0, 2%).

Most of the models, included in the TOP-20, have a drop in sales; the strongest one is belonged to LADA Kalina (-41.5%).