Dynamics of car sales by segments in 2017

The sales of new cars in the Russian market in 2017 were 1 million 475.7 thousand units, which is more by 12.3% than the result of a year ago. At the same time, the market growth was noted in the most of segments, except for the A-class (-17.6%) and the C-class (-1.7%).

The largest by sales segment was the SUV. So, the share of crossovers and SUVs in the last year was 41.9% of total sales of cars in the country, which corresponds to 617.7 thousand units (+ 20.9%). The leader here, as in previous months, continues to be a new crossover Hyundai Creta (55.3 thousand units, + 152.2%). It is followed by Renault Duster (43.8 thousand units -0.4%) and Toyota RAV4 (32.9 thousand units, + 7.6%).

In the second place by sales there is the B-class, whose cars for the year 2017were sold in amount of 587.3 thousand units (+ 8.1%), which is equal to a 39.8% share. Among the models, KIA Rio is leading (96.7 thousand units, + 10.3%). In the top- three there are two LADA models - Granta (93.7 thousand units, + 6.8%) and Vesta (77.3 thousand units, + 40.1%).