Leaders of the car market in the 1st quarter of 2018

For the first month of spring, sales of passenger cars and LCV in our country, according to the AEB, were 157.3 thousand units - almost 14% more than in March of 2017. According to the results of the first quarter, positive dynamics is also observed (+ 21.7% to 392.9 thousand cars). Top-10 of producers are traditionally headed by AVTOVAZ-Renault-Nissan, which sold 137.1 thousand cars in January-March, which corresponds to a market share of about 35%.

In second place there is KIA-Hyundai with 91.3 thousand sold units and a market share of 23.2%. The third place is occupied by Volkswagen Group with the volume of 42.9 thousand cars and shares slightly less than 11%. Thus, they have 69% of the Russian car market totally. We should note that among the ten represented groups of automakers, the market growth was noted at nine of them. At the same time, Mitsubishi added more than others, its sales in January-March of 2018 increased 2.4 times. But the Russian UAZ showed a drop by almost a quarter.

The title of the leader among the models is still held by KIA Rio, whose indicator for the first quarter reached 25.4 thousand sold units. In second place there is LADA Vesta (24.3 thousand units), and LADA Granta closed the top three (20.6 thousand units). In the TOP-5, there are two Hyundai models - the Creta crossover and the Solaris sedan (15.8 and 14.5 thousand units, respectively).

According to experts from the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", among 20 of presented models only two (and both - Toyota) show a drop in sales in the first quarter of 2018 - the crossover RAV4 (-6.7%) and the Camry business sedan (-9%) . The rest models are in the "plus", with the largest increase in sales volumes of LADA Largus (72.2%).