What kind of cars do people from Russian cities with a million population buy?

In the period from January to August 2018, 1.14 million new cars were sold in the Russian market. Three leading models, according to the data of the analytic agency AUTOSTAT, look like this: KIA Rio, LADA Vesta and LADA Granta. These three models have a significant lead over their closest pursuers and they are leaders in 13 million-plus cities of 16.

So, KIA Rio is the undisputed leader in 8 cities at once - in Moscow, where the market size of the model for January - August was 9274 units, and the share - 6.2%; in Kazan (1089 units, 6.8%); in Yekaterinburg (792 units, 5.3%); in Nizhny Novgorod (756, 6.6%); Krasnodar (737 units, 6.7%), Rostov-on-Don (638 units, 6.6%); Ufa (661 units, 5.9%) and Chelyabinsk (580 units, 5.7%).

Domestic LADA Vesta was able to take the first place in sales in three cities - Samara (1134 units, 8.8%); Voronezh (784 units, 8.3%) and Krasnoyarsk (326 units, 5.5%). And one more model of AvtoVAZ - LADA Granta - heads the sales ratings in Perm (929 units, 10%) and Volgograd (583 units, 8.4%).

In two Siberian cities - Omsk and Novosibirsk - Datsunon-DO (472 units, 7.8%) and Hyundai Solaris (487 units, 6.2%) became the leaders.

And in St. Petersburg, the undisputed leader remains the Volkswagen Polo sedan, which since the beginning of the year has been sold in amount of 3,654 units, and it has occupied a market share of 5.2%.