Leaders of car market in October of 2018

In October of this year, sales of cars and LCV in Russia, according to the AEB, amounted to 160,425 units. This result is more by 8.2% than a year ago. In total, for 10 months, sales of cars in our country were 1 million 457.9 thousand units, which is more by 14.1% than in January - October of the last year.

Over 70% of the Russian car market belongs to three groups. The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance is leading here, by selling 58 thousand cars (+ 9%) in October, which corresponds to a market share of 36.2%. Recall that there are taken into account the results of sales of LADA cars, as AVTOVAZ is a member of this alliance.

In the second place of this rating there is KIA-Hyundai with 37 thousand sold units (+ 11.5%) and a market share of 23.1%, and the third position is occupied by the Volkswagen Group (19.7 thousand units; share - 12.3 %) with the highest market growth in the rating (+ 25.2%). Last month, three manufacturers demonstrated the negative dynamics: GAZ LCV (-11.2%), Ford (-9.1%) and GM Group (-7.8%).

The most popular model in October remained LADA Vesta, the sales of which were 10.7 thousand units. LADA Granta (10.3 thousand units) broke out to the second place, by having a slight lag from the leader. The TOP-three is closed by KIA Rio, the owners of which have become 7.9 thousand Russians. The TOP-5 of leading models also included two Hyundai models in October - the Creta crossover (5.9 thousand units) and the Solaris sedan (5.4 thousand units).
We should note that the highest growth in this rating is shown by the business sedan KIA Optima, the sales of which grew by 69.3%. In the TOP-20 of leading models, 8 of them showed a fall, and the strongest one was at Renault Sandero (-15.4%).