Where the imported cars came from?

According to the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", for the first 9 months of 2018 the volume of import by legal entities of passenger cars (new and used) to Russia was 173.7 thousand units. Moreover, every third car arrived to us from Japan (57.2 thousand units), and every sixth one came from Germany (27.7 thousand units). Thus, these two countries account for about half (48.9%) of all imports.

A significant number of passenger cars are imported to us from the USA (15.9 thousand units) and Great Britain (12.6 thousand units), the share of which is 9.1% and 7.2%, respectively. The TOP-five among the importing countries is closed by Thailand (8.8 thousand units). Also a lot of cars come to our country from Turkey, Slovakia, Hungary, China and Sweden.

Toyota Land Cruiser SUV became the most imported model in Russia during the reporting period, the figure of which was 10.7 thousand units. In the second place with 7.1 thousand cars there is another Japanese brand SUV - Toyota Land Cruiser Prado. One more “Japanese” - Lexus RX (6.8 thousand units) is in the TOP-three. The TOP-five of the most imported cars in our country is closed by Mercedes-Benz GLC (4.9 thousand units) and Toyota Corolla (4.8 thousand units).