Leaders of car market of Russia in January of 2019

In January of 2019, sales of passenger cars and LCV in our country, according to the AEB, amounted to 103,064 units - more by 0.6% than a year ago.

TOP-10 of manufacturers is headed traditionally by Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, which sold 37,794 cars in the first month of 2019 year, which corresponds to a market share of 36.7%. We will remind that sales of LADA brand are also taken into account here, since AVTOVAZ is a member of this alliance.

KIA-Hyundai is in the second place with 26,737 sold units and a market share of 25.9%. The third place is occupied by the Volkswagen Group with a volume of 12,981 cars and a share of 12.6%. Thus, these groups together occupied three quarters of the Russian car market.

Among ten represented automaker groups, the market growth was noted in five of them, the Toyota Group kept the sales at the level of January of 2018, and a half of the rating showed a decline, in the range from -0.2% (Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi) to -44.4% ( Ford). The German BMW Group grew more than other manufacturers, its sales increased by 29.2%.

The leader among the models was LADA Granta with an indicator of 7 630 sold cars, by showing the highest in the TOP-20 market dynamics (+ 43.6%). LADA Vesta is the next with sales of 7,078 units (+ 5.7%). In the third position – there is KIA Rio (6,246 units; -5.1%). The Hyundai Сreta crossover (4,187 units; + 9.2%) ranks the fourth. In the fifth place of the rating there is Hyundai Solaris sedan (3,805 units; + 27.4%).

We should note that, in addition to the KIA Rio, other 6 models went "in the minus": KIA Sportage (-10%), Renault Duster (-6.9%), LADA 4x4 (-1%), LADA XRAY (-3.1 %), Volkswagen Tiguan (-0.3%), Nissan X-Trail (-11.9%). And the latter recorded the largest drop in sales in the TOP-20.