Dynamics of Russian automotive market in June 2019

In the first summer month, the automotive market in Russia declined by 3.3% compared to June 2018. At the same time, the market decline is registered only in the mass segment, where sales decreased by 3.2%. The premium segment, on the contrary, increased (+ 2.2%). New vehicle sales in the mass segment came up to 131,909 vehicles, which is 90.7% of the total market. We should mention that only 9 brands in the TOP-25 had positive dynamics. Haval had the best result here; its sales grew 4.4 times.

Geely moved to the second place in terms of growth - almost 4 times increase. American Ford (+ 42.8%) and German Volkswagen (+ 5.7%) should be mentioned among the major market players.
As for 16 brands with negative dynamics the maximum sales decline is retained by Chinese Lifan and Japanese Honda (-75.1% and -66.4%, respectively). Sales of Zotye, Citroen, Chevrolet and Nissan declined by more than 25% in June. We should mention that the largest automakers - Russian LADA (-2%), Korean KIA (-2.6%) and Hyundai (-0.6%) – started to sell fewer vehicles as well.

The demand for premium-segment vehicles came up to 13,524 vehicles last month, which is 9.3% of the market. One half (7 out of 14) of the brands here have negative dynamics, while the other half increase their sales.

The market of Smart decreased more than twice (-67.6%), Jaguar lost almost a quarter (-23%). Lexus and Land Rover reduced their sales by not less than 10% as compared to June 2018.
American Jeep (+ 31.6%) has the maximum positive dynamics in the premium segment. Over 10% sales growth was registered by BMW (+ 15.2%), Porsche (+ 14.1%) and Volvo (+ 11.8%).