Sales of luxury cars are falling in Russia for the second consecutive month

According to the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", the volume of the market of new luxury cars 2018 was 118 units in Russia in August. It is less by 1% than a year ago. It is worth noting that the luxury car market is falling for the second month in a row, and the decline was significantly in July (-7%).

About a half of the luxury sold cars is presented traditionally by one model - the Mercedes-Benz Maybach S-Class. In August, the figure was 58 units. Further in the list of preferences of Russians there is a brand Maserati (23 units), behind which there are Bentley and Lamborghini (14 sold units of each brand). In addition, for the last month in Russia, there were bought 5 new Rolls-Royce cars, 3 units - Ferrari and 1 unit - Aston Martin.

The capital accounted for about 60% of the Russian luxury car market - in August Muscovites purchased 69 such cars. In the suburbs, 13 luxury cars were bought, and in St. Petersburg - 11. Among the non-capital regions, the most luxurious cars were sold in the Krasnodar Territory (4 units). Two such cars were added to the parc of Primorsky Territory, Yekaterinburg and Tula regions. In another 15 regions of the Russian Federation, by one luxury car was bought.

Experts of the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT" also noted that by the results of 8 months of 2018 the market of new luxury cars in the Russian Federation shows a negative trend. So, during this period, 936 such cars were sold, which is less by 1.5% than in January-August of the previous year.