Sales of premium cars grew by 9% in October

According to the estimation of the analytic agency “AUTOSTAT”, in October of 2018, the sales of premium cars in Russia were 13,109 units, which is more by 9% than a year ago. At the same time, the premium segment shows a larger growth than the whole Russian market (+ 8%).

German Mercedes-Benz remains the sales leader here, the figure for which during the reporting period was 3,300 passenger cars, which is more by 3% than in October of 2017. Another German brand, BMW (3,105 units), is slightly behind, which increased the sales of cars by 21%. The TOP- three is closed by Japanese Lexus (1,742 units), which showed a drop of 15%. The German Audi (1 478 units; + 2%) overcomes the mark of a thousand sold units.

According to the experts of the analytic agency AUTOSTAT, the overwhelming majority of premium brands (11 out of 14) in October demonstrate a positive trend. And Jeep (+ 132%) and Genesis (+ 116%) succeeded better than others here, sales of which more than doubled. But in addition to the already mentioned Lexus, there were also in the "minus" Cadillac (-5%) and Smart (-78%) cars.