Renault Kaptur entered the TOP- three of leaders of capital SUV markets in October

Experts of the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT" conducted a study of the market of new crossovers and off-road vehicles in Moscow and St. Petersburg by the results of October 2018 and identified the most popular such models.

The volume of the Moscow SUV market in the last month was 10.5 thousand units, which is more by 24% than a year ago. Hyundai Creta remains the market leader in this segment, with 686 Muscovites (-4%) in October. Renault Kaptur moved up to the second place with a score of 629 units (2.7 times increase). The TOP-5 of the Moscow market of new crossovers and SUVs for the reporting period also included: Volkswagen Tiguan (544 units; -1%), Skoda Kodiaq (534 units; an increase of 9.5 times) and Nissan X-Trail (516 units; + 43%).

In St. Petersburg, the volume of the SUV market in October of this year reached 4.9 thousand units (+ 14%). As in Moscow, Hyundai Creta is the leader in this segment of the St. Petersburg market (410 units; -14%). The second place also belongs to Renault Kaptur here (283 units; + 39%), which occupied it after a long time. On the third place there is Mitsubishi Outlander (266 units; + 9%), and Volkswagen Tiguan (250 units; + 13%) and Renault Duster (230 units; -12%) closed the TOP-five of the market leaders of new crossovers and SUVs in the northern capital in October.

Experts of the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT" noted that in September the Renault Kaptur crossover was not even included in the TOP-5 of SUV market either in Moscow or St. Petersburg, and in October this model took the second place in this rating of both capital cities.