The car market of Ukraine decreased by 3% in 2018

According to the analytic agency AUTOSTAT, the volume of the Ukrainian market of new passenger cars in 2018 amounted to 77.4 thousand units, which is less by 3.2% than a year before. At the same time, in December, 6.8 thousand cars were sold in Ukraine – less by 25% than the result of a year ago.

Last year, Japanese Toyota became the leader of the local market with 9.5 thousand sold cars, which is less by 0.3% than in 2017. In the second place there is the French Renault with an indicator of 9.4 thousand units (-0.2%). Experts noted that these two brands accounted for almost a quarter (24.3%) of the whole Ukrainian market of new cars. Japanese Nissan (5.4 thousand units), which showed the highest growth dynamics (+ 24.2%) of the TOP- ten of brands, also ranked among the top three. It is followed by the Czech Skoda (5.3 thousand units; -6.2%) and Korean Hyundai (4.8 thousand units; + 13.7%).

The crossover Renault Duster (3.4 thousand units; + 13.8%) became the best-selling car in the market of Ukraine, having displaced the leader of 2017 - KIA Sportage (3.1 thousand units; -15.8%) – to the second place. They are followed by Toyota RAV4 (2.5 thousand units; -10.5%), Renault Logan (2.4 thousand units; -15.8%) and Hyundai Tucson (2.2 thousand units; + 20.2%). Experts noted that more than a half of models included in the TOP-10 showed a positive dynamics for 2018, which was two-digit.