The market of new buses grew by 11% in Russia in 2018

According to the analytic agency AUTOSTAT, the volume of the Russian market of new buses (excluding LCV) in 2018 amounted to 13 thousand units, which is more by 10.7% than in January - December of 2017.

The leader of this market is still the Russian manufacturer of PAZ, the share of which in the reporting period was about 60% of the total. In quantitative terms, this amounts to 7,602 buses, which is at the level of the previous year. It should be noted that the TOP-three of the most popular buses in the Russian market in 2018 are domestic brands. So, the second place is occupied by LIAZ, the indicator of which was 1686 units (+ 14%), in the third place – there is NEFAZ (771 units; + 57%). The TOP-five is closed by the Belarusian MAZ (639 units; + 78%) and the domestic Volgabus (580 units; + 60%).

The most popular model of the bus market in our country remains the high-floor small class bus PAZ-3205, the result of which in 2018 was 3,755 units (+ 11%). At the second and third places there are also representatives of the Pavlovsk Plant - the small class bus PAZ-3204 (2532 units; + 1%) and the high-floor bus of the middle class PAZ-4234 (855 units; -2%). The TOP-five are closed by low-floor NEFAZ-5299 (771 units; + 54%) and LIAZ-5292 (719 units; + 4%).