Russians spent 613 billion rubles for the purchase of premium-segment cars

In 2018, residents of Russia purchased a little more than 150 thousand new passenger cars of premium brands, by spending totally 613 billion rubles on this.

Most of the money in the premium segment it was spent on Mercedes-Benz cars - 162 billion rubles. In the second place in this ranking there is another premium brand from Germany - BMW (136 billion rubles). It is followed by a Japanese Lexus, the cars of which cost the Russians 99 billion rubles. The TOP-five of leaders also included Land Rover and Audi (58 and 56 billion rubles, respectively).

In addition to the listed brands, Volvo (28 billion rubles), Porsche (28 billion rubles) and Infiniti (16 billion rubles) are worth noting. But in 2018, it was spent less than 10 billion rubles on products of other premium brands.

According to the experts of the analytic agency AUTOSTAT, the premium segment in our country accounts for less than 10% of sales of new passenger cars. But due to very high weighted average prices, they occupy more than a quarter of the total market capacity.