Russian market of new LCVs grew by 2% in February

According to the analytic agency AUTOSTAT, the volume of the Russian market of new light commercial vehicles (LCV) in February of 2019 amounted to slightly more than 8 thousand units, which is more by only 1.9% than the result of a year ago.

The leader of the LCV market remains the domestic brand GAZ, the share of which accounted for about 45% of the total volume in the last month. In quantitative terms, it amounts to 3.6 thousand units, which is less by 1.7% than a year ago. In the second place there is the domestic UAZ, the market volume of which, on the contrary, grew by 19.1% up to 1.5 thousand units. American Ford is still in the third place of the rating with a score of 893 cars (+ 19.1%). Russian LADA with an indicator of 812 cars takes the fourth place, also by showing the growth (+ 16.3%). The TOP-5 of leaders of light commercial vehicle market in February included German Volkswagen with a score of 370 cars (+ 11.1%).

Experts of the analytic agency “AUTOSTAT” also noted that in January – February of 2019 the volume of light commercial vehicle market amounted to 15.1 thousand units, by showing an increase of 1.2% to the YOY basis.