In Russia, sales of diesel cars are falling

According to the estimation of the analytic agency “AUTOSTAT”, by the results of the 1st quarter of 2019, 29.5 thousand new passenger cars equipped with a diesel engine were sold in Russia. It is less by 3% than in January - March of the last year. Thus, according to agency experts, the market share of diesel passenger cars for the year fell from 8.3% to 8%.

When buying such cars, Russians give the greatest preference to BMW - for three months they were bought by 6.5 thousand German-made cars equipped with diesel engines (+ 29%). The second place in this ranking is occupied by Toyota (4.3 thousand units; -27%), the third - by Mercedes-Benz (3.3 thousand units; + 25%). The TOP-five also included Mitsubishi (2.6 thousand units; -16%) and KIA (2 thousand units; -17%).