Sales of cars with a manual gearbox are falling in Russia

The experts of the analytic agency “AUTOSTAT” came to this conclusion. So, according to the results of the first quarter of this year, 152 thousand new cars, equipped with a manual transmission, were sold in our country. It is less by 8% than in January - March of the last year. Thus, according to agency experts, the market share of cars with "mechanics" for the year fell from 45.2% to 41.3%, i.e. by almost 4 percentage points.

When buying such cars, Russians give the most preference to LADA - for three months they purchased 74.4 thousand cars of the domestic brand, equipped with MT (+ 5%). The second place in this ranking is occupied by the French brand Renault (20.6 thousand units; -15%), followed by Korean Hyundai (9.3 thousand units; -5%) and KIA (8.7 thousand units; -thirty%). The Czech Skoda (6 thousand units; -16%) closes the TOP-five there.