Russians spent a trillion rubles for the purchase of foreign cars

According to the assessment of the analytical agency AUTOSTAT, for 6 months of 2019, almost 598 thousand new passenger cars were sold in Russia. 1.06 trillion rubles were spent for their purchase, which is 90% of the total capacity of the Russian market.

KIA is the leader in this rating - products of Korean brand for the reporting period cost Russians 148 billion rubles. In the second place there is Japanese Toyota (119 billion rubles), and Korean brand Hyundai closes the TOP-three with an indicator of 107 billion rubles. In addition, Russian residents spent 87 and 81 billion rubles, respectively, for the purchase of new cars of German premium brands - Mercedes-Benz and BMW.

According to experts of the analytical agency AUTOSTAT, the five listed brands had more than a half (51%) of all the money that Russians spent for foreign cars in the 1H of 2019.