The Russian car market fell by 2.3% in 2019

Sales of cars and light commercial vehicles grew by 2.3% to 179 thousand cars in Russia in December. At the end of 2019, the Russian car market reached 1 million 759 thousand cars (-2.3%), according to the Association of European Businesses. As AEB predicted, in 2020 sales of passenger and light commercial vehicles in Russia will continue to fall with 1.72 million units, it is lower by 2.1% than in the previous year.

The leadership in the Russian car market is held by AvtoVAZ, which sold 362,356 LADA cars in 2019 (+ 1%). KIA is the second one - the sale of 225,901 cars (-1%) provided the Korean brand with the leadership in the market of foreign cars. Hyundai is the third one with 178,809 sold cars, which corresponds to the level of a year ago. Renault follows - cars of this brand were chosen by 144,989 buyers (+ 6%). Volkswagen finishes the top 5, with 104,484 sold cars (-2%).

By the results of 2019, the TOP-10 of the best-selling brands also included Toyota (103,597 units, -5%), Skoda (88,609 units, + 9%), Nissan (64,974 units, -20%), GAZ (63,910 units, + 5%) and Mercedes-Benz (42,046 units, + 11%).