Sales of used cars through official dealers grew by 20% in 2019

According to the results of the previous year, official dealers sold 689 thousand used cars in Russia. This is 20% higher than in 2018. The experts of the analytical agency "AUTOSTAT" fixed such data based on the monitoring of of dealer networks of 60 brands officially represented in the Russian Federation. At the same time, the share of official dealers in the used car market for the year grew from 10.5% to 12.7%.

Thus, every eighth used car in our country is sold through dealer networks. At the same time, according to the agency experts, the age structure of the market as a whole and the dealer segment is different: while the segment “up to 7 years” occupies a little more than a quarter of the total re-registrations, then the share of such cars in dealer sales is more than a half and at the same time they have about 27% of all registrations of used cars of given age.

It is also worth noting that sales of used cars in dealer networks are growing amid falling sales of new cars (-2.5%). As a result, the ratio of used cars to new ones in the retail channel of official dealers reached 1: 2.