63% of sold cars in the Russian Federation have automatic transmissions. This is a record!

According to the assessment of the analytical agency AUTOSTAT, in the 1st quarter of 2020, almost 237 thousand cars with automatic transmission (AT) * were sold in Russia *. This represents 63% of total sales of new passenger cars.

According to agency experts, for the reporting period, sales of vehicles with ATs grew faster than the Russian market as a whole (+ 9% and + 2%, respectively). As a result, their share for the year increased immediately by 4 percentage points (in the 1st quarter of 2019, it was 59%). Recall that the market share of passenger cars with AT in our country for the last 4 years exceeded 50%, gradually approaching 60%. Now this line has been overcome, and the achieved indicator (63%) is a record.