Sales of Chinese cars in Russia grow for the second month in a row

In September 2022, Russians bought 12,000 new Chinese-made cars, which is 8% higher than in the same month of last year. This is reported by the experts of the agency "AUTOSTAT" with reference to the data of JSC "PPK"*. It should be also noted that the “Chinese” are growing for the second month in a row (in August - by 20%), while the Russian car market continues its decline. Recall that in September it decreased by 60% (by September 2021), which you can learn more about here. Against this background, the market share of Chinese brands continues to increase. If at the beginning of the year it was about 10%, then in September it already reached 27%. In other words, the share of "Chinese" in the Russian car market has grown almost 3 times.

The share of 90% of all new Chinese passenger cars purchased in the first month of autumn belonged to 4 brands. Chery is the leader with a score of 3850 units, which corresponds to about one third of the total. In second place there is Haval (3176 units), Geely is the third one (2780 units). Let's also note EXEED (1283 units), which also managed to overcome the thousandth mark. But the volume of purchases of the rest of the "Chinese" in September was less than 300 units. In the ranking of the most popular models from China, Chery Tiggo 7 PRO takes the lead this time, which was purchased in September in the amount of 2224 units.

But the most popular "Chinese" car according to the results of August – Haval Jolion (2070 pieces) fell to the second position. Geely Coolray finished the TOP-three with 1426 cars. Each of the remaining Chinese models had a market volume of less than 1,000 units.

* JSC "PPK" ("Passport Industrial Consulting") is a joint venture of JSC "Electronic Passport" and LLC "AUTOSTAT".