Sales of new passenger cars almost tripled in April

In April 2023, 75.6 thousand new passenger cars were sold in Russia, experts of AUTOSTAT agency reported with reference to the data of JSC "PPK"*. This is 8% higher than in March, and 2.7 times higher than in April 2022. Such a sharp increase is explained by the low base effect. 44% of all sold cars last month accounted for Chinese brands, which is 33.2 thousand units. Domestic brands own 35% of the total, i.e. 26.7 thousand cars. The total share of other market participants ("Koreans", "Japanese", "Europeans", "Americans") in April was 21%.

Despite the leadership of "Chinese", representatives of domestic auto industry still excel among brands and models. Thus, according to the results of April, the brand rating is headed by LADA (with a share of 33.4%), and the model rating is led by LADA Granta (24.3%). Chery remains the best brand among foreign ones, and Geely Coolray crossover became the most popular foreign model this time.

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