“We believe that the total car sales market in Russia should close this year at the level of 1 million, more or less. This is a significant increase compared to 2022,” he said.
Earlier, the association forecast the growth of the car market up to 770 thousand cars.
Yesterday it became known that sales of new cars in Russia in June increased by 2.5 times compared to June last year – to 82.4 thousand units, in the first half of the year – by 14% – to 401.6 thousand units.
30% of the cars sold in the first month of summer are Lada – 23,700 cars. Chery is in second place (10,080), Haval is third (8,270), Geely is fourth (6,900), Changan closes the top five with 3,490 cars.
According to the June results, the best-selling model in Russia remains the Lada Granta, which was chosen by 15,876 buyers (an increase of 4.7 times), Avtostat reports. The leader among SUV models was the Haval Jolion crossover, which sold 4,734 copies (an increase of 5.7 times).