After October failure The Russian new car market has returned to the slow recovery seen in the previous four months. According to the agency Autostat, in November, 51,525 new passenger cars were registered (this includes both official and “parallel” sales). This is immediately 19% more than in October, when only 43,308 new cars were registered. However, when compared with the result of November 2021, demand still fell by almost half (by 48.8%).
Top 25 brands in the new passenger car market in November 2022 (pcs.)
The share of Lada continues to grow, and in November it already reached 41%. During the month, 21,107 cars were sold, and this is more than in November 2021, albeit by a symbolic 1.1%. But if then Vesta, and Largus, and XRAY were on the conveyor, now more than half of the sales fell on a simple Grant: 12,780 cars per month. Vesta is still in the top ten bestsellers (stocks in warehouses turned out to be large), Larguses are also on sale, but XRAY has almost disappeared from car dealerships.
After Lada, the Chinese brands Chery (5,537 cars), Haval (4,467) and Geely (3,351) occupied a dense group in the sales ranking. The backlog from the leader is still large, but the “Koreans” have already been thrown back, and so far they have no chance of regaining their positions. And Exeed showed the biggest increase over the past year: 1609 cars were sold, that is, more than four times more than in November last year.
Top 25 models in the new passenger car market in November 2022 (pcs.)
The same picture in the rating of models. The top ten is entirely Lada and Chinese crossovers. The most popular foreign car is Chery Tiggo 7 Pro (3192 units), which is in third place, and Kia Sportage among non-Chinese models with a total of 706 cars. In general, Chinese cars accounted for 31% of all sales in November – and this is a new record.
In just eleven months of 2022, almost 570,000 new passenger cars were sold in Russia. This is 59% less than in the same period last year. That is, according to the results of the whole year, the market volume will be approximately 620 thousand cars.
