Whose SUV's younger Japanese, or Korean?

15 July 2019

RAMR compared the age of the fleet of Japanese and Korean SUVs in Russia

According to Russian Automotive Market Research (RAMR) on January 1, 2019 fleet of SUVs and crossovers (SUV) in Russia consisted of 9.9 million cars. The Russian fleet SUVs the largest share at 36.1% still accounts for the Japanese brands. Korean brands, respectively, occupy about 11.8% of the fleet of SUV's.

Park SUV the Japanese brands were also more age: the share of cars aged up to 5 years accounted for 27.6% of the Park. In this case, off-road vehicles under 5 years account for a major share of 40% of the Park Korean brands.
As for the older cars, older than 20 years, the Park Japanese SUV they amount to 9.7%, and in the Park of the Korean – only 1.3%.

PS This is not surprising, because the Japanese have been supplied mainly expensive Toyota (the RAV4 and various model series Land Cruiser) and Mitsubishi Pajero, the Koreans, particularly EN masse to the Russian market with crossovers in recent years due to the localization in our country. So, Hyundai Grand stands 4th or 5th new model in the automotive market in General. Among Japanese SUVs are quite a lot of RHD, grey and black victims were mainly via the far East. Hence such a large percentage of older machines.