For the Russian car market in January 2019 were unexpectedly nepravelny

6 February 2019

AEB stated growth in sales of cars and LCVs 0.6%

Today published data of automobile manufacturers Committee AEB, sales of cars and LCV (up to 3.5 t total mass, but in some cases up to 5.0 t) for January, showing that the Russian market is preserved, albeit small, but growing!
Chairman of automobile manufacturers Committee AEB, Mr. Joerg Schreiber said in this regard: "In January the car market remained above 100,000 units, demonstrating a slight increase of 0.6% compared to the same month last year. This is a positive result, especially given the increase in the VAT rate by 2% from 1 January."
Indeed, all the experts were afraid of the collapse of the market in connection with the new increased to 20% VAT, so the pre-new year boom "preventive" purchases of cars that could just bring down the market, especially in the traditionally short due to long new year holidays in January. However, the return of the barrel to above $60 per barrel, and the stabilization of the ruble to the dollar has brought customers back to the dealerships, and the increase in prices due to VAT increase was quite moderate, for example, the sales of AVTOVAZ it is not affected.
So, in January it was sold for 600 cars more than the same period in 2018, which amounted to 103 064 car.

The Top 10 brands for January would be only two, but four showed double-digit percent growth! The growth leader was the BMW with +28% (up to 2630 units), just broke into the "top ten" on 9-th place.
The balance of power in the top three brands has not changed – leadership, of course, left with the LADA 21 531 units (+3%), second place for KIA 15 691 units (+2%), and third in the Hyundai with 10 843 units (+24% and 2nd place for growth among the leaders), which is markedly accelerated and caught up to the leaders, which is firmly secured a "bronze". Well, if will continue at the same pace, and then be able to switch places with the "competitor-relative" KIA. Next, in 4th place were Renault with 7799 units (-1%), rounded out the top five market leaders Volkswagen with 6200 units (+11%). On the 6th seat Skoda with 5536 units (+23%), 7th – Toyota 5320 units (+3%), but survivors at the 8th place Nissan with 5003 units fell 7%. Rounded out the Top-10 GAS with LCV, which sold 2601 units (+1%). By the way, who took 13th place domestic UAZ with 1940 units showed a minimal, but an increase of 0.3% (+5 units).
The absolute leader of growth is a premium Korean brand Genesis with the increase of 3.8% to 182 units, followed by the Chinese with growth of 3.2% to 395 units increase by a factor of 2.3 times showed the American Jeep – up to 144 units and 2.1 times, the Swedish Volvo with 198 units Almost 2-fold increase (99% to 357 units) have also shown the brand Haval, only deploys its own production in Russia.
However, a lot of brands on the market was in negative territory, although they are mainly grouped at the bottom of the listing. Of the most notable losses remains Uzbek Ravon, and not returned to the market after last summer, but in last year's January natorgovali 1470 cars. 93% (to a paltry 3 cars) fell, and so did not Shine Korean SsangYong (last year the brand showed a flagship SUV Rexton 4, and gave it to the Russian market).
The group AVTOVAZ-Renault-Nissan total still dropped slightly (-0.2 percent) and took a slightly smaller share of the Russian market – 34.6% versus 34.9 percent a year earlier.

In the ranking of the Top 25 models, the leaders are the two series LADA: Granta (7630 units and +43,6%) and Vesta (7078 units and +5.7 per cent).

In third place was maintained KIA Rio with 6246 units, despite the decline in sales of 5.1%. Fourth and fifth places also habitually took the two models of Hyundai – Creta crossover with 4187 units (+9,2%) and sedan Solaris 3805 units (+27.4 per cent), which obviously is well dispersed throughout the fleet sales for taxi companies and car sharing. In absolute numbers greatly subsided Chevrolet Niva – on 398 units or 22.7% (up to 1354 units – 24-e a place) due to price escalation after the updates at the end of last year, the transport vehicle type approval, which is now airbag, ABS and, of course, the system of ERA-GLONASS included in the normal equipment. While the LADA 4x4 is doing well in 11th place with 2048 units (-1%) and the LADA Largus on the 9th with 2375 units (+4.7 percent), but XRAY dipped slightly – 1853 units (-3.1%) to 14th place.
Experts predict the market in 2019 as weak (less than 5%) and moderate (10%) growth, but it will depend on the vagaries of world oil prices and other factors, including the stiffness of the anti-Russian sanctions..