Some Chinese brands choose the Russians

28 June 2019

The ranking of Chinese brands in Russia for five years has changed

Alexander Klimov, photo by the author and I. Gorfine

The invasion of Chinese in the Russian car industry says quite a lot, however, are predicting a tsunami on our market in reality it did not collapse. Eloquently it follows from the statistical review RAMR devoted specifically to the preferences of domestic buyers in the segment of Chinese brands.

GAC stand for St. Petersburg international auto show in April 2019 (PMS-2019)

So, in January-may 2019 Chinese brands took only 1,69% of the total Russian market for new cars.

Today we can say that the peak sales of Chinese passenger cars fell on the already quite distant in 2013, when their market share was 3.74%. Starting in 2016, the share of Chinese brands was less than 2%, continuing to decline slowly.

Crossover GAC GS3

The most popular brand in the first five months of 2019 became Geely with a share among Chinese brands at 28.4%.

The Geely stand at the St. Petersburg international auto show in April 2019

Interestingly, before the leader of the brand was in 2013.

Crossover Lifan Myway

Over a sufficiently long period, the most popular passenger cars brand Lifan. So, in 2018 he took a share of 39.1% of the market of the new Chinese cars.

The Haval concept at the Moscow international motor show in 2018 (MAS-2019)

Brand SUVs such as the Great Wall was in the Top 5 for sales "Chinese" until 2017. In 2018, the company GW replaced it with more premium brand Haval, which is too quickly gained popularity among Russians. So, in January-may of 2019 cars Haval quite confident is among the Chinese brands ' share at 24.5%.

Crossover JAC S5

PS Over the past three years in the lines of Chinese brands in the Russian market remained mainly crossovers-SUV with drive only to the front wheels. All the other models, including conventional cars and pickups left in the shade and are present in our market purely nominal. New here to remember is that the Geely Emgrand 7 Belarusian Assembly.

Sedan Geely Emgrand7 Belarusian Assembly