Chinese brands growing in popularity at the Russian dealers

20 June 2018

The number of Russian sellers of automotive brands from China exceeded six hundred

 According RAMR in June 2018 609 official Russian dealerships spetsializiruyutsya on sales of cars of Chinese brands, accounting for 18% of the total number of dealerships in the country.



Today in the Russian market officially implemented the following Chinese automobile brands: Brilliance, Changan, Chery, Dongfeng (DFM), FAW, Foton, Geely, Haval, Hawtai, Hower, Lifan and Zotye. The most extensive network of sellers has brand Lifan – she has 109 dealerships. On the second place by the number of dealers is brand Chery – 83 centre.



The third place brand DW Hower, who actually replaced on the Russian market, Great Wall brand, which is sold through 76 showrooms.



The most dense network of dealers of Chinese brands accounted for the Central part of Russia: more than half of the dealers are concentrated in the Central and Volga Federal districts. Most of the key regions for Chinese brands are Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Samara region, republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, Krasnodar Krai, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Moscow region, Krasnoyarsk Krai.

It is not paradoxical, but just emphasizes the focus of Chinese manufacturers for implementation in our country of new cars, while the far East and Siberia are guided on second-hand equipment from Japan (RHD). By the way, export the car second hand from China at all far-sighted banned by Beijing, which, of course, in the long term and led the Chinese auto industry to the current relatively calm situation on the Russian market. However, the secondary market of Chinese vehicles including passenger cars in Russia exists and is expanding from year to year, but only due to the equipment sold in the primary market, i.e., used new.