New LCV and pick-UPS, complementing each other, pulling the market up

26 November 2018

The market of light commercial vehicles and pickups for the first 10 months of 2018 grew by 5.6%

According RAMR, traditionally bringing together data on the sales of new light commercial vehicles (LCVs) and pickups, this segment of the market has grown for ten months of 2018 5.6% over the same period in 2017, reaching 97,0 thousand
In the Top-10 brands in new light commercial vehicles in January-October 2018 the largest share of the market traditionally is a GAS – its share amounted to 41.1%. Accordingly, sales of LCV of the brand Nizhny Novgorod (series "Sobol BUSINESS", "BUSINESS GAZelle" and "GAZelle NEXT") for the period rose 6.4% to 39.9 thousand

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the GAZ "Sobol", gained additional popularity due to all-wheel drive versions

 the Second number in the Russian market of LCV (Oise "commercial series" model-UAZ cargo) and No. 1 in the market of trucks (UAZ Pickup) – the Ulyanovsk automobile plant, by contrast, has lost 11.5% of sales, and its market share fell to 17.4% compared with 20.8% a year earlier.

New lorry UAZ Pro acquires special model (pictured reanimation from bodybuilder "motorhome"), but not yet able to replace traditional commercial series "loaves" and "tadpoles"

But UAZ Pickup is a leader in the pickup segment, in particular due to frequent upgrades (in the photo model 2019)

The leader of the Russian market of LCV new-cars – American brand Ford (series, Transit, Transit Connect and Transit/Tourneo Custom) for 10 months has increased its sales by 40.3% to 8.7 million, respectively, taking third place in the market by 9% against 6.7% for the same period last year.

The popularity of the Ford Transit in largely due to the increasingly wide range of special versions how, for example, the ambulance

In fourth place is the Russian brand LADA, which offers on the market like the popular series the van LADA Largus F90, and with a share of 7.1% of the market with growth of 3% to 6.9 thousand

Brand LADA became 4-m in the LCV market thanks to the van LADA Largus F90 (photo version of the Cub, and behind the van vis-23462)

In the fifth place brand Volkswagen NFZ with lots of T6 models (Transporter, Multivan and Caravelle), 4 Caddy and Crafter 2 occupied 6% (5.8% in 2017) with an increase by 9.4% to 5.8 thousand

Reanimation create, as a rule, on the basis of new models of LCV (right to left): VW Crafter 2, GAZelle NEXT, VW Caddy 4 and Citroen Jumpy (twin Peugeot Boxer/ Traveller)

  the New generation of the VW Crafter 2 continues to gain popularity, including new modifications, including medical.  
Sixth place went to the Mercedes-Benz brand (series Sprinter Classic (build AZ GAS), Sprinter New (imported), Vito/V-class Citan and pick-up X-class) with a market share of 5.6% (5.7% in 2017) with an increase of 3.8% to 5.4 thousand

Collected in Nizhny Novgorod Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Classic has stable demand, but in recent years has risen

At the 7th place with the only Mitsubishi model L200 pickup truck with a market share of 2.4% versus 1% from a year earlier and a growth of 2.6 times.

Pick-up Mitsubishi L200 the fifth generation, returned to the Russian market, and recently underwent a small facelift

8 – Toyota sales decline by 17.9% to 2.3 million (also the only model of pickup truck Hilux) took the market only 2.4% (against 3.1% a year earlier).

Former best-selling market for trucks and Toyota Hilux tries to hook fans tuning versions

On the 9th place of the French Peugeot with a growth of 11.8% to 1.9 million (due to localization of Assembly model Boxer/Traveller).
Rounded out the Top 10 pickups of the mark vis models 2346 (4x4) and 2349 (4x2) and a Cub special model of LADA Largus van – with a growth of 15.4% to 1.5 million, increasing its share to 1.5% against 1.4% a year earlier..