New LCV and pick-up in 2018 exceeded 120 thousand

25 January 2019

The market for trucks and LCVs grew up in 2018 2.2%

According RAMR sales of new light commercial vehicles (LCV) and "joined them" pickups (Pickups) at the end of 2018 grew by 2.2% in comparison to 2017 year and amounted to 120,75 million With fourth quarter growth rate (but not the actual value of sales) were in the negative zone, due to the relatively high base last year, in addition, in December the growth in actual sales was quite high due to the upcoming increase of VAT by 2%.
Occupying the largest market share of new LCV (40,5%) AZ GAZ (photo on the splash screen) in 2018 the period under review boosted sales to 48.88 million (+2.2 per cent).

Despite the growing interest in the lorry Pro (recently upgraded) sales of UAZ in General are falling

In second place is traditionally UAZ (the share is 17.8%) with a drop in sales of 10.4% to 21.52 thousand

Timely update UAZ Truck model has allowed it to keep leading in its segment 

But the Ford Transit Elabuga Assembly feels on the Russian LCV market perfectly

Leading in the LCV segment-cars Ford (the proportion of the total market – of 9.5%) increased sales by 30.5% to 11.52 thousand Fourth place went to LADA (share of 7.1%) with a decline of 2.5% to 8.56 million (only vans Largus and vis pickups are considered separately), and rounded out the Top 5 Volkswagen +9.6% to 7.44 thousand (market share of 6.2%). Leader in sales growth has become the brand of Renault (13th place) with sales growth of more than 3 times up to 0.99 THD Largest drop in the Top 15 showed FIAT (12th place) from 47.8% to 1.19 thousand in addition, among the Top 15 new LCV and pickups showed negative sales dynamics – Mercedes-Benz, Toyota (Hilux pickup truck only), Citroen, and Isuzu.

Mitsubishi L200 was in 2018, the second in the market for new pickups

Like the Mitsubishi L200 pickup truck its competitor Toyota Hilux (3rd place among the pickups) is the only representative of LCV+Pickups from their brand

    a Leader in the implementation of the new LCV and pickups in the country remains Moscow market which rose 4.4% to 17.49 thousand followed by Moscow oblast from 10.81 million (+3.7%) and Saint Petersburg from 7.99 million (+5.4 percent). Fourth place in the Krasnodar region (thousand of 4.72 +9%), and the five regions of Tatarstan closes (3.8 thousand, of-2.1%). The largest increase was observed in Tyumen region – by 18.8% to 1.77 million, the largest drop – in the Rostov region – 14.2%.