Pick-UPS and LCVs in Russia sank in the first quarter

11 April 2019

The market for trucks and LCVs for January-March 2019 fell by 4.7%

 According RAMR in the first quarter of 2019 sales of new light commercial vehicles (LCVs) and pickups decreased by 4.7% compared to the same period in 2018 and amounted to 25,29 thousand

During the period under review the sales have declined as domestic producers and foreign.

  the Leader of the market of new LCV – AZ GAS sold of 10.58 thousand of light commercial vehicles, which is 3.6% less than in the first quarter of last year. Coming in second place, domestic brand UAZ has reduced sales in January-March by 1.8% to 4.97 thousand
At the same time, sales of LCVs have Ford – the leader of the Russian market of new LCV of foreign brands, on the contrary, increased by 17.6% to 2.6 thousand.
  
In addition to Ford positive dynamics of new LCV sales showed another five brands, including Volkswagen (12.7 percent, to 1.51 million)

Toyota (5%, to 0.63 million), the domestic vis (5.6% to 0,38 million), Renault (46,7%, to 0.22 million) and Hyundai (5.6% to 0,19 million). this relatively high growth from Renault due to the success of his new utility van Dokker (by the way, pure imported). The greatest fall in sales marked the brand Mercedes-Benz – 46,9% (to 0.77 million), followed by the Fiat (-39,5%, to 0.23 million) and Mitsubishi (-25,8%, to 0.49 million). The latter decline occurred because of the change of generations of his pickup L200.

The share of Top 15 brands of LCVs and pickups had 25,08 thousand, which is 4.7% worse than in the first quarter of 2018. The share of other brands accounted for only 0,21 thousand Their decline is also accounted for 4.7%.
The drop in the LCV market due to the reduction of state programmes of support and General slowdown of the income growth, as well as the active procurement of the end of last year in anticipation of rising VAT.