The market for new pickups and LCVs in February have not dipped

13 March 2019

In January-February 2019 the sales of new pickup trucks and LCV fell by 1.5%

According RAMR in January-February 2019 the market for new light commercial vehicles (LCV) and "primacoustic to them" pickups declined only 1.5% to January-February of 2018, reaching 16,05 thousand this was mainly due to the drawdown in January (affected by the VAT rise), but February last year same month sales weren't too far behind.

Domestic brands LCVs felt in February, noticeably more confident than foreign cars due to the significant price escalation in new (20%) VAT, while domestic manufacturers in the beginning of the year we could rely on the state program of preferential lending and leasing, as well as the payment of the recycling fee.

For the first two months of this year, the position of the market leader – AL GAS will not be shaken – the volume of realization of light commercial vehicles made up 6.66 million (+0.2 percent). The brand's share on the market (in the segment of pickups he was not present) rose to 41.5%. The leader of sales remained "GAZelle NEXT" with a 3.4 million (+1,8%), it again tightened the old series "GAZelle BUSINESS" with 2.3 million (+12%), that just speaks of the importance of state support programmes and closed listing sales Gas series "Sobol BUSINESS" with 0.8 million (-7,6%).
Next is the Russian brand UAZ, whose sales in January-February increased by 1.2% and amounted to 3.36 million, and growth mainly came from the mass of Ulyanovsk "loaves" and "tadpoles" utility model "Farmer" (UAZ-3909) with more than 2-fold increase (to 1.1 million) on the background of a much more sluggish demand for other products commercial series. New lorry UAZ Profi grew by moderate 16% to 0.4 thousand, and the utilitarian pickup and UAZ cargo has actually left the market, while pomolodevshimi "sports and recreation" UAZ Pickup with 0.9 million (+17%) sales even more sure to hold the palm in the pickup segment, in spite of famous cars Toyota Hilux (0.39 thousand, -7,1%) and Mitsubishi L200 (0,34 thousand, zero %).
Sales of the Ford brand – the leader of the Russian market of LCV new-cars jumped by an impressive 22.8 per cent to 1.56 million In the period under review, the proportion of brand in the market increased by 1.9% and amounted to 9.7%. The lion's share of sales has taken a series of Transit with the implementation of over 1.5 million (+25%). The growth of the domestic brands of pickup trucks vis 19% to 0.25 thousand is associated with the development of a restyled model 2390.

The growth leader in the Top 15 LCV brands and pickups was the Hyundai brand from 0.16 million (+60%), for which lorry and HD35 HD35 City collected on Kaliningrad "avtotore".
The highest failure (44%) have experienced the brands Mercedes-Benz (to 0.51 million), who reportedly stopped because of the threat of sanctions the Assembly series MB Sprinter Classic (0,26 million, -67%) on Gas, and Fiat (to 0.14 million), whose Zdorovie series LCV Ducato (0,08 million, -57%) and pick-up Fullback (0,03 THD, -30%) are all less demand.
All other brands of LCVs and pickups outside the Top 15 experienced a decline by 21.4% to 0.11 thousand