The prices of new cars continue to grow: they have jumped by 7 %

3 December 2018

The Russians will have to pay more for the car

Russians have long been accustomed to the constant rise in prices for new cars. 2018 is no exception: reports of increase in prices came out with clockwork regularity. Now the more detailed statistics published by the analytical Agency "AUTOSTAT". In the first 10 months of 2018 the weighted average price of a new passenger car in Russia amounted to 1.42 million rubles. Is by 7% more than in January–October 2017.

However, in this case the growth is not taken into account for comparable models, namely weighted average price. It can match with the average rise in price on the market, and can greatly differ from him: it all depends on what machine and in what quantity bought by the Russians.

the Average price of new cars increased to 1.64 million rubles. For the average domestic car was paying more than half — 623 thousand rubles.

Curious looks breakdown of the price growth for the brands. Faster just the average price increased are not premium brands, and Geely. For the first ten months of 2018, it jumped by 43.2 %. Almost in half!

Also grew rapidly in the price tags of Peugeot (+29.2%) and Infiniti (+21.3 per cent). Still have five grades weighted average price is in the range of 10-17 %. It includes Skoda, Lifan, Volvo, KIA and Ford. 21 brand the average price rose less than 10 %.

it is Noteworthy that the average price of the vehicle sold, some brands even decreased. This trend was observed in Zotye (-9,6 %), Jaguar (-3 %), Subaru (-1.2 %) and Honda (-1,1 %). Experts attribute this to changes in the structure of sales.