"Vesta" became the most popular Russian car in the first half

20 August 2018

Not far behind, and "Grant"

The share of "AVTOVAZ" in the structure of sales of new cars in Russia is slowly but surely increasing. In 2018, the domestic company has more than 20% of the market just a few years, the figure seemed to be lost forever. Now the analytical Agency "AUTOSTAT" learned what cars of the Russian brands were most popular in the first half of 2018.

A total of six months has sold nearly 173 thousand new passenger cars of domestic brands. This is 20% more than a year ago. Leader in the tradition of "Lada". The best seller was the "Vesta": it was chosen by 49 635 buyers. Almost polutorakratnoe growth: 43.5 %. Almost not far behind, "Grant": a more budget model has sold 45 672 vehicles (growth by 8.8 %). Bronze is also the representative of "AVTOVAZ" — "Largus". The demand for practical universal immediately jumped 53.3 % to 20 989 machines.

It is noteworthy that further follow Lada: XRAY (16 of 388 machines, +6.1 %) and 4x4 (15 371 machine, +18 %).

Also in the top ten most popular Russian vehicles entered Kalina, (9 364 PCs; -4,3 %), "UAZ-Patriot" (6 PCs 505; and 2.8 %), Priora (6 468 PCs; -4,5 %), "UAZ-Pickup" (1 750 PCs.; +42,9 %) and "UAZ-hunter" (738 units; -8 %).