Trucks and buses in January showed different vectors

The markets for new trucks and buses in January 2018 year showed multidirectional movement

Cargo market

According RAMR for Jan 2018 years truck sales with GVW over 6 tons in the whole supported last year's upward trend. So, the market for new trucks grew by the third (+33,4%) to the same period last year. Total sales of new trucks in Russia in this January amounted to 4,75 thousand

The share of KAMAZ brand fell one-third of the market, which can be considered an outright failure, as a year ago the figure of the Kama automobile plant was 45% of the market. The implementation of the KAMAZ trucks in the physical volumes on January 2018 fell 6.2 per cent.

Second place in the truck sales still belongs to the Gas. The brand was able to maintain its market share (13%) on the backdrop of the growing realization of lorries on the 37.8 per cent.

Pent-up demand for cars did their job and letter to the leaders of the market getting to close cars: Volvo, Scania, MAZ, MAN and Mercedes-Benz. The biggest piece of the pie among foreign truck brands was able to grab a Volvo, whose share of the Russian market amounted to 8.6%, and physical sales in 2018 January years jumped in 2.5 times.

Bus market

Opposite the freight market trend, to unfortunately, demonstrated the new bus market, whose sales declined in January 2% same period last year. January physical sales amounted to about 960 units.

Of course, that more than half of sales of new buses were the brand GROOVE. However, its implementation at the than the same period of January 2017 years have not changed, the sales of the second player on the market of buses – Lyase fell to third. The market share of the brand, the COMPANY was 15%.

Among the top 10 brands on the Russian market of buses the highest jump in sales (10 times!) showed Volgabus. Chinese Higer and Yutong also has completed a very successful January with multiple sales growth.

The leader of the growth of sales in the domestic avtomotostariny became NefAZ, whose sales grew by 3/4.