Trucks in August went downhill

August sales of trucks in Russia fell by 16.9%, but since the beginning of the year increased by 10.9%

According RAMR August this year was for sales of new trucks with GVW over 6 tons of the most depressing year – to-date registration fell by 16.9% over the same period last year, amounting to only 6.4 thousand



And yet for the first eight months of 2018, the market for new trucks in Russia is still growing by 10.4% to 50.0 thousand, However, broken the uptrend on the face.



  Accordingly, in January-August 2018 sales of trucks-foreign cars on the Russian market increased sharply by almost a quarter (+24%) compared to the same period in 2017, even surpassing the sales of domestic brands.



The registrations of the mass brand in the market of KAMAZ decreased by 2.9% to 16.6 million, and its market share declined to 33.2% against 37.7% for the same period last year.

KAMAZ is taking steps to increase the attractiveness of how the existing range K2, and the development of new generations of K4 and K5

Second place went to GAS sales growth of 3.6% to 5.8 thousand,

AZ GAS strong leader in the segment of srednetonnazhnye (MCV) – photo enhanced version of the Lawn NEXT 10t (C41RB3)

and the third Volvo with growth of more than a third (+35,5%) to 4.2 thousand

Volvo Trucks has steadily moved into third place on the Russian market and the leader among foreign brands

On 4-th place – Scania +24.1 percent to 3.6 thousand and 5-m – MAN with a +15.4% to 3.0 thousand
However, in addition to KAMAZ in January–August, only two more brand of the Top 10, specifically, Mercedes-Benz and DAF showed a negative dynamics of sales, respectively, 3.4% and 4.8%. Naturally, their market share decreased, respectively, by 0.8% and 0.6%.

Dutch brand DAF despite upgrading the line (and maybe that's why) on the Russian market dipped