Russian LCV market in the first half grew moderately

The LCV market showed an increase of 6.5%, but in June dipped by 1%

According RAMR demand for new light commercial vehicles up to 3.5 t (LCV and pick-up) in June 2018 fell by 1.0% compared to the same month in 2017 and amounted to 9.6 thousand In the first half of 2018, the demand, by contrast, grew by 6.5% to 57.7 thousand.



The largest market share in the first six months of 2018 has traditionally taken domestic brand GAS from 41.2%, respectively, and the growth of its sales has increased by 10.2% to 23.8 million, which is due to the continued expansion of the model line with fresh series of "GAZelle NEXT".

Line series models "GAZelle NEXT" continues to grow, which allowed the GAZ brand is a confident leader on the LCV market

Sales of the second largest domestic player in the LCV market – the Ulyanovsk automobile plant (UAZ), in contrast, continue to fall.

Despite the cheapness of the "Commercial series" UAZ continues to lose fans

So, in January-June 2018 were sold 10.2 thousand cars of this brand.

Although the UAZ Pickup became the most popular in its segment, the overall failure of the UAZ he was unable to prevent

 Even taking into account the fact that the model UAZ Pickup was in the lead in its segment, but sales of new lorry UAZ "Pro" is still not growing rapidly), which is 20.9% less than in the same period last year.

Lorry UAZ "Pro" is not yet revealed their full market potential and therefore cannot serve as the engine of sales of UAZ

 market Share of UAZ decreased to 17.7%. The market share of the brand LADA (model F90 Largus and vis) decreased slightly as well, as its sales grew below the market – 2.5% to 4.1 thousand.

The van LADA Largus F90 is in decline popularity

The van vis-23492 is in rather high demand from small business  

Brands among foreign LCV is still the most popular Ford with 8.3% of the market. It grew during this period, 60% to 4.8 thousand,

The presence of a well-designed range of modifications allows the Ford Transit to be the leader among LCV-cars

The greatest dynamics with a 3.5-fold increase was shown by the Japanese Mitsubishi to 1.4 thousand due to the return of the popularity of the L200 pickup truck.

The emergence of a purely Russian version of Black Edition spurred demand for the Mitsubishi L200 pickup truck

Good momentum of 22.2% (to 1.1 million) and 12.5% (to 0.9 million) showed, respectively, Peugeot and Citroen, due to the launch of the Kaluga Assembly of new models SpaceTourer and Traveller.

The development of PSMA at the plant in Kaluga Assembly of minivans and Peugeot Citroen SpaceTourer Traveller (photo below) has strengthened the position of these brands in the LCV segment

A negative trend among cars in the Top 10 showed only Toyota -18,8% to 1.3 thousand due to the cost of its Hilux pickup truck, as well as the upcoming change of generations (in the LCV segment, the brand and the brand Mitsubishi in 2018 not shown).

Over the former leader in the pickup segment, the Toyota Hilux in 2018 dark cloud

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