The markets of trucks and buses increased from the beginning of 2018

The segments of trucks (+36%) and buses (+10%) showed growth in January-February this year

the Market of new trucks

In January-February 2018 the Russian market of new trucks with GVW over 6 tons grew by 35.9% compared with the same month last year and amounted to 10.6 thousand Directly in February of this year was 5.8 thousand sold cars (+35,8%).

The share of the most popular domestic brand KAMAZ accounted for about 3.6 thousand cars (+5,9%), which accounted for one-third of the Russian market of new trucks. Moreover, in January-February 2017 KAMAZ took an even greater share of 44%.

Freight cars of GAZ brand was repeated in February 2018, the same result for the same month of 2017, taking 12% of the market. For January-February sales "Pitch-ov" were 30% higher than the same period in 2017, and reached 1.3 million, However, related his Ural showed "zero growth" in sales of 0.4 thousand

Among the freight cars in the Russian market the best sales performance was at brands such as Volvo, Scania and MAZ. Thus, the registration of Volvo trucks during the first two months of 2018 amounted to 0.9 thousand (an increase of 2.25%), Scania – 0.8 thousand (growth in 2 times), MAZ – 0.7 thousand units (+40%). The third largest trend was showed by Mercedes-Benz with +66,7% – to 0.5 thousand Above the market with time and a half (+50%) growth in the Top-10 was brands MAN (0.5 thousand) and DAF (0.3 thousand). Interestingly, the sale of truck brands outside the Top 10 jumped by 2.2 times – up to 1.1 thousand that indicates a General revival of the market on the background of the stable exchange rate when the implementation of pent-up demand spilled "Golden rain" literally everyone present on the market manufacturers.

the Market of new buses

On the new bus market in January-February of the current year also saw an increase, but only 10.1%. Accordingly, registration was 1.97 thousand However, directly in February of 2018, the implementation of the buses compared with the same month in 2017 jumped 28.3%, to 1 million, which gives hope for more strong growth in the coming months and a good result for the quarter.

More than half of the market (56,3%) of the new buses is a brand of GROOVE. Thus, the volume of sales of PAZ buses in comparison with January-February last year increased by 18.1% to 1.11 thousand By the way, related brand KAVZ showed an increase of 16.7% to 0.07 thousand And, here business the second largest national producer of Likino bus plant (LIAZ) went much worse after the implementation of important contracts for Moscow and Moscow region. Thus, the registration of its mid-size and big buses fell by 26.7% – up to 0.33 million, which is, however, allowed to keep second place in the market with more than two-fold superiority over became the third NefAZ-om with its growth by 66.7% to 0.15 thousand Even worse in the Top 10 felt only Belarusian MAZ, falling 42.3% to 0.08 THD Even so-called "Other" brand of buses in the amount of only lost 25% (up to 0.03 million). Characteristically, places from 7th to 10th in the market were taken by the Chinese brands with a growth of 40 times (!) at Zhongtong bus (up to 0.04 million), a 10-fold have Higer (up to 0.03 K) and 4-fold at Yutong (up to 0.04 million) to "only" 2 times at King Long (up to 0.02 million). However, Chinese manufacturers brings poor dealer and service network, so sale is limited to one-time contracts and defined settlements.

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