For 11 months of 2018 new buses added about 11%
Alexander Klimov, photo by the author
According RAMR sales of new buses (GVW 5.0 t) on the Russian market in November grew by 20% to 1.2 thousand For the eleven months 2018 sales of passenger vehicles increased by 10.7% and amounted to 11.3 thousand
Domestic models added 7% and foreign cars – 36%, i.e. the market is in a phase of active growth and no doubt will show at the end of 2018, a fairly good increase, probably double digit, which is the background of the decrease of LCV and HCV markets looks almost like a ray of hope, because the bus segment before the others come in and out of recession.

Market leadership reserves the Pavlovsky bus plant, whose market share is very high of 57.3%, but it is still lower than a year ago (63,2%), when it was virtually a monopoly. In January-November of the current year sales of buses the GROOVE made up of 6.47 million (+0,3%). In the second place the Model with growth by 6.6% to 1.45 thousand (share of 12.8% compared to 13.3% a year earlier). In third place with domestic NefAZ +63.6% to 0.72 per thousand In fourth place – Volgabus from 0,55 million (+71,99% – the best growth among domestic manufacturers). Chinese brand Yutong, shutting the Top 5 brands in the bus increased by 104,2% to 0.49 million and became the leader among foreign brands.

For 11 months of 2018, two brands of the Top 10 showed negative sales dynamics – KAVZ and King Long and 3.2% (0.3 thousand and 7 th place) and 9.1% (0,1 th and 9-th place).
Brands of the Top 10 (a total of 10.85 million) showed an increase of 11.2% and took 96% of the market, against 96.6 per cent a year earlier.