In April, LCV went up on the new

After the failure in March, the market of new LCV in April again came in plus

According RAMR market new light commercial vehicles (LCV + pickups) in April increased by 9.5% compared to the same period last year and reached 11.5 thousand considering the fact that in March of this year the Russian market of new LCV fell by 7.5%, this figure looks even more impressive.



In the four months since the beginning of 2018 new LCV market grew by 6.7% to 38.1 thousand, Respectively foreign brands LCVs in January-April literally flew by 33.5%, while LCV of Russian brands made the decline in sales of 3.2%.





  Light commercial vehicles of GAZ in the first four months of 2018 took 41% of the market or 15.5 million with sales growth of 11.5%. An increasing share of production and sales is series of "GAZelle NEXT".



Sales of commercial vehicles during the period under review, by contrast, has fallen by 25%, to 6.9 thousand, Respectively, the share of LCV UAZ on the market declined to 18% vs. 26% for the same period of 2017.


Sales of new lorry UAZ "Pro", though growing fast enough, but the total sales of the brand so far to have not.


Among foreign cars LCV the most popular brand is Ford, with sales growth of 77.8 per cent to 3.2 million, which helped increase the occupied market share from 5% to 8%. A series of Transit is in increasing demand, including due to the special model.



In fourth place is the domestic LADA (F90 Largus pickups and vis), with zero sales growth at 2.6 million and market share decreased from 7.3% to 6.8%.



The five most popular brands of LCV in the Russian market closes, Mercedes-Benz also with zero growth in sales at the level of 2.3 thousand Respectively, its market share fell from 6.4% to 6%.



The next generation of MB imported Sprinter in Europe have changed, but Russia is still sold model of the previous generation.



  6-m a place LCV Volkswagen with a growth of 16.7% to 2.1 thousand Its market share grew from 5% to 5.5%.


 by the Way, the market finally turned around sales of the second generation model of the VW Crafter.


On the 7th place with a 5-fold increase in left Mitsubishi (actually only pickup L200) from 0.2 to 1.0 million and market share, which grew from 0.6% to 2.6%.


At the 8th place Toyota (Hilux pickup) with -27.3 percent to 0.8 million versus 1.1 million a year earlier. Its share also fell from 3.1 thousand to 2.1%.


On 9-th place – Peugeot with +16.7% to 0.7 thousand, Its share grew from 1.7% to 1.8%.


In 10th place – Citroen, with growth of 20% to 2.4 thousand Their share of it increased from 1.4% to 1.6%.


LCV other brands outside the Top 10 grew by a total of 41.2% to 2.4 million versus 1.7 million for the same period last year. The proportion they occupied also increased from 4.8% to 6.3%.