Sales of new LCVs and pickups have grown in 7 months on 7%
Alexander Klimov, photo by the author
According RAMR sales of new light commercial vehicles (LCV) full weight up to 3.5 t pickups in July 2018 amounted to 9.1 million (+2,2% compared to the same month of 2017).
Sales of new LCVs in January-July 2018 in Russia increased by 6.0% compared to the same period in 2017, respectively, the total sales was 66.9 thousand
The sales growth of the brand GAS in the first seven months of 2018 was up 9.4% to 27.8 million, which allowed us to take 41.6% of the Russian market of new LCV. The second Russian brand UAZ during this period sold 11.7 thousand cars commercial series ("loaves" and "tadpoles"), pickup UAZ Pickup, as well as new trucks "Pro", but the latter could not help to overcome the drop in sales of 18.8% over the same period last year. Almost treading water and sales of LADA brand (Largus van and pick-up IPOs) increased only 2.1% to 4.8 thousand But the best of saturated with foreign cars brands LCV – Ford's sales increased 1.5% to 5.6 thousand.
Negative dynamics of sales in January-July 2018 was characteristic not only for the model range of UAZ, but also for pickup trucks Hilux brand Toyota (-21,1% to 1.5 million). But the Mitsubishi L200 pick-up during the period under review, in contrast, increased sales by 3.2% to 1.6 thousand