For the first quarter of trucks-foreign cars in Russia rose in price and lost sales

16.05.2019

The market for new trucks dipped by 2.5%

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According RAMR in the first quarter of 2019, the Russian market of new trucks (MCV and HCV) made up 17.42 million, which is 2.5% below the first quarter of 2018.


Sales of new trucks as the market leader HCV – brand KAMAZ for the quarter to 6.94 million (+13.6 per cent). Second, a national leader in the segment of srednetonnazhnye (MCV) GAS sold of 2.06 thousand trucks (+0,5%).

Also in the Top 5 for January-March 2019 fell foreign brands Volvo, Scania and MAN sales of trucks which, respectively, decreased by 12.6% and 4.7% and 17.7%.

In addition, in March 2019 the most popular, for example, the market of new trucks used models such as: KAMAZ-65115, KAMAZ-6520, Volvo FM, the Lawn NEXT and MAN TGS. Their aggregate market share of trucks was 50%.
KAMAZ 6520 is the only truck top 5, sales of which in March 2019 fell compared to March 2018 (-29,7%). The average price for this model in the period under review fell by 4.4%.

The average prices for new trucks in January-March 2019, increased by 7.1% compared to the same period in 2018, amounting to ₽5 821 524.
The overall financial capacity of the market of new trucks amounted to ₽101 964 million (+ 4,9%).

Expensive, naturally, and cars. So, in January-March 2019 the weighted average of prices showed prices of all the brands of the Top 10.
The biggest increase in average prices (over 10%) showed such brands as Volvo, MAN, Mercedes-Benz and Isuzu.

And yet the greatest financial capacity of the market among the Top 10 brands of new vehicles in the period under review is marked at KAMAZ – ₽34 566 million, with the growth of market capacity of this brand was +22%. In the first of three financial market capacity also includes the brands Volvo (₽12,642 billion) and Scania (₽12,162 billion).

Five brands of the Top 10 new trucks marked reduction in financial capacity – Volvo, MAN, Mercedes-Benz, DAF and Isuzu, which is connected with falling of sales of new trucks of these brands more than 11%.
Among the Top 5 models of new trucks in March 2019 MAN TGS showed the greatest increase in average price in March 2019, as compared to March 2018 the price of this model grew by 13.3%. While sales of this model dump trucks in the Russian market increased by 8.3%. Also significantly added to the price of the truck Volvo FM (+13,1%) and the growth of its sales was 50%.

Among the Top 10 regional markets trucks the highest average price for new cars was recorded in the Smolensk region (₽9 714 069), the Republic of Tatarstan (₽6 351 108) in the Moscow region (₽6 340 087).

 a Leader in the market among the Russian regions is Moscow. In the region in January-March 2019 were sold new trucks for 8 948 million. the capacity of the markets of the Moscow region and Tatarstan, which are also included in the top three in this indicator, is 8,914 million and RUB 5 RUB 608 million, respectively.

 the Market for used trucks
Average price for used trucks in January-March 2019 rose by 11.3% over the same period last year – to ₽2 070 571. The capacity of the secondary truck market increased by 15.2% and amounted to ₽126 723 million

In January-March 2019 all brands of Top-10 showed the growth of average weighted prices.

Among these brands, the largest market capacity in the period under review marked the brand KAMAZ – ₽38,194 billion, and increase the financial capacity of this brand amounted to 34.5%. It is followed by Scania and Volvo with indicators ₽10,564 billion and ₽10,204 billion, respectively.

Among the Top 10 regions, the highest average price for used trucks recorded in the Republic of Tatarstan (₽2 301 085), Krasnodar region (₽300 2 858) and St. Petersburg (₽2 285 991).
A leader in the market of used trucks among the Russian regions is Moscow oblast. In this region in January-March has sold used trucks at ₽8,621 billion the size of the markets of Krasnodar Krai and Moscow, which are also included in the top three in this indicator is ₽6 995 billion and ₽6 861 billion, respectively..