More than 40% of new buses are sold via leasing
According to the marketing agency NAPI, 3.0 thousand new and used buses were leased in January-August 2026, which was a 16.1% decline on the previous year.
Leasing of used buses fell significantly compared to 2025 (-57.4% to 0.55 thousand units). The share of leasing in total used vehicle sales amounted just to 6.2% (-5.2 p.p.). Conversely, leasing of new buses showed year-on-year growth (+7.5% to 2.45 thousand units), with the leasing share in new vehicle sales reaching 42.1% (+3.8 p.p.).
Among TOP-7 regions by bus leasing, new vehicles accounted for over 90% of the total leasing volume in the Moscow, Yaroslavl, Rostov-on-Don and Krasnoyarsk regions. In the Republic of Udmurtia, used buses were leased more actively than new ones.