Trailer and semi-trailer price monitoring

The marketing agency NAPI (National Industrial Information Agency) is monthly monitoring prices for new trailers and semitrailers from the most significant online-platforms.

Trailer price monitoring database allows you to track dynamics of prices for new trailers and semitrailers at the regional level, estimate the trailer depreciation, etc.

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Corporate vehicle sales in Russia

The marketing agency NAPI (National Industrial Information Agency) monthly monitors corporate vehicle sales in Russia.

The «Russian corporate vehicle market» database provides data on sales of vehicles to legal entities and is supplemented with characteristics of buyers-legal entities.

Corporate vehicle sales analysis is carried out throughout Russia and broken down by federal districts, economic territories, regions, cities, settlements.

The database provides data on the automotive market for all vehicle types.

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Car market
LEPAS crossovers were brought to Russia for presentation

The first crossovers of the new Lepas brand associated with the Chery concern have been spotted in Saint Petersburg. According to registration of car license plates, the Chinese crossovers were delivered in transit through Kyrgyzstan. There are no plans to sell the novelties – they will be demonstrated to Russian colleagues from Chery. It is assumed that future Tenet L4, L6 and L8 models may be hidden under this name. NAPI (National...

Commercial vehicle market
Diesel cars are being tested at UAZ

The Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant is actively testing models equipped with diesel engines, as the company's press service report. So, at the moment, the engine control unit is being adjusted to ensure engine operation at subzero temperatures. Special attention is paid to operation of the turbocharger, catalytic converter and particulate filter both in normal driving and during regeneration. The electronics are also being adjusted at the test...

Automotive Market in CIS
MAZ and Itelma have released a new 303E23 electric bus

In April 2025, the Minsk Automobile Plant, in cooperation with the Itelma Group of Companies, produced a unique MAZ 303E23 large electric bus, which features virtually full localization on the territory of Belarus and the Russian Federation, using Belarusian and Russian components. Vehicles are equipped with an energy-efficient battery manufactured by Autonomous Energy Systems LLC (Itelma Group) with a range of at least 240 km, which makes it...

Which segments have grown in the declining car market?

The marketing agency NAPI analyzed sales of new cars of Russian and foreign brands in 2025.

Over 12 months, 610.6 thousand cars of foreign imported brands were sold, which was a 31.2% decline on the similar period of 2024. Sales of cars of traditional Russian brands fell by 24.5% and amounted to 334.9 thousand units. Moreover, in 2025, 258.6 thousand foreign brand cars produced in Russia were sold, sales grew by 70.2%. Another 101.7 thousand cars of new Russian brands were sold, they showed sales growth of 122.5%.

LADA brand (328.4 thousand units) accounted for the largest volume of sales of cars of traditional Russian brands. Among the new Russian brands, SOLARIS cars were sold the most (34.5 thousand units). As for the foreign brand cars produced in Russia, HAVAL brand became the leader by car sales (144.1 thousand units — only HAVAL cars produced in the Russian Federation). The best-selling cars of foreign brands supplied to Russia became GEELY (94.9 thousand units), BELGEE (68.1 thousand units) and CHANGAN (63.8 thousand units)…

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New car sales, thousand units
Average initial ownership period for a new car by a private owner, months
How have prices for Russian and Chinese cars changed since 2022

The marketing agency NAPI analyzed the dynamics of average prices* for new cars in January 2022-2026. The analysis focused on such Russian brands as LADA and UAZ, as well as the best-selling Chinese brands in 2025: CHANGAN, CHERY, GEELY, and HAVAL.

Over the four years, from January 2022 to January 2026, GEELY cars experienced the largest price increase, with the average price growing by 99.2%, or 1.95 m. rub. Prices for CHERY (+86.2%, or 1.46 m. rub.) and CHANGAN (+85.8%, or 1.5 m. rub.) cars also saw significant increase. HAVAL’s price grew by 1.10 m. rub., or 1.5-fold. Over the similar period, the price for LADA cars was up by 84.1%, or 783.2 thous. rub. Among the brands analyzed, UAZ cars experienced the smallest price increase (+43.4%, or 579.2 thous. rub.).

In January 2026, the average price for Geely cars grew by 16.1% on the similar period of 2025. Prices for UAZ (+7.8%) and LADA (+5.9%) cars increased slightly. HAVAL (+0.5%) and CHANGAN (+0.1%) cars appreciated slightly as well. The average price for Chery cars fell: by 3.4% in 2025 and by 1.5% this year.

*RRP (recommended retail prices)

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New car average price dynamics
Changes in the transport tax rate for trucks for legal entities
RUSSIAN AUTOMOTIVE MARKET
The share of used Chinese trucks has increased in all segments

According to the marketing agency NAPI , in January-December 2025, the share of new Chinese trucks decreased by 17.1 p.p. to 45.5%, while that of used Chinese trucks ones grew by 5.7 p.p. and reached 16.6%. The sharpest decline was shown by dumper (-22.5 p.p.), tractor unit (-13.2 p.p.), and construction vehicle (-14.6 p.p.) segments…

VEHICLE PRODUCTION IN RUSSIA
What is falling more: production or the market?

According to the NAPI, in January-May 2025, car production increased, but the production and sales growth rate fell compared to the results of January-April :+8.1% and +12.2%, respectively. Truck production decreased by 7.5%, the truck market fell by 50.1%. The bus production did not decrease as much as new vehicle sales … 

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION AGENCY (THE MARKETING AGENCY NAPI)

Modern market economy puts strict conditions for each company. In severe competitive conditions those companies are winning, which are able to see through products and services market conjuncture, forecast development tendencies, provide risks and offer optimal variants. Demand evaluation and release of efficient mechanisms of its satisfaction are mentioned as main assignments of companies` marketing services. Russian automotive market is one of the most profitable and at the same time complicated competitive environments. Automotive market participants` demands is rapidly changing, for this reason market analysis is fundamentally important for dealers and manufacturers to react immediately on any changes or events. To create an efficient development strategy, manufacturers and dealers have to release automotive market forecast based on complex automotive market statistic research based on following parameters: vehicle type; brand; model; modification level.

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In our materials are following parameters estimated: regional economic development; local dealer centers development; company model range correspondence to local climate conditions; vehicle prices by region; vehicle ownership expenses by region; competitive environment and other data.
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