24.01.2023 / New car market by country of manufacture, 2022/2021

According to the marketing agency NAPI, in 2022, cars manufactured in the Russia accounted for slightly less than three quarters of the new car market. Following results of the last year, the share of such cars decreased by 8.7%.

Predictably, the share of cars manufactured in China, Kazakhstan and Belarus, has increased. If the share of cars manufactured in Belarus grew because their sales did not sink as much as the market as a whole (-22.5% against -53.3%), sales of cars manufactured in Kazakhstan and China were up by 147.4% and 36.1%, respectively, in 2022. A total of 13.7 thousand cars from Kazakhstan and 72.9 thousand cars manufactured in China were sold last year.

HYUNDAI, KIA, CHEVROLET, and JAC cars were mainly imported from Kazakhstan to Russia: these brands accounted for 99.9% of all deliveries of cars manufactured in Kazakhstan. HYUNDAI TUCSON (2.6 thousand units), KIA SPORTAGE (1.8 thousand units), and HYUNDAI SANTA FE (1.1 thousand units) became the best-selling cars last year.

GEELY cars were expectedly imported from the Belarus Republic; 17.4 thousand units were sold in Russia last year. A total of 27.3 thousand GEELY cars were sold in Russia. Thus, most of GEELY cars sold last year were manufactured in Belarus (63.7%), while the cars from China accounted for only 36.3%.