19.08.2025 / How many foreign cars are registered as taxi and what are the prospects for their operation

According to the marketing agency NAPI, as of July 1, 2025, the taxi population in Russia numbers 791.4 thousand cars that have a valid permission. 335.9 thousand cars of them are new: of 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 years of manufacture.

The average period of car ownership as taxi in 2023 was 43 months, last year - 42 months, in the first half of the current year - 39 months.

LADA is the most in-demand brand in the taxi population: it accounts for 15% of the new car population. Thus, there are 51.3 thousand LADA cars of 2022 - 2025 years of manufacture used as taxi. CHERY is on the second place by popularity: the brand owns 8% of the new taxi population (28.4 thousand cars). HAVAL occupied the third place, with 22.3 thousand cars of this brand registered in taxi companies, which is 7% of the population. TOP-10 also includes GEELY, JAC, MOSKVICH, BELGEE, OMODA, BAIC, and CHANGAN cars. The TOP-10 leaders account for slightly less than half of the fresh taxi population in Russia (44%).

Despite the diversity of car brands in taxi population today, the situation will most likely change in spring of 2026. Thus, in March 2026, amendments to Law No. 580-FZ will come into force. Their essence is that carriers will be able to enter only localized cars into the passenger taxi register. Foreign cars that have obtained permission can theoretically continue to operate. However, when re-registering to another carrier or leasing a car to an individual entrepreneur, the driver will need to receive a new permission, which will no longer be possible to obtain.

It should be noted that most cars are purchased from leasing companies. That is, foreign cars leased in 2022-2023 will change owners when re-registered as property, which will require renewing the permission, while this will not be possible.

Since cars that do not meet the new requirements cannot be used as taxi, taxi companies will be forced to sell them on the used car market and buy the new ones. Two factors should be taken into account here. Firstly, cars used as taxi lose 60-65% of their original price in 3-4 years on average. Secondly, the oversaturation of the used car market with taxi will lead to an even greater reduction in their prices. Thus, taxi companies will likely face significant losses.

Population of car taxi of 2022-2025 years of manufacture as of July 1, 2025