24.11.2020 / How many new cars and LCV were sold in October?

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New LCV market

In January-October 2020, sales of new LCV¹ totaled 86.78 thousand units – by 7.9% less than in the similar period of 2019.

In October 2020 the new LCV market showed the best result for 2020 - 11.55 thousand units. The same demand for new LCV was registered in October 2019.

The market leader GAZ sold 4.30 thousand light commercial vehicles in October 2020, which was a 10.4% decline on October 2019. The second place was traditionally occupied by UAZ, sales of which fell by 8.9%. TOP-3 also included LADA. In October 2020, 1.42 thousand new LADA commercial vehicles were sold in the Russian market, which was a 35.2% rise on October 2019.

Five TOP-10 brands showed negative sales dynamics. The sharpest decline was shown by VOLKSWAGEN (-28.2%).

The largest increase in LCV sales was shown by HYUNDAI: the demand for light commercial vehicles of this brand increased 4-fold on October 2019.

New LCV sales, ТОР-10 brands,
October 2020/ 2019, thousand units

Brand	October 2019	October 2020	Change, %
GAZ	4.80	4.30	-10.4
UAZ	1.80	1.64	-8.9
LADA	1.05	1.42	35.2
FORD	1.57	1.36	-13.4
VOLKSWAGEN	0.71	0.51	-28.2
MERCEDES-BENZ	0.19	0.43	126.3
PEUGEOT	0.17	0.34	100.0
TOYOTA	0.32	0.29	-9.4
CITROEN	0.12	0.27	125.0
HYUNDAI	0.06	0.25	316.7
ТОР-10	10.79	10.81	0.2
Other	0.76	0.74	-2.6
Total	11.55	11.55	0.0

Source: Russian Automotive Market Research

Moscow, the Moscow region and Saint Petersburg topped the list of regions by new LCV sales in October 2020.

A number of regional TOP-20 markets showed negative sales dynamics. New LCV sales in Nizhny Novgorod region, Rostov-on-Don and Stavropol regions fell by more than 20%.

New LCV sales in the Samara and Saratov regions grew by more than 30%.

New LCV sales, ТОР-20 regions,
October 2020/ 2019, thousand units

Region	October 2019	October 2020	Change, %
Moscow	2.00	1.68	-16.0
Moscow region	1.01	1.05	4.0
Saint Petersburg	0.64	0.82	28.1
Krasnodar region	0.40	0.42	5.0
Tatarstan Republic	0.40	0.40	0.0
Sverdlovsk region	0.31	0.30	-3.2
Samara region	0.21	0.28	33.3
Nizhny Novgorod region	0.39	0.28	-28.2
Chelyabinsk region	0.26	0.26	0.0
Khanty-Mansi AR	0.23	0.24	4.3
Novosibirsk region	0.22	0.24	9.1
Bashkortostan Republic	0.24	0.21	-12.5
Krasnoyarsk region	0.19	0.20	5.3
Rostov-on-Don region	0.28	0.20	-28.6
Saratov region	0.14	0.20	42.9
Irkutsk region	0.19	0.20	5.3
Perm region	0.18	0.18	0.0
Voronezh region	0.20	0.17	-15.0
Stavropol region	0.19	0.15	-21.1
Altai region	0.13	0.15	15.4
ТОР-20	7.81	7.63	-2.3
Other	3.74	3.92	4.8
Total	11.55	11.55	0.0

Source: Russian Automotive Market Research

New LCV sales, ТОР-10 brands,
January-October 2020/ 2019, thousand units

Brand	January-October 2019	January-October 2020	Change, %
GAZ	40.14	35.48	-11.6
UAZ	16.43	13.62	-17.1
FORD	10.37	10.94	5.5
LADA	8.01	8.71	8.7
VOLKSWAGEN	5.83	4.47	-23.3
TOYOTA	2.47	2.34	-5.3
MERCEDES-BENZ	1.75	1.68	-4.0
MITSUBISHI	1.48	1.55	4.7
PEUGEOT	1.37	1.51	10.2
VIS	1.51	1.35	-10.6
ТОР-10	89.36	81.65	-8.6
Other	4.91	5.13	4.5
Total	94.27	86.78	-7.9

Source: Russian Automotive Market Research

New LCV sales, ТОР-20 regions,
January-October 2020/ 2019, thousand units

Region	January-October 2019	January-October 2020	Change, %
Moscow	14.69	11.90	-19.0
Moscow region	7.38	7.06	-4.3
Saint Petersburg	5.30	5.25	-0.9
Krasnodar region	3.64	3.09	-15.1
Tatarstan Republic	3.21	2.92	-9.0
Sverdlovsk region	2.55	2.50	-2.0
Nizhny Novgorod region	2.67	2.26	-15.4
Rostov-on-Don region	2.17	2.01	-7.4
Samara region	2.04	1.88	-7.8
Khanty-Mansi AR	2.09	1.87	-10.5
Chelyabinsk region	1.71	1.85	8.2
Bashkortostan Republic	2.23	1.82	-18.4
Krasnoyarsk region	1.64	1.71	4.3
Irkutsk region	1.49	1.62	8.7
Novosibirsk region	1.81	1.52	-16.0
Perm region	1.43	1.52	6.3
Tyumen region	1.33	1.37	3.0
Stavropol region	1.40	1.28	-8.6
Voronezh region	1.58	1.22	-22.8
Saratov region	1.37	1.15	-16.1
ТОР-20	61.73	55.80	-9.6
Other	32.54	30.98	-4.8
Total	94.27	86.78	-7.9

Source: Russian Automotive Market Research

New car market

Following results of of ten months of 2020, 1 million 171 thousand new cars were sold in the Russian market, which was a 7.9% decline on the similar period of 2019.

In October 2020 the new car market increased by 5.3% on October 2019 to 153.44 thousand units.

Sales of the market leader LADA increased by 19.5% in October 2020 and amounted to 35.11 thousand units. KIA and HYUNDAI also traditionally entered TOP-3. Sales of KIA cars decreased by 1.5%, while demand for HYUNDAI cars, on the contrary, grew by 1.1%.

In addition to KIA, MERCEDES-BENZ, TOYOTA, MITSUBISHI and MAZDA were among TOP-15 brands to show decline in sales.

The Chinese GEELY and CHERY actively increased their new car sales. Demand for GEELY cars increased 2.5-fold, that for CHERY cars – 3-fold.

New car sales, ТОР-15 brands,
October 2020/ 2019, thousand units

Brand	October 2019	October 2020	Change, %
LADA	29.37	35.11	19.5
KIA	21.04	20.72	-1.5
HYUNDAI	16.94	17.13	1.1
RENAULT	13.98	15.08	7.9
VOLKSWAGEN	9.49	10.10	6.4
SKODA	7.66	9.59	25.2
TOYOTA	8.27	8.00	-3.3
NISSAN	6.04	6.26	3.6
BMW	3.88	4.61	18.8
MERCEDES-BENZ	3.94	3.82	-3.0
MITSUBISHI	3.44	2.86	-16.9
MAZDA	2.61	2.31	-11.5
GEELY	0.84	2.13	153.6
CHERY	0.61	1.94	218.0
HAVAL	1.33	1.65	24.1
ТОР-15	129.44	141.31	9.2
Other	16.23	12.13	-25.3
Total	145.67	153.44	5.3

Source: Russian Automotive Market Research

Moscow, the Moscow region and Saint Petersburg topped the list of regions by new car sales in October 2020.

In October 2020, almost all TOP-20 regional markets showed increase in new car sales except Moscow, Krasnodar, Stavropol and Kemerovo regions.

New car sales, ТОР-20 regions,
October 2020/ 2019, thousand units

Region	October 2019	October 2020	Change, %
Moscow	22.99	19.45	-15.4
Moscow region	12.21	13.34	9.3
Saint Petersburg	10.05	10.50	4.5
Tatarstan Republic	6.12	7.28	19.0
Krasnodar region	6.30	5.92	-6.0
Bashkortostan Republic	5.04	5.66	12.3
Samara region	4.18	5.09	21.8
Sverdlovsk region	4.65	4.72	1.5
Chelyabinsk region	3.70	4.55	23.0
Nizhny Novgorod region	3.54	3.95	11.6
Rostov-on-Don region	3.51	3.84	9.4
Perm region	2.97	3.03	2.0
Voronezh region	2.55	2.78	9.0
Khanty-Mansi AR	2.26	2.72	20.4
Volgograd region	2.25	2.54	12.9
Orenburg region	2.14	2.48	15.9
Saratov region	2.11	2.43	15.2
Stavropol region	2.55	2.19	-14.1
Novosibirsk region	1.76	2.00	13.6
Kemerovo region	2.07	1.99	-3.9
ТОР-20	102.95	106.46	3.4
Other	42.72	46.98	10.0
Total	145.67	153.44	5.3

Source: Russian Automotive Market Research

New car sales, ТОР-15 brands,
January-October 2020/ 2019, thousand units

Brand	January-October 2019	January-October 2020	Change, %
LADA	276.27	247.33	-10.5
KIA	175.60	163.10	-7.1
HYUNDAI	141.66	134.01	-5.4
RENAULT	114.11	101.29	-11.2
VOLKSWAGEN	81.54	81.40	-0.2
TOYOTA	79.41	70.66	-11.0
SKODA	63.54	70.66	11.2
NISSAN	53.04	47.31	-10.8
BMW	32.09	33.85	5.5
MERCEDES-BENZ	32.11	30.40	-5.3
MITSUBISHI	31.33	24.97	-20.3
MAZDA	24.39	20.96	-14.1
LEXUS	17.38	15.69	-9.7
DATSUN	17.83	13.01	-27.0
HAVAL	7.64	12.84	68.1
ТОР-15	1 147.94	1 067.48	-7.0
Other	123.79	103.62	-16.3
Total	1 271.73	1 171.10	-7.9

Source: Russian Automotive Market Research

New car sales, ТОР-20 regions,
January-October 2020/ 2019, thousand units

Region	January-October 2019	January-October 2020	Change, %
Moscow	209.35	159.80	-23.7
Moscow region	99.30	93.96	-5.4
Saint Petersburg	92.19	81.21	-11.9
Tatarstan Republic	55.89	52.25	-6.5
Krasnodar region	50.40	44.74	-11.2
Bashkortostan Republic	45.04	42.16	-6.4
Sverdlovsk region	40.03	39.43	-1.5
Samara region	39.93	38.91	-2.6
Chelyabinsk region	32.53	33.05	1.6
Rostov-on-Don region	30.81	30.09	-2.3
Nizhny Novgorod region	29.13	28.73	-1.4
Perm region	25.94	23.75	-8.4
Voronezh region	21.13	20.42	-3.4
Volgograd region	19.70	19.50	-1.0
Khanty-Mansi AR	21.18	19.04	-10.1
Stavropol region	21.44	18.76	-12.5
Orenburg region	17.02	17.80	4.6
Saratov region	17.62	17.61	-0.1
Kemerovo region	18.41	17.34	-5.8
Novosibirsk region	15.03	14.58	-3.0
ТОР-20	902.07	813.13	-9.9
Other	369.66	357.97	-3.2
Total	1 271.73	1 171.10	-7.9