16.06.2020 / Premium car sales fell by 43% in May

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A _Premium%20car%20sales%20fell%20by%2043% ccording to Russian Automotive Market Research, in January-May 2020, 490.6 thousand new cars were sold in the Russian market, which was a 17% decline year-on-year. Premium brands accounted for 10% of them (9% in the similar period of 2019) or 49.54 thousand units. In January-May 2019, Russians purchased 11.6% more new premium cars.

In May 2020, new premium car sales fell by 43.2% on May 2019 and amounted to 6.38 thousand units.

In May 2020 sales of the market leader BMW decreased by 34.3% and amounted to 1.95 thousand units. It was followed by MERCEDES-BENZ and LEXUS, car sales of which fell by 49.4% and 24.1%, respectively.

New premium car sales, ТОР-10 brands,
May 2020/2019, thousand units

Brand	May 2019	May 2020	Change, %
BMW	2.97	1.95	-34.3
MERCEDES-BENZ	2.67	1.35	-49.4
LEXUS	1.58	1.20	-24.1
AUDI	1.18	0.72	-39.0
LAND ROVER	0.62	0.31	-50.0
PORSCHE	0.50	0.23	-54.0
VOLVO	0.55	0.21	-61.8
MINI	0.15	0.11	-26.7
INFINITI	0.24	0.07	-70.8
JEEP	0.14	0.06	-57.1
ТОР-10	10.60	6.21	-41.4
Other	0.64	0.17	-73.4
Total	11.24	6.38	-43.2

Source: Russian Automotive Market Research

New premium car sales in the largest regional markets – Moscow, the Moscow region and Saint Petersburg - fell by 65.6%, 23.4% and 29.7%, respectively.

Sales grew in three TOP-20 regions – Khanty-Mansi AR, Novosibirsk and Irkutsk regions.

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

Region	May 2019	May 2020	Change, %
Moscow	4.79	1.65	-65.6
Moscow region	0.94	0.72	-23.4
Saint Petersburg	1.01	0.71	-29.7
Krasnodar region	0.52	0.31	-40.4
Sverdlovsk region	0.29	0.18	-37.9
Tatarstan Republic	0.27	0.17	-37.0
Rostov-on-Don region	0.19	0.16	-15.8
Samara region	0.19	0.15	-21.1
Chelyabinsk region	0.17	0.15	-11.8
Khanty-Mansi AR	0.10	0.12	20.0
Novosibirsk region	0.10	0.11	10.0
Krasnoyarsk region	0.13	0.10	-23.1
Tyumen region	0.12	0.09	-25.0
Bashkortostan Republic	0.14	0.09	-35.7
Irkutsk region	0.07	0.09	28.6
Saratov region	0.09	0.08	-11.1
Voronezh region	0.09	0.08	-11.1
Perm region	0.10	0.08	-20.0
Stavropol region	0.16	0.08	-50.0
Nizhny Novgorod region	0.17	0.07	-58.8
ТОР-20	9.64	5.19	-46.2
Other	1.60	1.19	-25.6
Total	11.24	6.38	-43.2

Source: Russian Automotive Market Research

New premium car sales, ТОР-10 brands,
January-May 2020/2019, thousand units

Brand	January-May 2019	January-May 2020	Change, %
BMW	14.80	13.76	-7.0
MERCEDES-BENZ	14.57	12.45	-14.6
LEXUS	7.34	6.66	-9.3
AUDI	5.53	5.93	7.2
LAND ROVER	3.32	2.79	-16.0
VOLVO	2.82	2.32	-17.7
PORSCHE	1.97	1.86	-5.6
INFINITI	1.53	0.88	-42.5
MINI	0.77	0.79	2.6
JEEP	0.80	0.55	-31.3
ТОР-10	53.45	47.99	-10.2
Other	2.59	1.55	-40.2
Total	56.04	49.54	-11.6

Source: Russian Automotive Market Research

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

Region	January-May 2019	January-May 2020	Change, %
Moscow	23.05	16.57	-28.1
Saint Petersburg	6.04	5.96	-1.3
Moscow region	4.60	4.81	4.6
Krasnodar region	2.65	2.24	-15.5
Tatarstan Republic	1.44	1.43	-0.7
Sverdlovsk region	1.26	1.30	3.2
Rostov-on-Don region	1.14	1.13	-0.9
Samara region	0.89	0.90	1.1
Chelyabinsk region	0.85	0.85	0.0
Nizhny Novgorod region	0.77	0.71	-7.8
Stavropol region	0.80	0.69	-13.8
Bashkortostan Republic	0.70	0.68	-2.9
Krasnoyarsk region	0.64	0.61	-4.7
Novosibirsk region	0.54	0.60	11.1
Tyumen region	0.53	0.57	7.5
Voronezh region	0.55	0.54	-1.8
Perm region	0.50	0.51	2.0
Khanty-Mansi AR	0.48	0.46	-4.2
Irkutsk region	0.44	0.44	0.0
Saratov region	0.38	0.41	7.9
ТОР-20	48.25	41.41	-14.2
Other	7.79	8.13	4.4
Total	56.04	49.54	-11.6