AEB: Russian car, LCV sales fall 2.4% to 139,970 units in July

MOSCOW, Aug 6 (PRIME) -- Russia’s sales of new cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) fell 2.4% on the year to 139,968 vehicles in July, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) said in a statement on Tuesday.

“Seven months into 2019, we find the market 2.4% down, both month-on-month and year-on-year. Market expectations till the end of the year are fundamentally no better,” Lars Himmer, deputy chairman of the AEB Automobile Manufacturers Committee, said, as cited in the statement.

Sales of Russia’s largest carmaker AvtoVAZ Group fell 2% on the year to 50,143 cars in July.

Skoda said sales grew 10.4% on the year to 7,307 in July.

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