Autostat: Russia’s sales of new cars almost triple in July

MOSCOW, Aug 4 (PRIME) -- The sales of new cars in Russia almost tripled on the year to 95,654 vehicles in July, research agency Autostat said in a statement on Friday citing data of the system of digital car passports.

In January–July, sales of new cars increased by 28.2% on the year to 497,230.

The sales of Lada cars made by Russian largest carmaker AvtoVAZ more than doubled on the year to 27,400 in July. The sales of Chinese cars also skyrocketed with the amount of sold Chery cars more than quadrupling to 10,700, of Geely cars almost quadrupling to 8,800, of Haval cars quadrupling to 8,500, and of Changun cars jumping by 30 times to 5,200.

In the first six months of the year, Lada sales surged by 93.8% to 161,900, sales of Chery almost quadrupled to 57,900 cars, of Geely almost quadrupled to 41,500 cars, of Haval tripled to 47,100, and of Changan jumped by almost 11 times to 14,000.

At the same time, sales of Kia, Hyundai, and Toyota cars plummeted by 55.8%, 56.4%, and 42.4%, respectively, in the period.

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