Russians spent 344 billion rubles on buying new cars in August this year; This is 3.5 times more than in the same period in 2022. This is reported citing a joint study by Auto Discovery and analytics agency Autostat. TASS.
Spending on new cars by Russian residents in August was 26% higher than in July. This was a record high since January 2021. A total of 109.7 thousand new passenger cars were sold in August. This is 15% more than in July and 2.6 times more than in August last year – 42.6 thousand units. Since January, 1.742 trillion rubles have been spent on the purchase of new cars in the country.
In the last month of summer, 61.8 thousand new Chinese cars were sold for 198.2 billion rubles, or 57.6% of the total. A year ago, the share of Chinese cars was 33.7%. The purchase of European car brands in August cost the Russians 45.9 billion rubles, the locals – 34.9 billion, the Japanese – 33.6 billion, the Koreans – 24.3 billion, the Americans – 7.1 billion.
Previously reportedIt was announced that the Tesla Model Y electric car will be the sales leader in the European market in August 2023.
It was previously known which cars were will stop supply To Russia after August 1.