The statistics of car sales in the dealer centers of the country over the past May continues to be depressing. Russians are less and less buying new cars. Most of them only have enough money to buy used vehicles. In the secondary market, cars are rekindling, and sales of fresh sedans, hatchbacks and crossovers with minivans continue to sag. Only pickups showed growth. And the price tags on them are much higher than other types of cars, the demand for which is falling. So, it’s not all about the lack of money of Russians, but about seasonality - holidays with hunting and fishing - or maybe changing priorities, because trucks are a more practical type of personal transport, and you can earn money on them . You can guess forever, because no one will be engaged in clarifying all the reasons. Well take pickups, and glory to those, Lord! Good cars. Over the past May, 659 pickups were sold at dealerships across the country, which is, of course, a negligible figure throughout the country, but it grew by more than seven percent compared to May 2015. And this is already a growth statistics, you can happily rub your hands and report to the highest authorities about the exit of the Russian car market from the crisis :).

Such statistics are maintained by the specialized agency Avtostat, which regularly monitors the movement of vehicles from dealers to customers and back. For years, the most popular pickup truck segment on our car market is the Japanese all-terrain truck. Toyota Hajluks. This, by the way, is the only car among those sold in our country that, because of its undeniable reliability, even ten years after its first sale loses no more than five percent in price. Over the past May, the Russians bought 238 new ones Toyota Hajluks. The second step of the podium on sales of pickups was taken by the domestic UAZ pickup, his result, as they say, breathes in the back of the head of a Japanese pickup truck - the least sold for eleven pieces. At the third position settled another Japanese - Mitsubishi L200. "Two hundred" Russians bought for May exactly 130 pieces. Experts from Avtostat have also seen a serious increase in German Volkswagen Amarok, over the past May 2016, it was bought sixty times. Few? Of course, a little! But compared to May last year, when the Russians bought a little more than a couple of dozen Amaroks, this is an increase of 250 percent.

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Selling the rest of the cars in the Russian car market sank by fifteen percent. 44 percent of the cars purchased today are B-class cars: Grants, Solaris, Rio. Slightly more take the crossovers, here in May became the leader Renault Duster. C-class remains in third position with the Skoda Octavia, the most popular liftback in the segment.

We recently wrote that another pickup truck will arrive at the Russian car market. It is italian Fiat Fullback. He will come to us at the beginning of the coming autumn.