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In Russia, sales of premium cars collapsed for a third

This follows from the statistics of sales for April, which is published by Avtostat. In the second month of spring, demand collapsed by more than a third compared to April 2024-by 35 percent, up to 10.2 thousand pieces. The share of premium cars in the total market structure was 10 percent, against 11.4 percent a year earlier. The popular premium marke is in April-Chinese EXEED.

In April, the Russians bought 2881 EXEED crossover, and this is 35 percent less than last month last year. In second place in terms of sales is Tank, just on cars of this brand sank by 38 percent in annual comparison. Closes the top three BMW leaders (1149 pcs.; -19 percent) -this brand is no longer represented in Russia, but cars continue to supply in parallel ways to the country.

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The five also include Lixiang (990 pcs.; -56 percent) and Mercedes -Benz (712 pcs.; -16 percent). The second acquired an official distributor earlier this month, and the second, like BMW, is carried in parallel imports.

Earlier it was reported that in April 102.1 thousand new cars were sold in Russia – this is 27.9 percent more than in March, but 25.5 percent less than in the same month of 2024. April was the first month this year, when more than 100 thousand cars managed to sell.

In the first place in terms of the number of cars sold is LADA with an indicator of 28,486 cars, the share of the brand in the overall structure of the market is 28 percent.

Contrary to sanctions: statistics of sales of luxury machines in Russia

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