Russians began to buy more used cars

In March, 448.3 thousand cars with mileage were sold in Russia, calculated in Avtostat. This is 10.7 percent less than in March 2024, but 12.9 percent more than in February 2025. That is, the purchasing interest of Russians is changing: while the market of new cars [сокращается](https://motor.ru/news/cars-sales-04-04-2025.htm), the “secondary” is growing.

About 30 percent of mileage cars purchased in early spring are cars of Russian brands. A quarter of the cars sold belong to Japanese brands, German and South Korean models equally divided the quarter.

The share of American cars in the secondary market of the Russian Federation is only seven percent, French are 4.5 percent. At the same time, the “Chinese” there are already more than the “Chekhov” – four percent against two. Stamps from other regions did not score 2.5 percent.

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TOP-5 of the most popular brands among buyers occupy 51.5 percent of the market. These are Lada, Toyota, Kia, Hyundai and Nissan.

In general, for the first quarter of 2025, new owners in Russia found 1.27 million used cars. This is 3.2 percent more than in the same period of last year.

Due to bad sales in the market of new cars, Russia can leave about 10 brands, analysts say. In the risk zone, in their opinion, Oting, Kaiyi, SWM, Livan, VGV and MG. They already fell into such lists, but deny plans to stop work.

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