40% of cars get purchased on credit in Sverdlovsk Region

August 2, 2013. Sverdlovsk Region is now the constituency with the third biggest amount of new foreign cars purchased by locals: 42,700 cars were sold in the first half of 2013, which is 2,500 less than a year earlier. All in all, 1.04m foreign cars were sold in Russia over this period, which is 4.5% less than a year earlier, Avtostat, an analytics agency, reports. Moscow residents still buy the largest number of cars: 31.5% of all the foreign cats that were sold in Russia in January-June 2013 were sold in Moscow. Saint-Petersburg, which represents 8.7% of all sales, is the city with the

April 14, 2015. 386,500 used cars were sold in Russia in March 2015, which was 24.3% less than a year earlier (when 510,300 automobiles were sold), Avtostat reports. The used cars market shrank by nearly 20% in only three months and now comes to 1.1m units. 32.5% of all the used cars on the market are LADA makes, especially VAZ 2107, Samara, and 2110. Toyota is still the most popular foreign car, with 40,300 automobiles (over 10% of the entire number) sold in March. Nissan and Chevrolet are the second and third best-selling used cars on the market, respectively. Ford, Hyundai, Volkswagen,

UrBC, Moscow, July 21, 2015. Russians spent 852.8bn RUR on new cars in the first half of the year, which was 25% less than a year earlier, Avtostat reports. 735,200 new cars were sold on the market (down 37% compared with the first half of 2014). The weighted average price of one automobile rose by 18% in the last six months and came to 1.16m RUR. For Russian cars, the price increase was 13% (up to 477,500 RUR), for foreign ones, the increase was 21% (up to1.332m RUR). Avtostat Director Sergey Tselikov says prices are unlikely to keep going up in the short to medium turn, while the second

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 1, 2019. 29,809 automobiles got sold on credit in Sverdlovsk Region last year, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 21.7%, the National Credit History Bureau reports. 52,581 cars got sold on Sverdlovsk Region market last year all in all, with the share of the ones bought on credit at 56.7%. ‘In 2018, the car loan market recovered to the state of affairs as of 2014. Even though certain state-subsidized lending programs got discontinued, car loans remain a noticeable supporting factor for the car making industry. Car loans on used automobiles are

UrBC, Moscow, December 2, 2015. 1.2m new cars were sold on the Russian market between January and October 2015, which was 34% less than a year earlier, Avtostat reports. Russian customers spent 1.46m trillion RUR on new automobiles this year so far (down 21% on the ten months of 2014), whereas the price of a car went up by 19.7% and came to 1.181m RUR on average. The price of foreign cars rose by 21.3% up to 1.343m RUR on average, that of Russian cars increased less noticeably, by 17.3%, and came to 504,000 RUR on average. Avtostat Director Sergei Tselikov believes Russian customers will have