The new car market in Kazakhstan remains stable

Taking into account export supplies, 2841 cars were sold on the official Kazakh market. At the same time, the domestic market for official sales of new cars in March showed an increase of 4,3% compared to the previous month and amounted to 2830 units. In total, since the beginning of the year, car dealer sales amounted to 7917 units. cars. Thus, there was a quantitative decline by 27,25% compared to the same period in 2016 (10883 units).

In March, imported cars accounted for 67,6% of total sales. Based on the results of the previous month, the share of imported cars was 68,3%. The share of Kazakhstan-made cars, respectively: 32,4% of total sales in March versus 31,7% in February.

Toyota is in the leading position in terms of sales volume for the first 3 months of this year with a result of 1506 units. Second place belongs to Lada cars - 1271 units were sold in just three months. Third place in the ranking is occupied by Renault with 667 units. sales based on the results of 3 months. In March, dealers sold 168 cars of this brand.

At the end of March, Toyota remained the sales leader with a result of 648 units. Quantitative growth compared to February 2017 was 39,4%. Lada cars are in second place with a sales volume of 481 units. and with a slight increase in sales of 3% compared to the previous month. Third place in the ranking with an increase of 22% and a volume of 194 cars is occupied by Ravon. Also, car brands showed an increase in sales in March: Peugeot, Nissan, Kia, Audi, BMW, Lifan, UAZ, Porsche and Mitsubishi

In the segment of affordable cars at a price of 3 – 000 tenge, the leading position is occupied by Ravon Nexia R000. Let us recall that in March an agreement was signed between the Uzbek manufacturer and the AllurGroup company on the production of a number of models of this brand at the production sites of the Kostanay plant.

Among low-price segment cars costing 2 – 000 tenge, Lada Granta and Lada 000×3 are popular.

Among the premium segment costing over 20 million tenge, the Lexus LX car is the most popular. In March, 42 cars of this brand were sold.

Also in March, there is an increase in demand for commercial equipment. The following brands showed an increase: Foton, Scania, Mercedec-Benz Truks.

 

Top 10 best-selling brands in Kazakhstan, January-March 2017

 

The new car market in Kazakhstan remains stable - AKAB

 

In export sales, Toyota showed an increase of 37,5% compared to last month. A total of 11 cars of this brand were exported in March.

 

For your information:

The Association of Kazakhstan Automotive Business is a non-profit organization founded in 2010 as a voluntary association of official dealers, importers, distributors and manufacturers of passenger and commercial vehicles in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

AKAB unites the main official automobile manufacturers, importers, distributors and dealers of Kazakhstan: SaryarkaAvtoProm LLP, AgromashHolding JSC, Hyundai Com Trans LLP, Kamaz-Engineering JSC, SemAZ LLP, KMK Astana Motors, Toyota LLP Motor Kazakhstan", Mercur, Virage LLP and others.

The main goal of the association is to form a transparent automobile market in the Republic of Kazakhstan, help ACAB members obtain information, prepare reports and reviews, and also help members of the Association and government services solve problems that arise in the car market of the Republic.

Additional information, interview requests, comments:

Email: pr@akab.kz, info@akab.kz

Tel.:   +7 7(7172) 24 19 28;

+7 727 300 70 45

+7 771 506 85 49

Date: 18.04.2017