Used car market growing in Tatarstan — which cars selling well and which losing demand

Sales of Lada cars increased, Toyota — decreased

In the first five months of 2024, Tatarstan residents purchased 64 274 used cars — this is by 3.6% more than in the same period of 2023, when slightly more than 62 thousand cars were purchased.

Lada remains the most popular brand — the market of domestic used cars has grown by 19.4% (the largest indicator — ed.), to almost 19 thousand. Sales of Japanese Toyota fell the most — by 18.5%, from 2.8 to 2.3 thousand.

In general, only four brands out of the top 10 began to sell better. In addition to the above'mentioned Lada, these are South Korean Kia and Hyundai — 5.4% and 4.7%, respectively, as well as French Renault (+5.4%).

It is also worth noting that there was not a single Chinese brand in the top. But there are BMW and Skoda, which, looking ahead, are not in the Russian top. The full layout is presented below.

Sales of Niva increase by a third in Tatarstan

Lada is also the leader among the models, which took exactly half of the top 10. These are Lada 2114 (first place, 2 593 cars sold), Granta (fourth place, 1 605), 4X4 (sixth place, 1 121) Kalina (eighth place, 962), Priora (ninth place, 955). It is noteworthy that among all domestic cars, sales decreased only for the latter, and even then only by 0.6%. But Lada 4X4 or Niva jumped in demand — by more than 28%.

Kia Rio has become the most popular foreign car in Tatarstan. In January'May 2024, 2 485 such cars were sold (+10.2%). They are followed by Hyundai Solaris (1983, +7.5%) and Volkswagen Polo (1177, -7.8%). Let us note that Rio cars, like Solaris, are the most popular cars in Russian taxi companies.

In Russia, the demand for all used cars from the top 10 in sales has decreased, except for Lada

In general, in the five months of 2024, 2.25 million used passenger cars were bought in Russia — by only 0.1% less than in January-May 2023. Lada is also the leader in the country, but in general the top five are different — Toyota, Kia, Hyundai and Nissan. The latter, by the way, is only the 10th in popularity in Tatarstan.

There are also Honda and Ford in the Russian top, which are not present in Tatarstan. Another trend is that sales of all brands, except Lada, decreased compared to last year. Used car market in details — shown in the table.