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Demand for used cars in Ukraine has decreased by 5%, Volkswagen Golf remains leader of sales

6 March , 2025  

Ukrainian car fleet in February this year was replenished with almost 17 thousand imported from abroad used cars, which is 5% less than in February last year, reported “UkrAvtoprom” in the Telegram channel.

At the same time, compared to January-2025, the demand for such cars increased by more than 21%.

According to the report, the average age of used cars that switched to Ukrainian registration in February amounted to 9.5 years.

According to “UkrAvtoprom”, the largest share in the segment of imported second hand cars with a large gap belongs to gasoline cars – 46%. Next come diesel cars – 23%, electric cars – 22%, hybrids – 5% and cars with SBB – 4%.

The leader of this segment of the car market is Volkswagen Golf – 900 registrations.

The top five most popular models are also Renault Megane – 653 units, Skoda Octavia – 592 units, Volkswagen Tiguan – 490 units, Audi Q5 – 449 units.

In total, in January-February, the first registration in Ukraine passed almost 31 thousand used cars, which is 10% less than in the same period in 2024.

As reported, in 2024 the demand for used foreign cars increased by 4% by 2023 – up to 222.1 thousand units, which amounted to 75% of the passenger car market.

At the same time, in February the Ukrainian car fleet was replenished with 17.8 thousand used cars from abroad – one third more than in February-2023.