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Market of new commercial vehicles in Ukraine decreased 2.3 times

5 January , 2023  

Ukrainian park of new trucks and special vehicles in 2021 added 6.9 thousand new cars, which is 2.3 times less than in 2021, says “Ukravtoprom” in Telegram-channel.
Leader in sales of the year, as well as last year, was Renault brand with a drop in sales by 59% – down to 1221 units. Second place went to Mercedes-Benz, the registration of which decreased only by 11% – to 667 units. In 2021, the brand was not in the top five.
Citroen, having lost one position vs. 2021, and having reduced registrations by 71% to 628 units, moved down to number three in the ranking. Fiat moved to #4 (vs. #3 a year earlier) with a 71% drop in sales to 501 makes.
MAN is at the end of the year’s top five, which sales only reduced by 5% – down to 467 units. In 2021 this ranking is occupied by Belarusian MAZ.
“Ukravtoprom notes that in December 2022 registrations of new commercial cars were reduced more than twice in comparison with December 2021 – to 922 thousand units, which, however, almost twice more than in November last year.
The leader of the month was also Renault with 286 cars and an increase of 57% over December 2021, the second place went to Mercedes-Benz – 110 units (+10%), and the third place went to Volvo with an increase in sales of 5,5 times – up to 82 cars.
Also in the top five December brands ranking were FIAT – 62 units (-74%) and Iveco – 54 units (-7%).
As reported, according to Ukratoprom, in 2021, market for new trucks and specialty vehicles increased by 37% compared with the previous year – up to 15.9 thousand cars, including an increase in December by 15% – to 1.873 thousand units.