Primary registrations of used cars imported from abroad in May 2023 increased slightly (by 0.3%) up to almost 15.4 thousand units, which was the largest number of registrations per month since the beginning of the year, informed the association “Ukrautoprom” in Telegram channel.
“There is no point in comparing with last year’s May, because last year used cars were massively imported to Ukraine under ‘zero’ customs clearance,” the association said in a statement.
The largest share in this segment of the car market still belongs to gasoline cars – 45%, followed by diesel cars – 36%, electric cars – 12% (in April – 11%), vehicles with HBO – 5% and hybrids – 2% (3% in April).
The average age of used cars, which switched to Ukrainian plates in May, is 11 years (as in April), and the oldest car was Honda Prelude of 1992 production year.
According to the Association, in May the leader of registrations has changed – it was Volkswagen Golf (1333), pushing back Renault Megane (1230) to the second position.
Next come Skoda Octavia (840), Volkswagen Passat (694), Ford Focus (403), Nissan Leaf (388), Nissan Qashqai (360), VW Touran (326), AUDI A4 (297), Skoda Fabia (294).
As reported with reference to “Ukravtoprom”, new cars in Ukraine were registered 5.1 thousand in April, i.e. three times less.
“Ukravtoprom” reports that a total of 69.9 thousand used cars, imported from abroad, got the first registration in Ukraine in January-May, which is 3.2 times more than sales of new cars during the same period.
The Ukrainians in 2022 registered 388.5 thousand imported used cars foreign cars, which is nearly a quarter less than a year earlier, but more than 10 times more than the market of new cars.
