Initial registrations of used passenger cars imported to Ukraine from abroad in September 2023 did not change compared to August, but increased by 34% compared to September 2022 – to more than 21 thousand units, the Ukravtoprom association reported on its Telegram channel on Monday.
As reported, the August (2023) addition of used cars to the country’s fleet was the largest in the previous 12 months.
According to the association, the largest share in the segment of imported used cars in September, as before, belongs to gasoline cars – 44% (in August – 45%), followed by diesel cars – 31% (32%), electric cars – 16% (15%), cars with LPG – 5% (unchanged) and hybrids – 4% (3%).
Volkswagen Golf remains the leader in registrations (1575 units), and the top five remained unchanged compared to August: Renault Megane (1299 units), Skoda Octavia (923 units), Volkswagen Passat (755 units) and Nissan Leaf (590 units).
The TOP-10 of this market also includes AUDI A4 (414 units), Volkswagen Touran (406 units), Tesla Model 3 (405 units), Volkswagen Tiguan (401 units) and Nissan Qashqai (398 units).
The average age of used cars that switched to Ukrainian license plates in August is almost 10 years.
Overall, in January-September this year, 148 thousand used cars imported from abroad were registered for the first time in Ukraine, which is 3.4 times more than the number of new cars sold in the same period.
As reported, in 2022, Ukrainians registered 388.5 thousand imported used passenger cars, which is almost a quarter less than a year earlier, but more than 10 times more than the market for new passenger cars.
