Business news from Ukraine

Business news from Ukraine

In April Ukrainians bought record number of used foreign cars – Ukravtoprom

Primary registrations of used cars imported from abroad in April 2023 increased by almost 8% compared to March 2023 – up to 15.3 thousand units, which was the highest number of registrations per month since the beginning of the year, said the association “Ukravtoprom” in Telegram-channel.
The largest share in this segment of the car market belongs to gasoline cars – 45%, followed by diesel cars – 36%, electric cars – 11%, cars with HFO – 5% and hybrids – 3%.
The average age of used cars that switched to Ukrainian plates in April is 11 years.
According to the Association, the top five of the market of used cars compared to March has not changed: the most popular is still Renault Megane – 1273 units, the second result has Volkswagen Golf – 1180 units, the third – Skoda Octavia – 794 units. Volkswagen Passat (694 units) and Ford Focus (377 units) are at the end of the leading five.
Besides, the TOP-10 of the month includes: Nissan Leaf – 366 units; Nissan Qashqai – 337 units; VW Touran – 320 units; Skoda Fabia – 277 units; AUDI A4 – 270 units.
As reported with reference to Ukravtoprom, 5.16 thousand new cars were registered in Ukraine in April, i.e. almost three times less.
“Ukravtoprom” informs that in January-April, 54.5 thousand used cars, imported from abroad, got the first registration in Ukraine, which is 3.3 times more than the sales of new cars during the same period.
Ukrainians in 2022 registered 388.5 thousand imported used foreign cars, which is nearly a quarter less than a year earlier, but more than 10 times more than the market of new cars.

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Market of new passenger cars in Ukraine grew by 21% – “Ukravtoprom”

Primary new passenger cars in March this year increased by 21% compared to February this year – up to 4,511 units, said “Ukravtoprom” in Telegram-channel.
The Association says that the demand for passenger cars increased 8 times compared with March of the last year, but only because of the low comparison base (March 2022 was the first month of full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine – IF-U).
Toyota remains the leader of registrations – 648 units, second place again belongs to Renault with 438 cars (in February the brand was 5th), third place – to Volkswagen with registrations of 432 cars.
Fourth place went to BMW with 355 cars, and Skoda was at the bottom of the list in March with 346 cars.
Bestseller of the first month of spring in the Ukrainian market of new passenger cars was the crossover Renault Duster, which was chosen by 414 buyers.
At the same time more than a third of March market was formed by 10 popular models – Renault Duster is followed by Hyundai Tucson (171 units), then Mazda CX5 (171), Volkswagen ID.4 (149), Toyota RAV-4 (131), Toyota Camry (110), Suzuki Vitara (105), Volkswagen Touareg (101), DongFeng/Honda M-NV (100) and BMW X7 (99 units).
In total, 11.2 thousand new cars were registered in Ukraine in the first quarter, which is almost as much as in the past, states Ukravtoprom.

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