Sales of new passenger cars in Ukraine in July increased by 11% compared to the same month last year, reaching 6,700 units, which is also 8% more than in June 2025, according to Auto-Consulting.
Analysts note that sales in July could have been even higher, but this was hampered by difficulties with car registration in the last days of the month.
“But despite these obstacles, the results for July were very encouraging, as the car market has already moved into positive territory for the first seven months of the year, with growth of +0.84%,” the report said.
Auto-Consulting notes interesting changes among brands. Toyota retained first place, with sales up 3.5% to 918 units in June this year.
“For the first time in history, BYD took second place in the Ukrainian market, overtaking three competitors and pushing VW out of this position. BYD was preferred by 11% of Ukrainian consumers, which is a record among Chinese cars, and the BYD Song model also took second place among the most popular models,” Auto-Consulting reports.
Analysts note that neither Skoda nor Renault could withstand BYD’s relentless pressure, and most importantly, Volkswagen took three steps back, whose high performance is also maintained thanks to electric vehicle deliveries from China.
They also note the growing popularity of Honda, which moved up to sixth place from eighth in June with a 21.4% increase in sales to 323 units.
“BMW and Audi (8th and 9th place) slightly improved their positions, while another phenomenon of this year, Zeekr, lost some ground but remained in the top 10 of the Ukrainian car market,” the report says.
At the same time, analysts express surprise at the decline of Mercedes-Benz, which in July, as in June, ranked only 16th in the rating.
“Mercedes-Benz is no longer leading the premium car ranking in the Ukrainian market, nor is it even among the top three in the premium segment (BMW, Audi, Lexus),” analysts note.
Auto-Consulting believes that the trends observed in the car market in terms of brand positioning will continue until the end of the electric vehicle incentives, “and then it will be time for other forces to come into play.”
In turn, the Ukravtoprom association reported on Telegram that last month Ukrainians purchased more than 6,400 new passenger cars, 1% more than in July last year and 7% more than in June this year.
According to the association, the leading brand Toyota reduced its sales by 20% to July 2024, to 820 units, while BYD is rapidly catching up, improving last year’s result by 3.2 times, to 744 units, and jumping to second place in the ranking from ninth last year.
The top ten also includes Renault with 654 units (+11%); Skoda with 559 units (+48%); Volkswagen with 491 units (+47%); Honda with 319 units (+9%); Hyundai with 298 units (+32%); BMW with 263 units (-58%); Audi with 253 units (+20%); and Zeekr with 191 units (+125%).
“Since the beginning of the year, about 39,300 new passenger cars have been registered in the country, which is only 0.1% more than last year,” Ukravtoprom reports.
As reported, according to AUTO-Consulting, in 2024, sales of new passenger cars in Ukraine will grow by 9.8% compared to 2023, to 71,300 units, and according to Ukravtoprom, initial registrations will increase by 14%, to 69,600 units.
The Federation of Automobile Employers of Ukraine (FAU), citing data from Auto-Consulting, has published statistics on sales of new passenger cars.
According to the data, 33.773 thousand passenger cars were sold in Ukraine in January-June.
The first six places in the market remained unchanged compared to May: Toyota is in the lead with sales of 887 cars (4% more than in June 2024, but 20% less than in May 2025), Volkswagen is in second place, with sales more than doubling in June compared to June 2024 – up to 557 units, Renault is third with 547 cars (+32%).
The fourth place is taken by Skoda, which in June increased sales by 69% compared to June last year – 454 units, BYD has already steadily gained a foothold in fifth place thanks to the import of electric cars (453 units), and Huyndai was sixth (284 cars and an increase of 73% compared to June last year).
Zeekr has also increased its influence – now these Chinese electric cars are in seventh place in the Ukrainian market and are ahead of all premium brands in terms of sales.
“It was the import of electric vehicles from China that ensured Honda’s eighth place in June, and contributed to the popularity of many other cars,” according to Auto-Consulting.
The demand for German premium cars remains strong. BMW is the leader here (257 cars – 53% less than in June 2014), followed by Audi with 233 cars (+47%). Both German brands took 9th and 10th place in the Ukrainian market in June.
The FAU also cites Auto-Consulting statistics on sales of light commercial vehicles (LCVs), according to which in June they decreased by 9% compared to June 2024, amounting to 637 units, and for the first half of the year – by 4.6% compared to the same period last year, to 3,856 thousand units.
Thus, in the overall market of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles, the share of LCVs in June amounted to 9.3% (12.2% last year), and for the first half of the year – 10.2% (10.6%).
In this segment, Citroen had the best result in June, with sales up 62% by May 2025, but down 40% by June 2024, to 146 units. Renault was second with sales of 80 vehicles (57% less than in June 2024), and Peugeot took third place with 70 vehicles compared to 27 last year.
At the same time, in the first half of the year, Renault is the leader with a market share of 16.55% and sales of 638 cars (down 58% year-on-year), followed by Citroen – 522 units (-15%) and Ford – 458 units (+87%).
The Volkswagen auto concern has forced to suspend the production of cars at several factories in Germany due to the cessation of supplies of components from Ukraine after the start of Russian military aggression.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the automaker has created a working group whose task is to assess the risks and find ways to ensure the uninterrupted production of cars.
The largest Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg is operating normally this week, however, according to the concern’s forecasts, car production will have to be reduced next week, and production will be completely stopped in another week.
Supply disruptions will also affect the work of the Hannover truck plant and enterprises that produce auto parts.
Earlier, Volkswagen had to suspend the work of enterprises in Dresden, as well as in Zwickau, where electric vehicles are produced, in particular, the ID.4 model exported to the United States.
The primary registrations of imported used cars in Ukraine in January-June 2019 totaled 250,100, which is almost six times more than a year ago, the Ukrautoprom association has reported.
The Volkswagen brand remains the leader of registrations in the first six months of 2019 (48,793), Opel is in the second position (24,414), Audi is third (19,072), Renault is fourth (18,822), and Skoda is fifth (17,766.).
According to the association, in June, the Ukrainians registered 19,200 imported used cars, which was the lowest since the beginning of the year, but compared to June last year, registration increased 2.2-fold.
Cars aged from 5 to 10 accounted for the largest share in the registrations of used imported cars – 46%. Cars older than 10 years covered 35% of the June market, the remaining 19% were cars under the age of five years.
The most popular Volkswagen brand registered 2,960 vehicles last month, followed by Skoda (1,742), Renault (1,588), Ford (1,393) and Opel (1,321).
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