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UKRAINIAN USED CAR MARKET EXCEEDS NEW CAR SALES BY 4.4 TIMES IN 2020

6 March , 2020  

Ukrainians in January-February 2020 registered 61,000 imported used cars, which is almost 4.4 times higher than new car sales (14,000 cars), Ukrautoprom has reported. In January-February of 2020, the most popular passenger car among imported used cars was Volkswagen Passat with 3,585 cars registered.
Renault Megane (3,485 cars) took the second place, Skoda Octavia was in the third place with a result of 3,307 cars, then Volkswagen Golf (2,675 registrations) and Ford Focus with 2,310 registered cars.
As reported, in 2019, due to the provided legislative preferences, the primary registrations of imported used cars grew by 3.3 times from 2018, to 400,597 cars, while the new passenger cars market grew by only 14%, to 78,386 cars.