New car market in Russia: February 2025 figures are released

According to the AEB Automobile Manufacturers Committee, a total of 79,941 new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles were sold in Russia in February 2025, decreasing by 24% compared to February last year. It includes all alternative supply channels.

According to data obtained from PPC JSC, the market size in February 2025 was 80,497 units. The sales results of new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Russia in the first two months of the current year were lower than the sales for the same period last year by 10.5%, down to 170,964 units.

Alexey Kalitsev, Chairman of the Automobile Manufacturers Committee, comments:
"February confirmed the market participants' forecasts for the first half of 2025. Factors like increased disposal fee rates, high costs and reduced availability of loans, along with changes in the tax system, led to a 24% decrease in sales compared to the same period last year. February 2025 hit the ten-year antirecord, excluding only February 2023. The downward sales trend is likely to continue in the near future. Nevertheless, we remain optimistic that the situation will stabilize and the market will recover in the second half of the year, not without customer support measures provided by the State. In light of this, we currently maintain our previously announced forecast of 1.4 million vehicles to be sold this year.”

Additional information is available on the AEBRus website.

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