"AvtoVAZ continues to maintain leadership in the market: according to Avtostat, its sales doubled in September, to almost 35 thousand cars.
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At the same time, brands from China continue to grow in sales. Chery is in the lead, sales of which are growing almost 3.2 times, to 12.1 thousand units. Haval increased sales by 3.5 times, to 11.1 thousand cars, Geely - by 3.3 times, to 9.2 thousand.
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In the Autostat statistics, in addition to official supplies by distributors, there are also parallel imports, so the top 10 also includes brands that have ceased production in the Russian Federation. In past months it was Kia, Toyota and Hyundai, but in September Hyundai dropped out of the ranking. Last month, 2.3 thousand cars with Kia and Toyota nameplates were sold each.
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The passenger car market in January-September grew by 51.1%, to 717.3 thousand units"
Basically AvtoVAZ (Lada) recovered its car production after switching to non-European suppliers for certain components of the Lada Vesta. While Western car manufacturer sales were replaced with Chinese car sales. At the same time more Chinese car production is happening inside Russia.
