The number of car dealerships in Russia has decreased since the beginning of the year

In the first three quarters of 2025, the number of car dealerships in Russia decreased by 131 units and reached 2,975 by the beginning of October. At the same time, the number of dealer contracts has increased by 220 since the beginning of the year and reached 4,302. Sergey Tselikov, director of the Autostat analytical agency, told about this in his Telegram channel on November 14.

"The explanation for this "dealer paradox" is simple — there is a process of "multiplication of entities." And the business is not growing at the same time. In places, it "shrinks," Tselikov explained and gave several examples.

Thus, almost all Chery dealers received the status of Tenet dealers in the third quarter of this year, as a result of which the number of dealer contracts increased by 217 units. The network of the Russian Solaris brand has also grown (+48 units), and it was not necessary to build new dealerships, since it is based on Kia and Hyundai dealers. Also this year, new networks of Knewstar, KGM, Lixiang, Rox, Avatr and AmberAuto brands appeared, and the number of contracts for other brands increased.

At the same time, since the beginning of the year, the networks of such brands as BAIC, FAW (Bestune), Dongfeng, JAC, Jaecoo, Omoda, Jetour, Jetta, Kaiyi, Livan, Xcite, Skywell and Exeed have decreased. The number of dealers of global brands also continues to decrease: Toyota, Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Kia, Hyundai, BMW, Audi, Mazda and other brands. As a result, almost 800 contracts were terminated and more than 1,000 new ones were concluded in three quarters.

"Over the past two years, the number of cancellations and arrests has been even higher. But then there was a process of "replacing global brands with Chinese ones." And now there is a movement "from some Chinese to others," the expert added.

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The day before, it was reported that by November, car inventories for a number of brands had noticeably depleted. Gaps have already begun to appear in the model ranges of distributors who have not replenished car stocks, as some models are running out, and cars in some trim levels and body colors are no longer available, dealers said.

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