Sales of used cars in Russia increased by 6%

In March 2026, Russians purchased 475,000 used passenger cars. This is 15.3% more than a month earlier, and 6% higher than in March last year. This is stated in the report of the analytical agency Autostat, which was received by Izvestia on April 21.

Lada traditionally holds the market leadership among brands in terms of market volume — 111.9 thousand such used cars were purchased in the first month of spring. Toyota retains the second place, with an indicator of 50.3 thousand units. Then Kia and Hyundai follow closely to each other (25.3 thousand and 25.1 thousand units, respectively). Volkswagen rounded out the top five (21.4 thousand units). Nissan, Chevrolet, Honda, Renault and Ford rounded out the top ten.

In the top ten, all brands showed growth relative to the level of a month ago. With the exception of Kia (+9.1%), it exceeded 10% for other brands. In annual comparison, negative dynamics was recorded only for Lada (-7.8%), and Chevrolet (+26.9%) and Volkswagen (+24.5%) were the best performers by March 2025.

In total, in the first quarter of 2026, Russians became owners of 1.32 million used passenger cars. This is 4.6% more than in the three months of last year.

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As reported on March 19, in February 2026, Russian residents purchased 411.9 thousand used passenger cars. This is 5.7% less than a month earlier, but 3.7% higher than in February last year.