OREANDA-NEWS. According to the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", by the results of 2015 the total capacity of the automobile market of Moscow and the Moscow region was 476 billion rubles, which is less by 29% than a year ago. This figure takes into account the size of the market of new passenger cars in the metropolitan region, which fell by 43% to 302 thousand units in the last year.

Muscovites in 2015 have spent 346 billion rubles for passenger cars - less by 27% than the year before. And costs of residents of Moscow were 130 billion rubles, which is less by 34% than in 2014.

As the agency "AUTOSTAT" reported previously, for the purchase of new passenger cars Russians spent 1.78 trillion rubles in the last year. Thus, the share of capital region had over a quarter of this amount.