OREANDA-NEWS. According to the agency “Auto-Dealer-SPb", in January of 2016 in St. Petersburg it was sold 6460 new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles, which is less by 22% than a year ago. Last time it was sold less of cars in January of 2010 per one month, when the St. Petersburg dealers have sold a little over 5,000 cars.

Market leadership is captured by Hyundai - brand, whose sales grew five months in a row in the last year, was in the red this time (672 units, -17%.) that did not prevent it to be in the first place. The Korean brand was the only one, which remained in the top 3 in comparison with the results of 2015. KIA (537 units, -30%) and Renault (436 units, -53%) gave places for LADA (627 units, + 33%) and Volkswagen (567 units, 11%) in January.

Just three brands in the top-10 for the month showed an increase in the sales of cars – they are LADA, Ford and Mercedes-Benz. The launch to the market of Vesta model has helped domestic brand, which is occupied already a little over 15% in the structure of the model range of LADA in St. Petersburg. Ford has increased due to the low base of the last year; it will help the brand to increase sales for at least another two months. Mercedes-Benz traditionally begins the year with increasing sales volumes of cars. The leader by the fall was the Swedish group Volvo, which lowered sales by 97%.

The share of St. Petersburg in the total volume of new passenger cars in Russia was 7.9% in January of 2016.