OREANDA-NEWS. Russian dealers of Skoda sold 4,985 cars in May - more by 5.9% than a year before. According to the results of five months of 2017, sales of the Czech brand in our country were 23,045 cars, which is more by 4.3% than in the same period of the last year. As a result, Skoda ranked eighth by sales among all automakers in Russia, and the market share of the brand was 4.0%, according to AEB data.

Skoda's best seller remains a compact liftback Rapid in the Russian market in May - this model was chosen by 2406 customers (+ 0.5%). At the beginning of May, Russian brand dealers began the accepting of orders for the updated Skoda Rapid, which will go on sale in July, reported the press service of Skoda Auto Russia.

The second place among the models of Skoda is occupied by Octavia, whose sales were 1747 units (-2.8%). Recall, sales of the new Octavia started in Russia in April.