
Vedomosti published data on car sales in the country
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Statistics on sales of new passenger cars in the Russian Federation for the past month and nine months.
Last month, 115,060 new passenger cars were sold in Russia. These data from the Passport Industrial Consulting company were cited by Vedomosti.
The achieved result was six percent lower than that recorded at the end of September 2025.
AvtoVAZ took first place, increasing sales by eight percent, bringing them to 28,388 cars. Haval is in second position with a result of 13,400 cars sold (minus 20 percent in annual terms). Third place went to Tenet, whose sales rose to 12,423 vehicles. Geely remained in fourth place with a result of 6267 cars, and fifth place went to Changan (6125 units).
In general, based on the results of nine months, 960,059 new passenger cars were purchased in Russia.

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