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Toyota and Peugeot Citroen began to sell more cars.
Toyota boosted car sales in Russia during the first half of 2012. at 29% compared with the same period last year-up to 83.5 million. pieces. The first place belongs to sales of Toyota Corolla-17.4 thous. cars sold (up 30%), followed by the Toyota Camry-16.8 thousand units (1.5 times), the third place was taken by Toyota RAV4-13.9 thousand vehicles (increase by 9.3%), the press-service of the company. While sales of Lexus (Toyota owns the brand) for the first half of this year amounted to $ 6.7 million. the following indicators. at 6.8%. The most popular is the Lexus RX-2.9 thousand. cars, including a hybrid version of the model (9.1%). Today, however, it became known that Russia's car sales in the Peugeot Citroen group grew during the first half of 2012. by 17.1%. Just Russia party has 41 thousand. car compared to 35 thousand. in the first half of 2011, the market share of the Group increased by 0.1 percentage points to 2.8%. We remind that on July 4 this year, Peugeot-Citroen, in conjunction with partner Mitsubishi Motors launched at the plant in Kaluga full-cycle production of Peugeot 408. This is the first model of Peugeot Citroen, which will be fully carried out in Russia based on assembling from CKD kits like Assembly. Meanwhile, global sales by PSA Peugeot Citroen France in the first half of 2012. decreased compared to the same period of last year by 13% to 1.62 million units (finished vehicles plus assembling CKD kits). In particular, sales of finished cars decreased by 10.7% to 1.476 million reported in the group. The fall in sales volumes, the largest French automaker due to the economic downturn in Europe, where the market share of the Peugeot Citroen fell from 13.9% to 12.9%. "Indicators of the group remain vulnerable to an unfavourable country mix of sales: the most promising markets for Peugeot and Citroen brands – France, Spain and Italy-while suffering from a deep recession," the press release said. We remind that the sale of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Russia in January-April of 2012. increased by 18% to 880 000. 540 pieces. First place in sales in January-April of 2012. occupied by cars brands Lada-159.5 million. Auto, 14% less than in the same period. Second place kept the Renault cars (57217 pieces, +26%), the third is Hyundai (56908 pieces, +34%) also in the top 10 include KIA, Chevrolet, Nissan, Volkswagen, Toyota, Ford and Skoda. "In the second quarter continued steady growth in the Russian automobile market. Although the trend of recent months demonstrates the stabilization of the rate of annual growth at a level below 15%, we nevertheless believe that the prediction market cars and AEB regarding light commercial vehicles should be increased to 50.000 pieces up to 2.85 million, "said Committee Chairman DR. David Thomas automakers Association of European businesses.
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