Cars With "automatic" Are Losing Audience: Rating Of The Most Popular Models Of February

2023 Author: Natalie MacDonald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-11-26 13:59

In February 2021, 69.8 thousand new passenger cars equipped with an automatic transmission were sold in Russia: a classic "automatic", "robot" or CVT. This is 3.1% less than a year earlier, but their share in the total volume of new cars increased to 61.7% (plus 1.2 points). We found out which models were the most popular.

The AEB statistics that we used to compile the February ranking do not include sales of BMW, Mercedes-Benz, MINI and Smart: these manufacturers report their sales results on a quarterly basis.

brand, model	February 2021, pcs.	Dynamics, month,%	Total 2021, pcs.	Dynamics, year,%	Share, 2021,%	Dynamics share,%
KiRio	7710	16,3	14518	26,3	87,8	9,4
Hyundai creta	5309	6,3	9861	8,4	79,7	3,9
Hyundai solaris	4423	25,8	7244	16,4	80,5	1,4
ToyotRAV4	3619	5,1	5827	-1,2	94,1	0,5
Volkswagen tiguan	2615	1,1	4507	-3,9	96,1	5,6
Volkswagen polo	2532	11,0	4409	-6,1	61,8	-1,2
KiSportage	1943	3,6	3602	-9,5	90,4	6,2
ToyotCamry	1845	-23,9	3183	-27,6	100,0	-
KiK5	1695	-	3158	-	100,0	-
SkodRapid	1552	57,6	2748	44,3	53,9	6,3

The best-selling automatic car is KiRio. The demand for them in February rose by 16.3%, this is one of the best indicators. According to the results of two months, sales of the model increased by a quarter. In addition, the share of Rio with two pedals has become noticeably larger - it has added 9.4 points, almost 88% of cars are sold in this version.

The best dynamics in the top 10 was noted by SkodRapid, the demand for it increased more than one and a half times, although the reason is the falling sales of the previous generation Rapids in early 2020, the manufacturer was preparing to launch an updated version on the market. In February, only one rating model went negative - ToyotCamry.

LadVesta got very close to the top 10, which only slightly lagged behind SkodRapid: in February, 1499 cars with a CVT were sold (plus 11.4%). In 2 months, 2664 cars were sold (plus 8%). Their share in the total sales of the model increased to 17.7% (plus 1.9 points).

Other Lads with automatic transmissions - Grant and Xray - are not very popular. Only 798 people (plus 3.2%) bought cars of the Grant family in February and 1374 people (minus 7.7%) in 2 months. Their share is 7.8% (minus 0.4 points). Xray was used by 307 people (minus 13.8%) and 588 people (minus 14.2%), respectively. The share fell to 16.1% (minus 8.5 points).

Compared to KiOptim, the K5 is selling much better: plus 11.1% in February and plus 2.4% in 2 months.

In just 2 months, dealers sold 125.3 thousand passenger cars with automatic transmission (minus 1.4%). Their share in the total volume of new cars increased by 2 points, to 61.9%.