Kazakhstan October 2013: Renault Duster in Top 10

Renault Duster sales are up 793% year-on-year in Kazakhstan in October…

* See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Irina *

Thanks to Irina from www.akab.kz, I can share with you October sales data for Kazakhstan, one of the (if not the) most dynamic car markets in the world this year. This month the Kazakh new car market is up a mammoth 73% year-on-year to 17,056 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 133,150 units, up an equally out-of-this-world 76% on 2012. To put things in perspective, let’s remind ourselves that the previous 2 best-ever Full Years for new car sales in Kazakhstan were 2012 at 95,313 registrations and 2007 at 60,513!

The SsangYong Kyron is the #15 best-seller in Kazakhstan this month.

The top of the models ranking is stable with the Lada Priora (+26%), Samara (+45%), UZ-Daewoo Nexia (+67%) and Lada Granta (+72%) leading the way like in the year-to-date ranking, while the Hyundai Accent is up one spot on September to #5, passing the Lada 4×4 down 2 to #6, and the GAZ Gazelle and Lada Largus exchange positions to #7 and #8 respectively. The best performance this month is delivered by the Renault Duster breaking into the Kazakh Top 10 for the first time since BSCB has been following Kazakh sales monthly last May, up a huge 793% year-on-year to #9 with 395 sales and 2.3% share.

The Mitsubishi ASX makes its first appearance in the Kazakh Top 30 this month.

Notice also the VW Polo up one further rank on September to #11 vs. #22 year-to-date, the SsangYong Kyron up 200% year-on-year to #15, Toyota Corolla up 209% to #16, Skoda Rapid up 4 spots to #18, Kia Sportage up 190% to #24, Hyundai Tucson up 783% to #27 and the Mitsubishi ASX making its first appearance inside the Kazakh Top 30 at #28 with 158 sales and 0.9% share.

Previous month: Kazakhstan September 2013: Lada Largus and UAZ Bukhanka strong

Previous year: Kazakhstan Full Year 2012: Lada Priora and Samara on top

Full October 2013 Top 30 models Ranking Table below.