Russia November 2013: Renault Duster on podium for first time!

The Renault Duster is now the third best-seller in all of Russia.

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The Russian new car market goes through its 9th consecutive month of year-on-year decline in November at -4% to 231,982 registrations, reducing the year-to-date fall to -6% at 2,513,163 units. Below the Lada Granta down 5% to 12,190 sales and the Hyundai Solaris up 4% to 9,672 units, the big event this month is the Renault Duster breaking into the Russian sales charts podium for the very first time thanks to 7,563 sales and 3.3% after breaking its monthly volume record last month. This is an exceptional achievement for Renault-Dacia and testimony that the value for money the SUV brings has resonated with Russian customers across the country. Year-to-date, the Duster is up 86% on 2012 to #4 with 75726 units and 3% share.

Lada Kalina

The 3 remaining Ladas in the Top 10 all perform very differently: the 4×4 (aka Niva) is once again amazingly up 47% year-on-year to rank #6 with 5,979 sales and 2.6% share. The Kalina is taking time to return to the levels the first generation was familiar with, but is drastically reducing its year-on-year fall this month: from -66% in August to -58% in October and -13% in November at #7 and 5,838 units. Finally the Largus, a rebadged first generation Logan MCV, is down two spots on October but up 110% year-on-year to #8 with 5,194 sales.

The Nissan Qashqai breaks into the Russian Top 10 for the first time this month.

Further down the ranking, the Nissan Qashqai breaks into the Russian Top 10 for the very first time, up 8 ranks on last month and 58% year-on-year to #10 with 4,397 sales and 1.9% which are also volume and market share records for the model in Russia, with its previous best achieved last February (#13). Other great performers this month include the Kia Cee’d up 76% on November 2012 to #14, the Kia Sportage up 4 spots on October to #17 and the Toyota Corolla up 60% year-on-year to #20.

Previous month: Russia October 2013: Renault Duster and Lada Largus break records, Toyota Corolla in Top 20

One year ago: Russia November 2012: Lada Granta reigns, Samara’s last breath?

Full November 2013 Top 20 models and Top 55 All-brands Ranking Tables below.