Russia September 2021: Kia teases Lada for #1, Haval, Chery & Geely break records, sales off -22.6%

October 8, 2021
Matt Gasnier
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The Chery Tiggo 7 becomes the first Chinese model to rank inside the Russian Top 20.

The Russian new car market dives -22.6% year-on-year in September to 119.485 units, leading to a year-to-date tally up 15.1% to 1.260.111. The next few months aren’t looking good either as the microchip and semi-conductor crisis continues. As a result we have downgraded our 2021 Forecast for Russia to 1.64m units (+2.8%). Homegrown behemoth Lada (-51.3%) implodes this month and only clings onto the brands pole position for just 152 sales ahead of Kia (-16.5%) resisting much better. Hyundai (-25.9%) falls slightly faster than the market but sports a strong 11.4% share vs. 10.5% so far this year. Toyota (+18.2%) completely bucks the negative trend and is up to #4 overall for the first time since December 2018, hitting new share record at 8.4% with its previous best being 7.8% hit in both February 2014 and March 2020.

Volkswagen (-27.4%), Renault (-46.4%) and Skoda (-33%) follow, all struggling, while GAZ (+16.8%) impresses at #8. The Top 3 Chinese carmakers in Russia all break their volume and share records this month. Haval (+147%) is up to 3.513 sales and 2.9% share at #10, Chery (+134.1%) is up to 3.488 units and 2.9% share also at #11 and Geely (+20%) is up to 2.613 sales and 2.2% share at #13. Despite the significant market loss, year-on-year gainers are fairly common further down the charts and include Chevrolet (+225%), Genesis (+173.6%), Opel (+123.3%), Lexus (+54.6%), Peugeot (+36%), Cadillac (+34.3%), FAW (+21.8%), Citroen (+20.9%), Mazda (+19.1%), Audi (+14.5%), Jeep (+5.8%) and Suzuki (+3.9%).

Over in the models ranking which now includes LCVs, the Lada Vesta (-24.3%) repeats at #1 despite a hefty loss, distancing the Kia Rio (-15.3%) and a reinvigorated Hyundai Solaris (+15.7%). The GAZ Gazelle (+13%) appears at #4 ahead of the VW Polo (-30.5%) and Skoda Rapid PA II (+6.7%). Still leader year-to-date, the Lada Granta (-69.9%) falls even further this month to #7 while the Hyundai Creta (-50.6%) halves its September 2020 volume but remains the most popular SUV in the country above the Toyota RAV4 (-17.6%) and Renault Duster (-1.5%). Great performance by the renewed Kia Sorento (+27.4%) up two spots on August to #17. For the third month in a row there is a Chinese model in the Russian Top 25 and it’s a different one again: the Chery Tiggo 7 (+414.7%) becomes the first Chinese fare to rank inside the Top 20 at #20. Finally, notice the Toyota Prado (+382.2%) shooting up year-on-year at #26.

Previous month: Russia August 2021: Chery up to record #9, Lada Vesta best-seller in market down -17%

One year ago: Russia September 2020: Volumes up 3.4%, Skoda (+31%) shines, Geely up to Chinese record #12

Full September 2021 Top 50 All-brands and Top 25 models below.

Russia September 2021 – brands:

Pos	Brand	Sep-21	%	/20	Aug	2021	%	/20	Pos	FY20
1	Lada	17,189	14.4%	-51.3%	1	268,849	21.3%	18.1%	1	1
2	Kia	17,037	14.3%	-16.5%	2	159,729	12.7%	14.5%	2	2
3	Hyundai	13,624	11.4%	-25.9%	3	132,183	10.5%	15.9%	3	3
4	Toyota	10,039	8.4%	18.2%	5	71,450	5.7%	8.0%	7	7
5	Volkswagen	7,752	6.5%	-27.4%	6	72,438	5.7%	2.2%	6	5
6	Renault	7,511	6.3%	-46.4%	4	98,501	7.8%	11.9%	4	4
7	Skoda	6,438	5.4%	-33.0%	7	72,647	5.8%	11.5%	5	6
8	GAZ	5,199	4.4%	16.8%	8	38,802	3.1%	22.2%	8	9
9	Nissan	4,092	3.4%	-27.2%	10	35,796	2.8%	-11.7%	9	8
10	Haval	3,513	2.9%	147.0%	12	25,053	2.0%	115.1%	12	16
11	Chery	3,488	2.9%	134.1%	9	24,688	2.0%	287.9%	13	21
12	UAZ	3,360	2.8%	-11.7%	11	22,147	1.8%	2.4%	14	12
13	Geely	2,613	2.2%	20.0%	13	16,651	1.3%	70.9%	17	17
14	Mitsubishi	2,534	2.1%	-18.1%	18	18,554	1.5%	-5.4%	16	13
15	Mazda	2,048	1.7%	19.1%	16	21,109	1.7%	16.2%	15	14
16	Ford	2,003	1.7%	27.3%	15	14,012	1.1%	57.3%	19	20
17	Lexus	1,947	1.6%	54.6%	14	15,940	1.3%	12.7%	18	15
18	Audi	1,655	1.4%	14.5%	17	13,903	1.1%	37.2%	20	18
19	Suzuki	820	0.7%	3.9%	20	7,449	0.6%	38.0%	21	24
20	Volvo	800	0.7%	-3.8%	19	6,908	0.5%	39.7%	22	23
21	Peugeot	737	0.6%	36.0%	21	6,184	0.5%	106.2%	23	30
22	Subaru	616	0.5%	-19.5%	22	4,870	0.4%	18.1%	24	27
23	Land Rover	475	0.4%	-21.0%	23	4,786	0.4%	14.9%	25	26
24	Changan	453	0.4%	-55.6%	26	3,639	0.3%	-24.3%	28	25
25	FAW	442	0.4%	21.8%	27	2,544	0.2%	36.2%	30	32
26	Cheryexeed	398	0.3%	new	30	2,322	0.2%	new	32	49
27	Citroen	394	0.3%	20.9%	28	3,455	0.3%	55.8%	29	31
28	Genesis	383	0.3%	173.6%	24	2,454	0.2%	143.7%	31	41
29	Cadillac	329	0.3%	34.3%	29	2,045	0.2%	99.9%	34	38
30	Porsche	237	0.2%	-57.8%	25	4,611	0.4%	7.2%	26	28
31	Opel	230	0.2%	123.3%	32	1,462	0.1%	379.3%	36	45
32	Chevrolet	169	0.1%	225.0%	41	464	0.0%	18.4%	44	46
33	Jeep	145	0.1%	5.8%	33	1,302	0.1%	5.8%	38	36
34	Volkswagen Vans	130	0.1%	-70.9%	31	4,084	0.3%	11.7%	27	29
35	Infiniti	129	0.1%	-51.0%	36	1,528	0.1%	18.4%	35	34
36	Fiat	113	0.1%	-31.5%	34	922	0.1%	0.9%	40	40
37	Dongfeng (DFM)	107	0.1%	1.9%	38	261	0.0%	-63.4%	47	44
38	Honda	93	0.1%	9.4%	35	999	0.1%	-15.2%	39	37
39	GAC	74	0.1%	new	39	525	0.0%	new	43	–
40	Iveco	53	0.0%	15.2%	43	378	0.0%	50.6%	46	47
41	Isuzu	50	0.0%	-31.5%	37	575	0.0%	-16.7%	41	43
42	Lifan	32	0.0%	-76.8%	42	569	0.0%	-43.3%	42	39
43	Jaguar	28	0.0%	-65.9%	40	405	0.0%	-39.9%	45	42
44	Brilliance	4	0.0%	-85.2%	44	100	0.0%	-26.5%	48	48
45	Zotye	1	0.0%	-91.7%	45	44	0.0%	-72.2%	49	51
46	Foton	1	0.0%	-96.0%	46	34	0.0%	-47.7%	50	52
47	Chrysler	0	0.0%	n/a	–	2	0.0%	-90.9%	51	54
48	Hyundai LCV	0	0.0%	-100.0%	–	2	0.0%	-98.6%	52	50
–	BMW (reports quarterly)	n/a	n/a	n/a	–	35,500	2.8%	19.6%	10	10
–	Mercedes (reports quarterly)	n/a	n/a	n/a	–	33,805	2.7%	22.9%	11	11
–	Mini (reports quarterly)	n/a	n/a	n/a	–	2,109	0.2%	15.9%	33	33
–	Mercedes Vans (reports quarterly)	n/a	n/a	n/a	–	1,321	0.1%	14.5%	37	35
–	Smart (reports quarterly)	n/a	n/a	n/a	–	1	0.0%	-98.2%	53	53

Russia September 2021 – models:

Pos	Model	Sep-21	%	/20	Aug	2021	%	/20	Pos	FY20
1	Lada Vesta	8,724	7.3%	-24.3%	1	82,860	6.6%	14.3%	2	2
2	Kia Rio	6,635	5.6%	-15.3%	2	63,220	5.0%	7.7%	3	3
3	Hyundai Solaris	6,258	5.2%	15.7%	5	48,840	3.9%	48.6%	5	6
4	GAZ Gazelle	4,347	3.6%	13.0%	n/a	32,847	2.6%	17.9%		n/a
5	VW Polo	4,186	3.5%	-30.5%	9	39,689	3.1%	-4.7%	7	5
6	Skoda Rapid PA II	4,002	3.3%	6.7%	11	33,948	2.7%	122.6%	8	15
7	Lada Granta	3,886	3.3%	-68.9%	4	90,986	7.2%	7.8%	1	1
8	Hyundai Creta	3,851	3.2%	-50.6%	3	53,399	4.2%	2.5%	4	4
9	Toyota RAV4	3,416	2.9%	-17.6%	14	27,204	2.2%	4.4%	11	8
10	Toyota Camry	3,156	2.6%	7.8%	13	23,127	1.8%	15.9%	15	14
11	Renault Duster	3,063	2.6%	-1.5%	6	29,778	2.4%	40.4%	9	11
12	VW Tiguan	2,318	1.9%	-36.1%	10	25,908	2.1%	9.1%	12	9
13	Kia K5	2,298	1.9%	28.7%	8	24,150	1.9%	1252.2%	13	n/a
14	Lada Largus	2,081	1.7%	-38.7%	15	28,366	2.3%	11.4%	10	7
15	Ford Transit	2,003	1.7%	27.7%	n/a	14,011	1.1%	58.9%		n/a
16	Kia Sportage	1,860	1.6%	-35.5%	12	20,149	1.6%	-1.3%	16	13
17	Kia Sorento	1,843	1.5%	27.4%	19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
18	Nissan X-Trail	1,721	1.4%	-25.3%	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	22
19	Nissan Qashqai	1,614	1.4%	-20.0%	n/a	13,886	1.1%	-14.7%	23	17
20	Chery Tiggo 7	1,611	1.3%	414.7%	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
21	Hyundai Tucson	1,577	1.3%	-44.7%	18	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	18
22	Mitsubishi Outlander	1,532	1.3%	-26.1%	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	25
23	Lada Niva	1,530	1.3%	-67.4%	7	39,631	3.1%	25.6%	6	n/a
24	Renault Arkana	1,491	1.2%	-14.8%	17	13,721	1.1%	17.2%	24	n/a
25	UAZ Patriot	1,484	1.2%	-10.3%	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
26	Toyota Prado	1,466	1.2%	382.2%	21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
27	Mazda CX-5	1,458	1.2%	25.3%	23	13,682	1.1%	-0.9%	25	23
n/a	Skoda Karoq	1,214	1.0%	19.4%	n/a	15,263	1.2%	55.6%	19	n/a
n/a	Renault Kaptur	1,152	1.0%	-47.2%	20	14,247	1.1%	-0.2%	20	21
n/a	Renault Logan	998	0.8%	-74.3%	16	22,526	1.8%	4.0%	14	10
n/a	Renault Sandero	744	0.6%	-75.2%	n/a	17,540	1.4%	-4.8%	18	16
n/a	Lada XRAY	716	0.6%	-59.7%	24	17,901	1.4%	30.2%	17	24
n/a	Skoda Kodiaq	439	0.4%	-61.3%	n/a	13,463	1.1%	7.0%	21	20
n/a	Kia Seltos	430	0.4%	-70.6%	22	13,218	1.0%	69.2%	22	n/a