Sales of Chinese premium segment cars have significantly fallen in Russia against the backdrop of growing European brands, according to data from the Avtostat agency.
Since the beginning of the year, Russians have bought only 776 Tank 700 cars, which are called Gelendwagen from China.
Thus, from January to July, overall sales of new cars collapsed by 23.9% compared to the same period in 2024. However, sales of premium Chinese cars decreased much more.
For example, the decrease for the Lixiang brand was 55.3%, sales of Exeed cars decreased by 57.5%, and luxury electric vehicles Zeekr sold 64.7% less from January to July inclusive than a year earlier.
The situation is slightly better for other Chinese premium brands. In particular, Voyah lost 43.2%, while Tank saw a decrease of 38.6%.
Against this background, sales of premium cars of European brands increased: Rolls-Royce by 64.9%, Bentley by 18.6%, Mercedes-Benz by 2.1%, Ferrari by 21.7%,
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