The Ukrainian market has lost 60% of its volume since 2008
- After bursting sales between 2006 and 2008, the Ukrainian car market has fallen back in 2011 and 2012 to 2006 levels. It was in 2008 that the market reached a peak in sales (600,000 units), followed by the financial crisis, the market collapsed, to 162,000 units in 2009 and 163,000 units in 2010, before a small increase to 238,000 units in 2012.
- Compared to 2008, the Ukrainian market has lost 60% of its sales in four years.
- In the first two months of 2013, the market is still down by 15% (compared to the first two months of 2012) and could by the end of the year be around 200,000 units.
- By carmaker, the Hyundai-Kia group is ahead of the Volkswagen and the Renault-Nissan group. The Korean company is rarely in first position in Europe. The local AutoZAZ group is in fourth place, ahead of Toyota and GM.
- Chinese carmakers Geely and Chery are well positioned as they occupied 6.6% of the Ukrainian market in 2012, one of the best scores they achieve in Europe. Let us recall that Russian carmakers occupied less than 3% of the market in 2012.
- The ten best-selling cars in Ukraine in 2012 were the Skoda Octavia (7924 units), the Lada Samara (7378 units), the Hyundai Accent (6988 units), the ZAZ Sens (6837 units), the Renault Logan (5 795 units), the Kia Rio (5624 units), the VW Polo (5373 units), the ZAZ Lanos (5185 units), the Geely CK (4949 units) and the LadaPriora (4267 units).
Data source: File #55 - Registrations in the World by makes
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