10 best-selling cars in October in Kazakhstan named
The 3 best-selling brands include Lada, Toyota, and Hyundai.
The Association of Kazakhstan's Car Business named the best-selling cars in October.
Lada tops a list of 10 best-selling cars, with 1 151 cars of this brand sold in October. Toyota with 1 040 cars sold is second. Hyundai cars assembled un Kostanay is third - 900 units.
Kia and Nissan occupy the 4th place with 435 and 272 cars sold respectively. They are followed by Ravon, Renault, Volkswagen, Lexus, and JAC.
In October, the growth paces slowed down in the market, the car retailing demonstrates a stable figure, that is +5 000 cars a month. The last months of the year are the most active, and traditionally have the largest sales of new cars. Kazakhstan's car dealers have sold 5464 cars and light commercial vehicles, including 350 trucks and buses," they said in a press service of the Association of Kazakhstan's Car Business.
Following ten months of 2018, the market of vehicles has increased by 27%, up to 49 514 cars sold.
Of note, in general, the Almaty region leads among other regions in terms of sales of cars. The region has registered 143 329 vehicles in the period from January to October. In Shymkent and the Turkestan region - 140 731 units. The top-5 regions also include Almaty, Astana and the Karaganda region.
October 2018 can be considered as the most productive month in terms of re-sales of vehicles on the secondary market over three last years. 105 237 vehicles were sold over the month, 93.2% of the total number of sales.
Source: BNews.kz
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