OREANDA-NEWS According to the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", in the first half of 2017 the volume of the market of new trucks in Russia was 31.5 thousand units, which is more by 44.5% than a year ago. In June, the market grew even more - by 62.8% to 6.6 thousand units.

The leader of the truck market is still the Russian manufacturer KAMAZ, the share of which was 35% of the total in January-June. In quantitative terms, it corresponds to 11.2 thousand units – more by 26.5% than the result of a year ago. The second place is occupied by another domestic brand - GAZ, the indicator of which was 3.5 thousand cars (+ 5%). The top-three is closed by Swedish Volvo (2.1 thousand units), whose the market volume has grown 4.1 times. The Swedish Scania (1.9 thousand units, + 156.3%) and the German Mercedes-Benz (1.9 thousand units, + 309.1%) also fell into the top-five with almost equal figures.

We also note that KAMAZ 43118 is the leader among the models, the sales of which for January-June 2017 were 2.6 thousand units, which is more by 29.4% than the result of a year ago.