OREANDA-NEWS. Analytic agency "AUTOSTAT" conducted a study of the market for new passenger cars by the results of the first quarter of 2016 and it made a rating of the most popular diesel models in Russia.

According to the study, the best-selling passenger car, equipped with a diesel engine, is SUV Toyota Land Cruiser Prado in our country, the market volume of which in January - March of this year was 1831 units, which is less by 14.6% compared to the previous year. In the second place there is popular crossover in Russia - Renault Duster, which was sold in amount of 873 cars, by showing an increase of 2.7 times. BMW X5 is behind, whose figure was 824 units (-4.1%), which allowed the brand to occupy the third position in the ranking.

Hyundai Santa Fe (798 units) And Mitsubishi Pajero Sport (781 units) are completing the top five of leaders but if the first model shows a small negative market trend (-0.2%), then the second one shows an increase of 10.5%. The top-10 of the Russian market of new diesel passenger cars in the first quarter of 2016 included also: Mercedes-Benz GL-Class (703 units; -0,4%), Audi Q7 (697 units; + 151.6%), Toyota RAV4 (565 units; + 17,7%), Mitsubishi L200 (510 units; -59%), and the Toyota Hilux (476 units; -32.7%).