OREANDA-NEWS. According to the association "Ukrautoprom" 207,732 vehicles were sold and registered in the primary car market of Ukraine during seven months of 2013, which is 6% more than last year. In this case, the number of cars first registrations decreased by 5%, and buses by 13%. Thus, the overall market growth has been formed by increased demand for commercial vehicles, which were sold by 33% more than in 2012.

 The share of new vehicles in total sales in the primary market by types of vehicles is: for passenger cars new technique is 96%, for commercial vehicles - only 11%, and 56% for buses.

 The July sales result, despite the skepticism of many experts, has shown a positive trend in the current year statistics - plus 14% for the June registrations. The only exception was the bus segment, where sales were down by 5%, or 20 units, which obviously could not affect the overall result.

 July's passenger car market, compared to previous month, increased by 20% and reached 18,851 units. Commercial vehicles first registration have added almost 7% to the June result and totaled 13,014 units. Sales of 408 buses, as reported above, showed a 5 percent fall in demand for this type of transport.

 The overall vehicle sales in the primary market in July exceeded the rate in July 2012 to 1.6 percent, which can be written as the positive trend of the month. However, this advantage was formed exclusively by commercial segment. Commercial vehicles sales in July relative to last year same period increased by 36 percent. The volume of cars and buses sales fell by 13 and 10 percent, respectively.

 The share of new vehicles in July registrations was 61%. For car that figure slightly exceeded 95%, for CV - 12%, and for buses - 59%.

 Finally, the Top-10 of new passenger cars July sales by brand is as follows:

 The domestic brand ZAZ confidently continues to take first place. 1,652 car owners (+9% to the previous month) voted with their wallets for the Zaporizhia Automobile Building Plant production.

 The Korean brand Hyundai is keeping the second place with 1,357 cars (+3% to June).

 Increasing sales by 96% in comparison with the previous month, the Chinese brand Geely (assembled in Ukraine for 3 last months) moved to the third place, relegating to step down TOYOTA. Geely's July result is 1,347 cars. Fourth place, despite a 14% increase in sales compared to June, belongs to TOYOTA.

 SKODA rose on the fifth place with 1,094 cars sales (+21% to June).

 Sixth place went to the Korean brand KIA – 1,017 units (+11% to prev.month).

 Volkswagen with 20 % increase and 1,001 first registrations of new passenger cars took seventh place.

 French brand Renault with 997 of first registrations (+5% to June) took eighth place of the July rankings.

 Ninth place went to Ford - 970 cars (+39% to June).

 Nissan closes the July Top-10. 868 cars of this Japanese brand were sold - 28% growth to the previous month.