OREANDA-NEWS. In 2014, the import of cars in Russia decreased by 23.8%. For the first two months (January + February) this year, it fell by another 46.4% (compared to the same period of the last year). According to the study of analysts of AA "AUTOSTAT" that was held in March of 2015, the import of buses, light commercial vehicles and trucks have become even less (in January-February the decline in these three segments as a whole was 67%).

It is worth noting that the top-10 of passenger models – leaders by imports in the first two months of this year was divided between the four brands of cars: four models of Toyota, three models of Hyundai, two - Mitsubishi and one - Lexus. So, the top ten looks as follows: Hyundai IX 35 (January-February 2015, in the country, it was imported 4.3 thousand units), Toyota RAV4 (4,1 thous. units), Toyota Corolla (2,9 thous. units) , Mitsubishi ASX (2,8 thous. units), Hyundai Santa Fe (1,7 thous. units), Lexus NX (1,5 thous. units), Toyota Highlander (1,3 thous. units) Toyota Land Cruiser (1,2 thous. units), Hyundai Elantra (0,9 thous. units) and Mitsubishi L200 (0,9 thous. units).