OREANDA-NEWS. As the Ministry of Industry and Trade informed the agency "AUTOSTAT", about 235,000 vehicles of all types are sold in the current year due to the effect of measures of state support - parc renewal program (it works from January 1st), a program of preferential car loan (it is available from April 1st), and the program of preferential lease (it works since May 15th).

At the same time the market volume was 820.7 thousand vehicles of all types from January to June, i.e. the acquisition of more than 28% of the cars for the I half of year was subsidized by the state.

Analysis of the best-selling cars by the program shows that buyers prefer cars that are produced in Russia. Hyundai cars own a 32% share of sales under the program of preferential car loan, and then AvtoVAZ (21%), Renault (14%), Volkswagen (11%) and Nissan (10%) follow. According to one of the leading participants of the program of preferential car loan, "Setelem Bank" (it issued more than 22.5 thousand car loans), five of the most popular models are: KIA RIO, HYUNDAI SOLARIS, LADA GRANTA, KIA CEE'D and LADA LARGUS.

Under the program of parc renewal the leader is still AvtoVAZ. Since January 1st, the Russian automaker has sold more than 60 thousand cars. Second place goes to GAZ Group, which sold more than 17 thousand of its models, which is followed by Volkswagen, Renault, Nissan, Hyundai, UAZ and Kia.