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OREANDA-NEWS. Experts of the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT" conducted a study of the market structure of new and used cars in the Far East (DFO) and they made the top-10 of the most popular models.

Surprisingly, the most popular new passenger car among the inhabitants of the Far East was UAZ "Patriot". For 8 months of 2015 in the Far Eastern traffic it was appeared 646 new "Patriot" vehicles. In the second place there is Toyota RAV4 - 543 units and the third place is occupied by AvtoVAZ’s "Niva” (LADA 4x4) - 530 units. And AvtoVAZ’s SUV is popular both in the three-door (276 units) and the five-door (254 units) variants.

The fourth and the fifth places are occupied by two models of Toyota - Land Cruiser Prado (490 units) and Land Cruiser 200 (435 units). The top-10 of new passenger cars in the Far East also includes Nissan X-Trail, Mitsubishi Outlander, Hyundai Solaris, Toyota Camry and Nissan Terrano. It should be noted that 8 of the 10 most popular cars in the Far East are SUVs and crossovers (segment SUV). The whole market of new passenger cars in the Far Eastern Federal District for 8 months of 2015 was only 9.5 thousand vehicles, or about 1% of Russian car market.

But the used car market in Far East is much more. For 8 months of 2015 the new owners have found more than 176 thousand cars. And the leaders are only Japanese models. In the first TOP-10 there are eight “Toyota” models - Corolla, Mark, Land Cruiser, Prado, Vitz, Crown, Corona, Prius, and only two models of other Japanese brands - Honda Fit and Mitsubishi Pajero.