OREANDA-NEWS. According to the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", for 9 months of 2015 in the Russian market it was sold 8,328 pickups. It is twice less (-50.6%) than in the same period of the last year (16860 units). The share of pickups of the common market in the current year decreased significantly and it is 0.7%.

In the Russian market there are represented officially only 10 models of pickups. The most popular of them is the Mitsubishi L 200 - this year it was sold 2,974 units (-32% by January-September of 2014). In the second place – there is Toyota Hilux with the volume of 2147 units (-53%). Third place was taken by the Russian model of UAZ Pickup (UAZ-23632), built on the basis of UAZ Patriot. It is the only model, sales of which remained at the level of the previous year (2057 units). These three models accumulate the lion's share of the Russian market in the segment of pickups (86%).

Sales of other seven models in January-September of 2015 were as follows: Volkswagen Amarok (501 units; -83%), Nissan Pickup (251 units; -65%), Great Wall Wingle Pickup (204 units; -77%) , SsangYong Action Sports (81 units; -75%), Nissan Navara (67 units; -84%), Ford Ranger (33 units; -97%), and Foton Tunland BG2307closes the top-ten of new pickups this year, which was sold in amount of 13 units.