OREANDA-NEWS. February 02, 2016. Ulyanovsk plant at the end of 2015 sold in the domestic market 22,102 commercial vehicles, by increasing its market share up to 21.5% and it took the second place by sales of LCV in Russia.

The greatest demand in 2015 was used by such commercial models as "Bus", "Glazed van" and "UAZ Cargo", informed the press service of "Sollers". The leader of growth was "Bus" (UAZ 220695), whose sales in the last year rose by 50%. Also in 2015, sales volumes of cars "UAZ Cargo" increased by 39%. In addition, sales of "glazing van UAZ" (UAZ 3741) increased by 9%, in comparison with 2014.

As previously reported "AUTOSTAT", only in 2015 UAZ sold 48,739 vehicles, which is less by 2% compared with the previous year. As a result, UAZ has risen from 15th to 11th position in the total volume of sales in Russia, as well as it increased significantly its market share of all passenger and commercial vehicles up to 3%. The leader of sales in 2015 was the SUV UAZ "Patriot", the volume of sales of which was 19,950 vehicles (-5.3%). The success of the sales of UAZ "Patriot" is due to the launch in August of 2015 an updated version of the model.