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KIA Rio again became the best-selling model in Russia in July, by taking this title from the best seller in June - LADA Granta.

- Significant nominal sales growth: +9.6% to 5,098 million euros, good organic growth +2.2% - Double-digit increase in operating profit*: +11.0% to 909 million euros - Further EBIT margin* improvement: +20 basis points to 17.8% 

Sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Russia grew by 18.6% in July to 129,685 vehicles.

Russian dealers of Volkswagen began the accepting of orders for a special complete set of the full-size crossover Touareg – Wolfsburg Edition.

The analytic agency "AUTOSTAT" conducted a survey of the market of new trucks in Russia and it compiled a rating of the best-sellers of such models. According to the results of the research, in June of 2017 the leader was replaced in this market.

The import of cars to Russia by the results of six months of 2017 fell by 8% up to 112.9 thousand cars.

 KIA Motors Rus Company opened a new dealer center of KIA "Unicum Tagil" in the city of Nizhny Tagil in the Sverdlovsk region.

According to the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", in the first half of 2017 the volume of the market of new trucks in Russia was 31.5 thousand units, which is more by 44.5% than a year ago.