“AvtoVAZ” continues to lose ground amid the development of assembly plants for Chinese brands and parallel imports. In January, it sold 19,600 Ladas, which is 29% less than a year ago and 38% less compared to December, according to the analytical agency “AUTOSTAT”. This is much worse than the market: a total of 80,600 new passenger cars were sold in Russia in a month, which is 10% less than in the disastrous, in the words of the executive director of “AUTOSTAT”, Sergey Udalov, January 2025.
As a result, the share of Lada in new car sales amounted to 24.4%, once again falling below the 25% mark, the retention of which the president of “AvtoVAZ”, Maxim Sokolov, called an achievement of 2025 (The Moscow Times).
