VTB gave a forecast for passenger car sales next year

According to VTB forecasts, more than 7 million cars will be sold on the Russian automobile market in 2025, which is comparable to the result of the current year. Almost every fifth of them will exit the primary market.

Over the past two years, the Russian car market has been actively recovering, and its structure has almost returned to the values ​​​​at the beginning of 2022. But already in 2025 this segment of the economy will again be under pressure.

In absolute figures, sales of new cars next year, according to VTB, will amount to about 1.3 million units. This will be approximately 10% lower than the result in 2024, but a quarter higher than in 2023, and almost double than in 2022. The peak of sales remains 2021, when Russian residents bought about 1.7 million passenger cars from dealers.

At the same time, the structure of the car lending market will remain the same. According to VTB forecasts, in…