The most popular SUVs in Russia are named

The Avtostat research agency called the most popular SUVs of Russia in 2011. Last year, 2.6 million new cars and light commercial cars was sold in Russia. About a quarter of the cars sold were SUV cars.

SUVs in our country are becoming more and more popular. Their share in the total volume of new cars sold in the country according to the results of last year amounted to 26.1%. A year earlier, this indicator was 23.5%. And two years ago - 22.5%, they resemble "Auto .
The most popular SUV last year was the domestic Lada 4x4. In the country, 60738 pieces of this model were implemented. In second place - Chevrolet Niva with a result of 54425 cars sold. The Japanese Nissan Qashqai, the Japanese third place went to the third place, which ultimately became the most popular foreign car in the presented rating - 35231 an implemented car. The fourth place with a wide margin is Toyota Rav4 (27206). Closes the five leaders Kia Sportage (23880 cars sold).

In addition to the listed models in the ten most popular SUVs of Russia, the Nissan X-Trail, Mitsubishi Outlander XL, Mitsubishi ASX, Volksvagen Tiguan were included.

“In the winter months, sales of SUVs increase to 28-30% of the total, and in the summer they are reduced to about 20%. For comparison in Europe, cars of this class account for about 10% of the market,” the director of the analytical agency Sergei Tselikov commented on the received data.