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Kazakhstan: New cars sales fall in Kazakhstan

2016/07/24

The official car dealers operating in Kazakhstan sold 21,964 new cars in the initial half of 2016 compared to 53,251 cars in the same period of 2015, Kazakhstan’s Auto Business Association reported.

Meanwhile, in June 2016 news car sales increased by 9 % compared to May 2016 to 3,880 cars.

Request for the new cars produced in Kazakhstan has been increasing since the beginning of 2016.

The share of Kazakh cars in the new cars sales increased from 14 % in January 2016 to 27 % in June 2016. Official dealers sold 4,733 Kazakhstani cars in January - June 2016.

The best seller brand was Russian LADA.

Before, the Kazakh Statistics Committee reported that car manufacturing has dropped by 62.2 % in Kazakhstan in H1 2016, as compared to the same period in 2015, and stood at 2,980 cars.

This is while minibus production decreased by 23.7 % and stood at 71 minibuses during the period. The truck manufacturing in Kazakhstan increased by 16.6 % and totaled 718 trucks.

Three large car plants - AZIA AVTO, SaryarkaAvtoProm and Agromashholding - operate in Kazakhstan. These plants manufacture Kia, Chevrolet, Skoda, Hyundai, SsangYong, Peugeot and cars of other brands.

Kazakhstan produced 12,450 cars and 1,660 trucks in 2015.

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