OREANDA-NEWS. Kia Rio for the second consecutive month becomes the best-selling model in the Russian market, by increasing the gap from competitors. Meanwhile, at the end of February, a new generation of the Hyundai Solaris sedan appeared on sale, which became the Russian bestseller in the last year.

As it was noted in the review of the Russian car market for February, the most sold model in Russia is still KIA Rio with the figure of 7033 cars (+ 0.2%). On the second place there is LADA Granta, whose sales were 5260 cars (-17%). The third result was shown by sedan LADA Vesta - 5101 sold cars, which is 1.7 times more than in the previous year. Leadership among the SUV models is kept by the crossover Hyundai Creta, which was sold in amount of 4,055 units. Sales of the Volkswagen Polo sedan grew by 10.9% to 3,577 cars. The crossover Renault Duster was chosen by 3240 consumers in the last month (-22.8%).

The Hyundai Solaris sedan, the second generation of which went on sale at the end of February, showed the result of 3,081 sold cars (-62.1%). Then two models of Renault follow - Sandero (2277 units, + 0.8%) and Logan (2268 units, + 1.9%). TOP-10 of the most popular models in Russia is closed this time by crossover Toyota RAV4, which was sold in the amount of 2244 units (-26.6%).