OREANDA-NEWS. According to the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", the total amount of profit from the sale of new passenger cars in Russia for 8 months of 2015 was 1 trillion 135 billion rubles. This is less by 23% than in the same period of the last year. The profit from the sales of vehicles of Russian brands decreased by 12% and it was 95.4 billion rubles, and Russians spent 1.04 trillion rubles (-24%) on foreign cars.

Recall that in January-August of 2015 in the Russian market it was sold 986 thousand passenger cars, which is less 34% than the result of the previous year (1,49 million units). Therewith, the weighted average price of cars rose by 16.5% and now it is 1.151 million rubles. The average price of foreign cars is 1.313 million rubles, and the price of cars of Russian brands - 495 thousand rubles.

According to the director of analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", Sergey Tselikov, the total capacity of the market of cars in Russia in 2015 will be about 1.7-1.8 trillion rubles, which is about a quarter less than the last year (2.34 trillion rubles). According to Mr. Tselikov, this year the structure of the mass market is changing towards smaller and more low-cost cars. At the same time the segment of premium brands looks considerably better than the market.