OREANDA-NEWS. According to the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", the total amount of income from the sale of new cars in Russia for 9 months of 2015 was slightly more than 1.3 trillion rubles. Therewith, it is less by 21% than for the same period of the last year. Therewith, the income from the sale of vehicles of Russian brands decreased by 13.5% and it was 108.1 billion rubles, while Russians spent almost 1.2 trillion rubles (-22%) for foreign cars.

Recall that in January-September of 2015 in the Russian market it was sold 1, 116, 400 cars, which is less by 33.5% than in the same period of the last year (1.68 million units).

The average price of cars for the first 9 months of 2015 grew by 18.4% and it was 1.17 million rubles. The average price of cars has increased to 1.33 million rubles, and price of cars of Russian brands to 500 thousand rubles.

According to the director of analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", Sergey Tselikov, the total size of the market of passenger cars in Russia in 2015 will be about 1.75 trillion rubles, which is less by a quarter than the last year's result (2.34 trillion rubles).