Demand for second-hand foreign cars imported to Ukraine soars 30% in April - Ukravtoprom

MOSCOW. May 7 (Interfax) - Ukrainian car fleet was replenished with 19,800 second-hand passenger cars imported from abroad in April, which is up 30% year-on-year, but 6% less than in March this year, Ukrainian media reported, citing the Ukravtoprom association as saying on social media.

As reported, there were 5,700 new passenger cars registered in April, according to the association, up 11% year-on-year, that is, the demand for imported second-hand cars exceeded the demand for new ones by 3.5 times.

Gasoline cars continued to constitute the largest share in the segment of second-hand foreign cars last month (48%), followed by diesel vehicles (24%), electric cars (17%), compressed gas cars (6%), and hybrids (5%).

Volkswagen Golf remains the top imported second-hand model with 1,106 registrations.

The top 10 most popular models also include Renault Megane (916), Skoda Octavia (732), Volkswagen Passat (586), Volkswagen Tiguan (511), Nissan Leaf (497), Nissan Rogue (482), Audi Q5 (466), Tesla Model 3 (414), and Audi A4 (373).

The average age of used cars that switched to Ukrainian license plates in March, as well as in February, is 9.3 years.

In total, nearly 75,400 used cars underwent the first registration in Ukraine in January-April, which is up 38% year-on-year.

As reported, for the whole of last year, registrations of second-hand cars imported from abroad dropped 45% year-on-year to 214,400.