Best Selling Cars Around The Globe: Belarus Over Russian Cars Yet?

by Matt Gasnier

Published: February 14th, 2012

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Over the last few weeks, we have travelled to Germany, Czech Republic, Oman and Israel. Today we are stopping in Belarus, part of the USSR until 1990 and home to just under 10 million inhabitants.

Now if Cold War reminiscence, endless forests and Orthodoxy are not really your thing – well that’s not my business hey but I’ve got you covered: I have prepared 159 additional countries for you to visit in my blog, so don’t be shy and click away!

It took a while for Belarus to get rid of Russian influence but this year the best-selling car in the country is not Russian…

All the details after the jump…

The Belarus car market bucks all European trends this year and grows by 26 percent on 2010 to reach 16,275 registrations, that’s including Light Commercial Vehicles.

A significant event occurred in Belarus in 2011: the best-selling model in the country is not coming from Russia but from France or Romania, depending on which way you look at it: the Renault Logan (born Dacia) is up 6 spots and a massive 98 percent on 2010 to land in pole position with 630 sales and 3.9 percent market share, even though its facelift happened a few years back.

Belarus is third country in the world with Romania and Moldova where the Logan is #1 in 2011.

But the Russians are not far behind: in second position we find 2010′s best-seller, the GAZ Gazelle down a steep 62 percent to 475 units and 2.9 percent share…

…followed by the Lada Priora up 20 percent to 426 sales and 2.6 percent share.

Renault lodges another fantastic performance in 4th place: the Sandero is up 38 ranks and 405 percent year-on-year to reach 409 units sold and 2.5 percent, again very impressive given the Sandero has been around for a couple of years now.

A second Lada climbs in the Top 5: the 34 year-old 4×4 (aka Niva) with 382 sales, up 22 percent on 2010, an outstanding feat given its age.

Other great performers in the Top 10 include the VW Polo sedan landing directly at the Ford Focus up 311 percent to #9 and the Mitsubishi Outlander up 78 percent to

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Lorenzo on Feb 14, 2012

Once again, a country where smaller fuel efficient cars are popular, and Fiat is nowhere on the list. I would expect Fiat to be pushing hard to expand in such markets. Is Sergio spending too much time with Chrysler, or was it his predecessors who failed to expand into these markets?

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AGD on Feb 15, 2012

"A second Lada climbs in the Top 5: the 34 year-old 4×4 (aka Niva) with 382 sales, up 22 percent on 2010, an outstanding feat given its age." You should check also when Lada 2107 & Samara started being manufactured. I thought 2105/7 was discontinued several years ago.

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- Inside Looking Out on Feb 20, 2012
  
  2105/7 means the year when they will be discontinued :) They will keep them current another 100 years. Panther is a modern platform in comparison.
  
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