Since the lion’s share of car sales are in major cities, it would make sense to expect a higher demand for small cars. After all, they fit organically into the concept of urban mobility. At least, these “crumbs” have almost no parking problems. And operating costs are quite in line with their size. However, the AvtoVzglyad portal was surprised to learn that Russians have a strong aversion to small cars in practice. It seems that for city dwellers, size still matters. And the less, the worse.

How else to explain that the most unpopular among our citizens were precisely the A-class city cars: compact city cars accounted for only 0.2% of total sales during 11 months of 2022. For some mysterious reason, the negative attitude spread by size, the premium F and S class cars are only 0.6% of total demand. But almost 90% of the market consists of sales in the SUV, B and B+ categories. Naturally, SUVs traditionally take the top spot at 56.1%, according to the Avtostat agency.

Since the lion’s share of car sales are in major cities, it would make sense to expect a higher demand for small class cars. After all, they fit organically into the concept of urban mobility. At least, these “crumbs” have almost no parking problems. And operating costs are quite in line with their size. However, the AvtoVzglyad portal was surprised to learn that Russians have a strong aversion to small cars in practice. It seems that for city dwellers, size still matters. And the less, the worse.

How else to explain that the most unpopular among our citizens were precisely the A-class city cars: compact city cars accounted for only 0.2% of total sales during 11 months of 2022. For some mysterious reason, the negative attitude has by size also spreads to premium F- and S-class cars: only 0.6% of total demand. But almost 90% of the market consists of sales in the SUV, B and B+ categories. Naturally, SUVs traditionally take the top spot at 56.1%, according to the Avtostat agency.