ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- Passenger car production in Russia increased by more than 27 percent in the first nine months of 2026, reaching nearly 660,000 vehicles, Russian Industry and Trade Minister Anton Alikhanov said Friday.
"According to manufacturers, over 764,000 vehicles across all segments rolled off our assembly lines in the first nine months, which is 22.4 percent higher than in the same period last year. Of those, nearly 660,000 were passenger cars, with growth in this segment exceeding 27 percent," he was quoted as saying by TASS news agency on the sidelines of the Russian Industrialist forum exhibition.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade said that nearly 1.08 million new vehicles were sold in Russia from January to September, up 6.2 percent from the same period in 2025.
