Ford increased Russian sales of its Ford Focus by 415% to 9,412 cars in the first nine months of this year, the company said on Monday, according to Reuters.
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Sales of all models available in Russia rose 218% to 12,841 during the same period, the report added.
“The Ford Focus is the best selling non-Russian model in the market,” Henrik Nenzen, managing director of Ford Russsia, told Reuters.
The news agency said Ford started to make the Focus family saloon outside Russia’s second city, St Petersburg, in July 2002 and plans to make between 12,000-15,000 cars this year.
Reuters noted that Nenzen has said Ford expects to sell 18,000 cars in Russia in total this year, which would give it 1% of the market, and is aiming for 10% by 2010.
The number of new and used cars sold in Russia last year was 1.7 million — a fraction of the combined total of 6-7 million in Germany and Britain, Reuters said, noting that Russia’s AvtoVAZ has the biggest share of the new car market in Russia, with over 50%.
