Sales of foreign-branded cars in Russia rose 49% year on year to 79,235 cars in April, the Association of European Business said on Friday.

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The best selling brands in Russia in the period were Chevrolet, including cars produced by US-Russian auto manufacturing joint venture GM-AvtoVAZ, with 8,995 cars sold, or 55% up, Toyota with 8,462, up 30%, and Ford, with 8,203, up 90%, AEB said.


In 2005, car output in Russia fell to 1.068m vehicles from 1.110m vehicles in 2004, while truck output rose to 206,779 units from 202,356 units.

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