366 days of 2020 went to the story, although for a long time they will pop up in our memory. Despite the pandemic, economic difficulties, the closure of borders and the socio-political situation in the country, life continued. People still went to the shops, watched the series, bought and sold cars. In December, we held a contest "Cars of the Year" not only among new cars, but also by using the "Baushka" from the "autobaholki". The result was predictable and in something indicative - Belarusians (well, or at least our readers) believe that the best cars produced in the late 1980s - early 1990s. It was these models that received the greatest number of votes. But not without exceptions. Let's summarize.
Top Models in the opinion of readers Onliner
Two weeks ago, we decided that the best sedan in the Belarusian automotive market is BMW 5-Series E39. So they decided not "selling journalists" or "soulless marketers". So solved an honest vote, in which any user Onliner could take part. It is curious that the most popular sedan on the "autobacholk" is also 5-series - in 2020, 1827 ads on the sale of this model (all generations) were posted on the site.
By the way, the Bavarian "five" is the most demanded not only from sellers, but also by buyers - this model ranks first in the number of requests in the search and leading in the ratio of activity (when the phone has looked or wrote the seller) on the number of views.
What does such a big love say to our compatriots to a business sedan? It is unlikely that many businessmen or wealthy people have become in the country. The average price of BMW on the "autobarer" is below the average price Geely. In other words, second-hand and new Geely choose more wealthy people. And after all, we have no profitable loans for BelDi products on the "autobarewolk".
But no matter how cool, BMW cars of any year of release still cause envy and respect in the eyes of many Belarusians. And this is important for us, even if we are trying to convince everyone in the comments (and first of all ourselves) that it is not. We live in a poor country, and therefore our own "cover" is an important component of social coexistence with other people. Psychology, nothing personal. With all this, of course, you can argue, but it is useless to argue with the numbers. And the numbers suggest that the four leaders in the ratio of buyers' activity on the number of views looks like this: BMW 5-Series, Mercedes E-Class, BMW 7-Series, BMW 3-Series. Well, try to prove after that, that people do not care about the "neighbor's opinion." Although, of course, all this can be explained by excessive love of Belarusians to the "Comfort" and the legendary German quality of the 1990s.
But with crossovers it turned out curious. The most popular on the "autobarer" is BMW X5. And we expected it to be the first place in the vote. But Toyota fans were able to withdraw a favorite brand in the leaders, and during the subsequent stages of the competition, the last sense of the Land Cruiser was chosen the best southener. The question is brewing: why then "Kruzaki" in 2020 sold five times less than x5? Everything is simple - Land Cruiser is too expensive. Find this model is cheaper than 10 thousand dollars is almost impossible.
In other words, if BMW 5-Series can be simultaneously loving and buying and buying, then with Toyota Land Cruiser, the situation is different - it loves very many Belarusians, but they cannot afford. Similar situation with Tesla. California electrocar is in the "Vish Lists" of thousands of people, but still Model S is too expensive, so that the queue is built behind it. By the way, it was the "ECH" readers called the best electrocarrome of the year on the "autobarer", and the Tesla's separation from other EV manufacturers was repeated.
Two other winners in our contest were Volkswagen Passat B3 and Volkswagen Golf II. It is unlikely that someone can argue with the fact that these models are indeed popular in Belarus. Old "Passats" and "Golfs" visited many families, and some of these cars serve faithfully and the truth so far. In the 1990s, the discovery of Western borders in our country was joined by foreign cars. They became a sip of fresh western air for Belarusian car enthusiasts, rolling before that at best on "Zhiguli". In the 2020th Passat was the most popular car among the "autobah bar". According to buyers' activities, the model ranks 9th. Golf in this plan at the 6th place on both indicators. "Passat" choose a sedan in the bodies and wagon about the same probability, well, and the Golf has the most sought-after body is hatchback. Diesel and gasoline Volkswagen are in demand plus-minus equally.
And what new cars bought in 2020?
The statistics of the Belarusian Automobile Association for 2020 will be published in the early 2021, so we can only operate dealer reports for the first half of the year. There is a list of leaders quite predictable: Lada Vesta, Volkswagen Polo Sedan, Geely Atlas, Renault Logan, Kia Rio. Sales Geely Coolray are not bad - Compact SUV bypassed sales of such models such as Kia Sportage, Volkswagen Tiguan and even Renault Kaptur. Not all of the listed machines stayed on the conveyor until the end of the year. For example, Volkswagen Polo Sedan managed to change not only generation, but also the body. The Kia Rio family was restyled.
Let's run on the main news of the dealers. In 2020, the following novelties came to Belarus: Audi Q7 (restyling), Hyundai Accent (restyling), Volkswagen Passat B8 (restyling), Hyundai Creta (Restyling), Volkswagen Jetta (New Generation), Mercedes GLB (new model), Skoda Rapid (New Generation), Mercedes Gle Coupe (New Generation), Hyundai Sonata (New Generation), Volkswagen Polo (New Generation), Chery Tiggo 8 (New Model), Renault Kaptur (Restyling), Kia Rio (Restyling), Geely Tugella (new model), Skoda Octavia (new generation), BMW 4-Series (new generation), BMW 5-Series (restyling), Opel Zafira Life (new model), Volkswagen Tiguan (restyling), etc.
If you consider new modifications, in 2020, about four dozen new products debuted in the country. New autocentrators Opel, Geely and Mitsubishi began work. We began to actively carry electrocars from China (many reviews here). In the automotive plan is not so bad for a year. But let the 2021th be even better!
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