I believe only 2008 had more cars sold than this year in Russia. With a 39% increase, it was a buoyant year. This was the lowest market share for home brand car Lada apart from 2008. Among the ten best selling models, nine were locally produced so there is a strong car manufacturing industry here. Imported cars are quite highly taxed.
1 Lada 578,400 21.8%
2 Chevolet 173,500 6.5% 3 Hyundai 163,400 6.2%
4 Renault 154,700 5.8%
5 Kia 152,900 5.8%
6 Nissan 138,800 5.2%
7 VW 130,300 4.9%
8 Toyota 119,500 4.5%
9 Ford 118,000 4.4%
10 Daewoo 92,800 3.5%
11 GAZ 89,800 3.4%
12 Mitsubis 74,200 2.8%
13 Skoda 74,100 2.8%
14 Opel 67,600 2.5%
15 UAZ 57,100 2.2%
16 Peugeot 44,300 1.7%
17 Mazda 39,700 1.5%
18 Suzuki 35,500 1.3% 19 Mercedes 31,800 1.2%
20 Fiat 28,300 1.1%
21 BMW 28,200 1.1%
22 Citroen 27,600 1.0%
23 Audi 23,250 0.9%
24 Ssangy 22,700 0.9%
25 Chance 20,000 0.8%
26 Volvo 19,200 0.7%
27 Honda 19,100 0.7%
28 Lifan 17,900 0.7%
29 Lexus 13,700 0.5%
30 Land Rov 13,200 0.5%
31 Subaru 12,400 0.5%
32 Vortex 12,100 0.5%
33 Bogdan 8,700 0.3%
34 Chery 7,300 0.3%
35 Infiniti 7,000 0.3% 36 Great Wall 6,800 0.3%
37 Geely 6,100 0.2%
38 IZH 5,200 0.2%
39 Haima 3,100 0.1%
40 Chrysler 2,300 0.1%
41 Cadilac 2,200 0.1%
42 Porsche 2,200 0.1%
43 BYD 2,000 0.1%
44 MINI 2,000 0.1%
45 Tagaz 1,800 0.1%
46 Jaguar 1,200 0.0%
47 Seat 1,100 0.0%
Total 2,653,500
Big Gains: Hyundai (+88%), Nissan (+74%), VW (+96%) and Lifan (+133%). Market Share Losses: Lada (+12%), GAZ (+17%), UAZ (+16%), Chance (+14%), Honda (+5%) and Chery (-18%).
Did you know? Over 80% of Renault cars sold in Russia are actually Dacia models sold with a Renault logo.
I wonder: Can the car sales boom last in Russia?
Source: AEB

Car Sales Russia: 2011

Lada is still king of the castle, but by a reduced margin. In 2001, Lada had over 75% of the market so that was never going to be sustainable as new brands came along. I think it has done remarkably well to be selling what it is now. VW has been a big mover here over recent times, while Fiat is moving quickly in the opposite direction. The market grew 11% but toward the end of the year, things were slowing up. It's a big market with some hefty numbers.
The first three columns show 2010 to 2012 ranking, the second column in from the right is increase or decrease, and the extreme right shows market share for the major brands.

1	1	1		Lada	537,625	-7%	18.3%
2	2	2		Chevolet	205,042	18%	7.0%
4	4	3		Renault	189,852	23%	6.5%
3	5	4		Kia	187,330	23%	6.4%
11	7	5		VW	180,863	39%	6.2%
6	3	6		Hyundai	174,286	7%	5.9%
7	6	7		Nissan	153,747	11%	5.2%
8	8	8		Toyota	153,047	28%	5.2%
5	9	9		Ford	130,809	11%	4.5%
13	13	10		Skoda	99,062	34%	3.4%
9	11	11		GAZ	90,247	1%	3.1%
10	10	12		Daewoo	88,232	-5%	3.0%
15	14	13		Opel	81,242	20%	2.8%
14	12	14		Mitsubishi	74,294	0%	2.5%
12	15	15		UAZ	60,653	6%	2.1%
18	17	16		Mazda	44,443	12%	1.5%
16	16	17		Peugeot	44,420	0%	1.5%
20	19	18		Mercedes	41,410	30%	1.4%
21	21	19		BMW	37,515	33%	1.3%
22	23	20		Audi	33,512	44%	1.1%
25	22	21		Citroen	32,859	19%	1.1%
17	18	22		Suzuki	32,684	-8%	1.1%
26	24	23		Ssangyong	31,198	37%	1.1%
23	27	24		Honda	21,512	13%	0.7%
33	28	25		Lifan	20,544	15%	0.7%
28	26	26		Volvo	20,364	6%	0.7%
30	30	27		Land Rover	19,043	44%	0.6%
31	34	28		Chery	19,004	161%	0.6%
37	37	29		Geely	17,566	190%	0.6%
27	29	30		Lexus	15,653	14%	0.5%
36	36	31		Great Wall	14,373	112%	0.5%
32	31	32		Subaru	14,296	16%	0.5%
24	25	33		ZAZ	9,964	-50%
35	35	34		Infiniti	9,209	31%
19	20	35		Fiat	8,623	-69%
34	33	36		Bogdan	7,512	-13%
29	32	37		Vortex	5,953	-51%
43	40	38		Chrysler	5,104	119%
38	42	39		Porsche	3,613	64%
49	43	40		BYD	2,630	31%
41	44	41		MINI	2,629	31%
42	47	42		Seat	2,500	122%
46	38	43		IZH	2,465	-52%
39	41	44		Cadilac	2,024	-9%
-	-	45		BAW	1,845
43	46	46		Jaguar	1,506	27%
29	45	47		Tagaz	1,331	-28%
				Others	1,476
				Total	2,935,111	11%

Data source: Thanks to AEB

Car Sales Russia: 2012

Lada grabs the top three spots for 2012, with the Priora (pictured top) leading the way. Renault does well selling Dacias under its own brand. Seeing as Renault has a share of Lada and Nissan, combined they have a sizable share of the market. There are still Daewoos selling here but it must be on price mainly. Hyundai do well with the Solaris (pictured bottom).

1	Lada Priora	125,951	-9%
2	Lada Granta	121,151	New
3	Lada Kalina	119,890	-16%
4	Hyundai Solaris	110,776	14%
5	Ford Focus	92,219	12%
6	Kia Rio	84,730	70%
7	VW Polo	69,385	33%
8	Lada Samara	67,971	-45%
9	Chev Cruze	63,181	68%
10	Chev Niva	59,331	9%
11	Renault Logan	58,734	-28%
12	Daewoo Nexia	55,034	1%
13	Lada 4x4	54,656	-10%
14	Opel Astra	52,331	9%
15	Skoda Octavia	52,036	27%
16	Renault Sandero	48,632	6%
17	Renault Duster	47,344	New
18	Nissan Qashqai	36,793	4%
19	Chev Lacetti	34,793	-17%
20	Toyota Camry	34,619	61%
21	Toyota Corolla	33,262	23%
22	Daewoo Matiz	33,198	-13%
23	Kia Sportage	32,716	37%
24	Lada 2100	32,444	-71%
25	VW Tiguan	31,272	70%

Data source:
Thanks to AEB

Car Sales Russia By Model: 2012

Russia Sales By Brand : 2013