What are the most popular passenger cars in the domestic market? Top 10 brands and models of October 2025
In the domestic market, during October 2025, the service centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs registered 77.8 thousand contracts for the purchase and sale of used cars. This is 1.9% more than in September 2025, but 8.7% less than the contracts concluded last year in October 2024.
The domestic market volumes in the diagram are shown in the upper (blue) part of the columns, and in the lower (orange) part — the volumes of imports of used cars, which we will soon examine in detail in a separate publication.
The leader in the number of resold cars, as before, remains Volkswagen: over 9.5 thousand transactions only among domestic buyers. This is the very "gold standard" of the Ukrainian market, and the reasons have long been known: ease of repair, available spare parts, good liquidity.
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In second place is VAZ/Lada, which seems to be nowhere to be found, even in 2025. Almost 4.6 thousand disposals per month are a sign that deep budget-friendlyness still remains a strong argument. Next are Renault, Skoda, BMW and Toyota — each of these brands has scored more than 4 thousand resales. They form the middle class of the market, where practicality, profitability of ownership and customer trust intersect. In the second half of the top ten we see Audi, Ford, Mercedes-Benz and Nissan — brands that are trusted and which are sold in large quantities, although by several hundred transactions less than the leaders.
A similar picture is seen among the models. The leadership here is held by the Volkswagen Passat — 2,735 Ukrainians chose this car again last month. Next is the Daewoo Lanos, the same “barometer of poverty and reliability,” which with its 2,549 transactions shows that cheap cars continue to move well among owners. Skoda Octavia and Volkswagen Golf — two more representatives of the confident middle class — sold by the thousands: 2,375 and 2,196 resales, respectively. The remaining participants in the Top 10 — Renault Megane, Ford Focus, two BMW series, Opel Astra and Audi A6 — all in the range from 900 to 1,300 transactions.
As always, we will finish by counting the premium segment cars. So, last month, the following number of new owners for not-quite-new cars of this group were found on the domestic market: 2 Ferraris, 3 Rolls-Royces, 10 Bentleys, and 21 Maseratis.
The interesting thing of the month is the oldest car that changed hands in October: a GAZ 20A from 1951. According to the documents, it is a green hatchback with a 2.1-liter gasoline engine. Technically, it is the first generation of the well-known Pobeda, a car that at one time made a real step forward for mass production. At 74 years old, this car looks not just like a messenger from another era, but also demonstrates a classic approach to engineering: a simple engine, solid metal, a minimum of electronics. It has survived fashions, urban transformations, dozens of generations of new models and even became the hero of the book "I, Pobeda and Berlin" by Andrey Kuzmenko.
It is possible that the new owner already sees it not as a means of transportation, but as a part of his own history, which can be placed in the garage next to a retro poster and an old radio. Such cars are not bought every day — they are bought "to prevent the legend from dying." And here the secondary market works as a kind of museum on wheels: it finds new life for those who have long ceased to be just a car.
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