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How many foreign cars are registered as taxi and what are the prospects for their operation

According to the marketing agency NAPI, as of July 1, 2025, the taxi population in Russia numbers 791.4 thousand cars that have a valid permission. 335.9 thousand cars of them are new: of 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 years of manufacture.

The average period of car ownership as taxi in 2023 was 43 months, last year - 42 months, in the first half of the current year - 39 months.

LADA is the most in-demand brand in the taxi population: it accounts for 15% of the new car population. Thus, there are 51.3 thousand LADA cars of 2022 - 2025 years of manufacture used as taxi. CHERY is on the second place by popularity: the brand owns 8% of the new taxi population (28.4 thousand cars). HAVAL occupied the third place, with 22.3 thousand cars of this brand registered in taxi companies, which is 7% of the population. TOP-10 also includes GEELY, JAC, MOSKVICH, BELGEE, OMODA, BAIC, and CHANGAN cars. The TOP-10 leaders account for slightly less than half of the fresh taxi population in Russia (44%).
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