Imported commercial vehicles out-sell their domestically produced rivals

According to car market research company Samar, dealers sold 7,600 new comme rcial vehicles over the first five months of 2002 - around 22% fewer than la st year and only about half the number sold two or three years ago. Most of the sales in the lightest sector were generated by the Citroen C-15 (608), F iat Doblo (215) and VW Caddy (175). The leaders in the middle weight segment were the VW Transporter, Ford Transit and Kia K2700. Recently, the leader in this segment was the domestically produced Lublin II, but in the current ran king the model was placed 10th with only 198 vans sold. The overall sales st ructure of delivery vehicles has changed dramatically in recent years. Where as the majority of sales used to be generated by domestic producers, of a to tal 1,545 units sold in May, 1,316 were imported - 85% of the national marke t. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 7) M.M.