Friday, 30, January, 2026

In 2025, automobile factories in Uzbekistan manufactured 457,900 passenger cars, a 6.7% increase from 2024 (429,100), the National Statistics Committee said in a report.

Meanwhile, manufacturing of several mass-market models by UzAuto Motors decreased in 2025:

  • Cobalt – from 164,900 to 161,200 (-2.3%);
  • Damas – from 101,900 to 93,700 (-8.1%);
  • Onix – from 41,700 to 33,100 (-20.5%).

Manufacturing of Gentra model will be discontinued in 2025 (12,800 units were manufactured in 2024).

While, several models saw growth:

  • Tracker – from 45,900 to 50,400 (+9.7%);
  • KIA – from 22,100 to 26,300 (+19.3%);
  • Chery – from 7,072 to 9,354 (+32%);
  • Haval – from 3,315 to 9,344 (an increase of almost threefold).

KIA, Chery, and Haval are manufactured by ADM Jizzakh in the Jizzakh province.

BYD (BYD Uzbekistan Factory in Jizzakh province) demonstrated the most significant growth – manufacturing increased from 4,004 to 20,200 vehicles, a more than fivefold increase.

In 2025, the Chinese brand Tank 500 (part of Great Wall Motors) will also manufacture 50 vehicles, whereas the year before, they were not manufactured at all. LADA manufacturing, on the other hand, is nonexistent (6 units in 2024).

Manufacturing of special vehicles, including the Labo and Wuling n111, more than doubled—from 25,500 to 54,300 units. In 2025, 37,400 Labo vehicles were sold.

Manufacturing of these Chevrolet models (excluding the Labo) decreased by a combined 7.9%.

Amid the decline in manufacturing and sales, Chevrolet's market share fell from 87.9% to 83.2%.

Total imports of all vehicles (including parts and nearly finished vehicles) topped $3.7 billion (up 10.4%). Passenger cars imports were valued at $1.2 billion (down 8.1%), while parts and CBU vehicles (completely assembled vehicles imported abroad, imported as a whole) topped $1.7 billion (up 34.4%).

Last year, 79,822 passenger cars were imported to Uzbekistan, a 7.1% increase compared to the 2024 target (74,505). However, the dollar value of imports decreased by 8%, from $1.28 billion to $1.17 billion.

Conventional engine vehicle imports decreased by 40%, while electric vehicle imports increased by 2.4 times. As a result, the share of electric vehicles in imports increased from 32% to 71%, while the share of internal combustion engine vehicles decreased from 44% to 25%.

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