The thesis studied the near future of the passenger car market in Finland. The thesis was written with two main parts examined. These parts are the new passenger car market and the used passenger car market. The thesis was written to give a clear picture for a reader how the near future of the passenger car market in Finland will look like, examining affiliated phenomena and trends.

The thesis was done mainly by analyzing data available from internet sources since the topic of the thesis required up-to-date information which would mainly be found on the internet. Additionally, the thesis included an interview of a field expert and a survey to not solely be based on internet sources.

The key finding of the thesis was that both the new and used passenger car market in Finland will face significant changes in the near future. The main conclusions included the small rise in the new car registrations, the stable used passenger car sales numbers, the growth of the J-Segment, the engine fuel types of new passenger cars changing radically, the possible entrance of Chinese passenger cars to the Finnish market and the increase of used passenger car imports in the near future.