In 2015, more cars sold, but still moderate

Posted on 01-01-2016 12:30 by Dennis – 38 Comments”

Last month did the Dutch car dealers excellent business. There were 69.156 new cars sold, and many copies were never about the “counter” in a month of December. Good for a higher end position than last year.

By the end of 2014 was the counter on 387.572 new cars and 2015 came out on 449.347 copies, an increase of 15.9 percent. This is evident from an initial analysis of independent kennisbureau AUMACON.

The car sales in our country since June a continuous increase. Main reason for this are the per today increased bijtellingspercentages. For most of the new plug-in is the tax liability from this year’s 15 percent (7 percent), for other cars this year it be 21 – or 25-percent bijtellingstarief apply. Only the tax for fully electric cars remains unchanged at 4 percent.

More cars but still moderate
With this result of almost 450 thousand nieuwverkopen table 2015, however, a row of moderate autojaren. Since 1970, there were only 12 years fewer cars sold. The year 2014 harnessed thereto, with an annual total of just 387.572 pieces – the crown: the absolute lowest point in 45 years of car sales.

Forecast to 2016
AUMACON-director, Clem Dickmann “In the knowledge that the figure for 2015 not very far bovenligt and, moreover, is established by hefty tax incentives hold the auto industry to the breath in for the new year. In that new year will be a lot of unsold – but by the end of 2015, however, all gekentekende cars to the man to be brought. So were there in december alone, the Peugeot 308 preferably 12.052 pieces registered. Partly due to that by stockpiling, we expect that the car sales in 2016 up to 385 thousand new registrations will reach.”

Volkswagen best-selling brand, Peugeot 308 most popular model
Volkswagen was for the eleventh time in a row, the best-selling brand in our country. Between 1969 and 2004 Opel for 36 years continuously the biggest brand in the Netherlands.

Top-5 car sales 2015 brand

MerkAantalMarktaandeel

Volkswagen56.32312,5%

Peugeot49.22111,0%

Renault35.2097,8%

Opel25.4475,7%

Ford25.2195,6%

Favorite model was the last year the Peugeot 308. In 2014 fell this honor still to turn to the Volkswagen Golf. In the preceding years were the Volkswagen Polo (2010 and 2011), the Renault Mégane (2012) and the Volkswagen Up! (2013) are the most popular.

Top-5 car sales 2015 per model

MerkModelMarktaandeel

Peugeot 30828.9506,4%

Volkswagen Golf20.3444,5%

Renault Clio17.0103,8%

Volkswagen Polo12.1032,7%

Volvo V4011.4082,5%

Fotocredit: supercarspotterrr