The 10 best selling cars in the Netherlands and Belgium

Posted on 15-10-2014 at 13:54 by sir_smokalot – 59 Comments”

The Dutch and Belgians are neighbors who largely speak the same language and many interfaces have. But how unanimous we are when it comes to car preference?

To find out, we gathered data from industry associations Bovag and Febiac, and worked it further.

With 11.2 million souls are our southern neighbours significantly less numerous than we (16.7 million inhabitants). ‘No doubt, something that we see reflected in the car sales’, you might say. Not so. Belgium beats Netherlands this year on his slippers as the nieuwverkopen about, and that is certainly not the first time.

In the first 3 quarters of 2014 (January-september) were in the Netherlands 284.486 car’s number plate, in Belgium, they’re here with 388.095 pieces more than a third match. These are the 10 best sellers of the two countries:

RangNederland Belgium

1VW Golf
11.770
VW Golf
11.346

2Renault Clio
10.893
Renault Clio
7.845

3Skoda Octavia
8.640
Renault Mégane
7.824

4VW Up!
8.021
Audi A3
6.933

5Peugeot 308
7.052
VW Polo
6.617

6Mitsubishi Outlander
7.002
BMW 3 Series
6.506

7Kia Picanto
6.964
Renault Scénic
5.995

8Ford Fiesta
6.765
Hyundai ix35
5.817

9VW Polo
6.207
Nissan Qashqai
5.798

10Peugeot 208
6.098
Peugeot 208
5.479

Cumulatief79.412
70.160

TOTAAL284.486388.095

As you can see the numbers 1,2, and 10 are identical in the lists. In addition, only the Polo in both overviews. Generally, you can argue that the Belgian is slightly more generous in the purchase of a new car, compared with medium and large models like the 3 Series, ix35 and Qashqai in the Netherlands is actually only the Outlander, and we all know what the incentive is so that it sells well…

Belgians buy more diverse

The Belgian purchasing behaviour differs from the Dutch, that the demand is more evenly spread over the different models: where 27.9% of sales is attributable to a top10-car, this percentage is in Belgium with 18.1% is significantly lower.

As a possible cause for the difference in numbers will by some of the following be proposed: half of Belgium, purchased in February his car at the motor show (or ‘the motor show’, if you’re Belgian) of Brussels, so about 3 months, the figures may be closer to each other.

That is probably so, because a december-final here, it is not inconceivable, but the above statement is not true. February and march were, with 46.140 to 52.808 registrations indeed good months, but it is not so that half of the total volume when rotated. If you have the sales volume to now extend it to the maandverkopen, then you come on thick 43,000 vehicles per month. Not very much less than the two cited months.

Photo: VW Golf GTD