European car market is starting to pluses

Posted on 16-06-2016 at 8:54 by CasperH – 23 Comments”

In the month of may, there were considerably more cars were sold in Europe, but which brands did it best?

The ACEA made this morning, the sales figures are known: 1,28 million cars found their first owner last month. Thus grew the European car market for the 33rd month in a row. In may compared to last year’s double-digit growth achieved in all major European automobile markets, except that of the British. In the Netherlands, was the plus smaller, namely, around five percent. Italy, France and Spain were the biggest risers, there were the sales figures by more than 20% increase (in Italy even with 27.3%). There are In total in 2016 to now 9.9% of new cars sold in Europe compared to last year.

Most of the new cars in Germany sold, there were 287.000 cars to their first owner. In the Netherlands, more than 29,000 new cars sold. Which brands best did? The well-known superpowers, of course. Volkswagen did it in spite of disappointing sales are still the best.

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1Volkswagen143.30311,1%

2Renault100.6987,8%

3Opel86.5886,7%

4Ford85.8246,7%

5Peugeot79.0676.1

When we go to the groups than in the Volkswagen Group with great distance to be a frontrunner in the European market, followed by Renault, PSA of the second place hit. The top 5 is completed by the Fiat-Chrysler and Opel.

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1VW Group309.70824,0%

2Renault Group137.10210,6%

3PSA Group135.44210,5%

4FCA Group96,6927,5%

5Opel Group86.5886,7%

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