Used cars: BMW is, in 2016, more popular than Volkswagen

Posted on 15-01-2016 at 13:18 by autoblogger – 7 Comments”

That predicts the Marketplace.

The occasionsite expected that BMW in 2016 the most sought after and most popular car brand. Bimmers are currently more popular than ever on ebay, Car, since 2013, are the number of queries for the German brand with more than 25%. Possible reasons are the desire for status (premium,jwz), but also the growth of sales of new BMW’s and the related growth of the second-hand offerings.

In 2015 was the BMW 3 Series on the 3rd spot of most searched models:
1. Volkswagen Golf
2. Volkswagen Polo
3. BMW 3-Series
4. Opel Corsa
5. Opel Astra

Thanks to or despite dieselgate remains Volkswagen in absolute numbers, the demand in the occasionmarkt dominate. There are currently nearly 18,000 of Volkswagen on Marketplace offered. The brand is from the start of Marketplace Car has always been the most popular car brand, but there is now a fall to second place.

“The Dutch fleet is still more of luxury cars. That has to do with the fact that the Netherlands have more to spend. In addition, we drive not only luxury brands, but also more expensive and more luxurious models from the low – and mid-market segment. BMW is profiting the most from due to the diversity of models and capacity for innovation.”, according to Paul de Vries, founder of Nieuweautokopen.nl (part of eBay/Marktplaats). In addition, he believes that it is additional amazing that BMW is such a good seller in the Netherlands, while they are not real bijtellingstoppers had such as the Mercedes C350 Plug-in Hybrid or the Audi A3 e-tron.

In other words, BMW is the new Volkswagen! And on that bombshell, the most sought after BMW’s on ebay:
1. 3 series
2. 5 series
3. 1 series
4. X5
5. 7 series

Image credit: BMW 7 Series with a caravan autojunk.nl.