Why the Giulia on the headerfoto so angry watching us is a mystery.
It is, in fact, very crescendo with Alfa Romeo if we have the sales figures for the first four months of 2017 within the European Union pack. Today brought ACEA figures to the outside, we have the most important things for you are filtered out. So, the number of new registrations in the months of January through april of this year increased by 4,7% compared to the same period last year.
In the month of april was slightly less and there you have it: according to ACEA, especially to Easter in april fell instead of in march. In the easter weekend are traditionally less cars sold because most people are very busy with woonboulevards, garden centres and other civil matters.
Furthermore, striking: in the United Kingdom, the decline in the number of new registrations in april with 19.8%. In Germany (-8%), France (-6%) and Italy (-4,6%) were the consequences of Easter is also palpable. Only Spain recorded a slight plus of 1.1%. Further, it was mainly the newer EU-countries, that the sales are somewhat up kept.
What brands were good?
For this overview, we look at brands in the first four months of 2017 their sales numbers with more than 15% saw a rise. Not because it is an internationally recognised measure, but because we somewhere a line must draw. Hats off for the following brands!
- Lada +52,1%
- Jaguar +43,9%
- Alfa Romeo +35,7%
- Suzuki +25,8%
- Seat +17,6%
- Toyota +17,5%
Which brands went mèh?
Unfortunately can’t be everywhere the flag, though of course, you have to keep in mind that the EU, for some brands, a relatively small and therefore less important for the market. These are the brands that their numbers of registrations back, and saw. Chevrolet we have not taken into account. That brand is GM of the European market, so its sale decreased by 100%.
- DS -35,7%
- Honda -11,9%
- Smart -8,2%
- Mazda -4,6%
- Mitsubishi -4,5%
- Land Rover Eur-2.9%
- Volkswagen -1,2%
- Opel/Vauxhall -1,1%
- Audi-0.5% of
- Jeep-0.3% of
Photo: thick Giulia Quadrifoglio by @maurice16, via Autojunk