Fourth good month in a row, but a disappointing total
Sales of new passenger cars in the European Union are increasing for the fourth month in a row. In November, 16.3 percent more new passenger cars were registered. That all sounds nice, but the annual total is still disappointing.
As a result of, among other things, the worldwide chip shortage, car sales in the European Union were at their proverbial gap for a large part of this year. From August onwards, however, more new passenger cars were registered each month than in the same month in the previous year, and November was the fourth month in a row in which this was the case. There were 829,527 new passenger cars registered in the EU in November. That was no less than 16.3 percent more than the approximately 713,000 units registered in the European Union in November last year.
Because car sales in the Eurozone from January to July were well below those of the same period last year, the provisional annual total of 8,359,317 new passenger cars is still below last year. In the first eleven months of 2021, 8,904,430 new passenger cars were registered.
In the Netherlands, 27,810 new passenger cars were registered in November, 2.2 percent more than in November 2021. In countries such as Belgium (+23.4 percent), Germany (+31.4 percent), France (+9.8 percent), Portugal (+39.4 percent), Spain (+10.3 percent), Italy (+14.7 percent) and Sweden (+21.5 percent) attracted much stronger growth in the car market.
Most popular brands
As in October, Volkswagen was the best-selling car manufacturer in the European Union in November. With almost 94,000 passenger cars, the brand sold more than 42 percent more than in November last year. Toyota is in second place with almost 60,000 passenger cars (+34 percent). Volkswagen is also the most popular car brand in the EU for the first eleven months of 2022. Between January and November, 919,170 new Volkswagens were registered in the European Union (-9 percent). Here too we find Toyota in second place (583,036 units, +8.3 percent) followed by Peugeot with 513,538 registrations (-13.6 percent). Fourth place is for Renault (480,290 units, -16.4 percent). Mercedes-Benz (429,626 registrations, +0.9 percent) and BMW (451,796 cars, -8.7 percent) follow in fifth and sixth place respectively.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl