Volkswagen and Toyota in the lead
The car market in the European Union seems to be slowly but surely recovering, but in the first ten months of this year the total sales catch is still considerably behind that of 2021. Last month, almost 746,000 new passenger cars were sold in the EU, more than 12 percent more than in the same month last year.
In October, 745,855 new passenger cars were registered in the European Union. That was 12.2 percent more than the 664,861 units registered in October 2021. That sounds nice, but 2021 was not exactly a fantastic year for the car industry either. If we compare the sales results with those of October in the last year before the pandemic (2019), car sales fell by no less than 290,000 units last month.
If we look at the first ten months of this year, sales for 2022 will be 8.1 percent lower than last year in the same period. Since August, European car sales have been increasing continuously compared to last year, but between January and July car sales fell sharply, with shrinkage percentages of sometimes even well above 20 percent.
With 28,992 units, more than 20 percent more passenger cars were sold in the Netherlands in October than in the same month last year. In key European markets such as Germany and France, sales increased in October by 16.8 percent and 5.5 percent respectively.
Volkswagen was the best-selling car manufacturer in the European Union in October. With 85,217 passenger cars, the brand sold about 37 percent more cars than in October last year. Toyota is in second place with 54,100 passenger cars sold (+43 percent). Those two brands also rank first and second in European car sales in the first ten months of this year. Volkswagen sold 825,763 cars in that period, Toyota 524,279 units. Side note to these figures: Tesla, among others, is not included in ACEA’s figures. In September, for example, the Tesla Model Y was still the best-selling car in Europe, according to figures from Jato Dynamic.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl