3rd ICAI 2024

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2024

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

Table 10: Top 15 brands by sales (in thousands of units) and market share of passenger cars in European Union (green colour indicates improvement compared to the previous period in the table, yellow stagnation, red deterioration)

2006

2016

2023

1 Volkswagen

1,565 10.7% Volkswagen

1,652

11.3% Volkswagen

1,150

10.9%

2 Opel/Vauxhall 1,237

8.4% Renault

1,083

7.4% Toyota

687

6.5%

3 Renault

1,226

8.4% Ford

1,014

6.9% Renault

629

6.0%

4 Ford

1,192

8.1% Opel/Vauxhall

977

6.7% BMW

590

5.6%

5 Peugeot

1,048

7.1% Peugeot

849

5.8% Škoda

581

5.5%

6 Citroen

858 841

5.8% Mercedes

807 804

5.5% Mercedes

571 570

5.4% 5.4%

7 Fiat

5.7% Audi

5.5% Audi

8 Toyota

805

5.5% BMW

786

5.4% Peugeot

570

5.4%

9 Mercedes

676

4.6% Fiat

737 5.0% Dacia

520

4.9%

10 BMW

619

4.2% Škoda

633

4.3% Kia

453

4.3%

11 Audi

595

4.1% Toyota

563

3.8% Hyundai

432

4.1%

12 Škoda

427

2.9% Nissan

536

3.7% Ford

363

3.4%

13 Seat

362 306 302

2.5% Citroen 2.1% Hyundai

532 492

3.6% Fiat

359 352 335

3.4% 3.3% 3.2%

14 Nissan 15 Hyundai

3.4% Opel/Vauxhall

2.1% Kia

424 2.9% Citroen

Source: data ACEA (individual years of new registrations)

3.3 Passenger car market in Western Europe This part of the study describes the development of the passenger car market in the EU15 1 and EFTA 2 countries. New passenger car registrations in the EU15+EFTA, after a slump in 1993 caused by the economic recession of the early 1990s, gradually rose to a peak in 1999. At that year, more than 15 million new passenger cars were sold in these Western European countries. Subsequently, new registrations stagnated at higher levels until the economic crisis in 2008. After the crisis, the market experienced a five-year decline to a level of 11.6 million newly registered passenger cars in 2013. From then on, the market grew again until 2020, when the covid crisis came with the closure of production plants, followed by a crisis in supply chains. In 2022, due to supply-side shortages, 10.2 million cars were sold in the EU15+EFTA countries – the lowest since at least 1990.

1 Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom 2 European Free Trade Association – statistics for Iceland, Norway and Switzerland

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