Car Sales France By Brand : 2000-04

The 2004 Citroën Xsara Picasso

Sales were very consistent through this period, with the 2 million mark being passed in each year. The top three French brands held just under 60% of all sales, which was very high. VW had a poor run at this time and perhaps it needed help with it diesel engines but help was on its way (tongue in cheek). Fiat had a poor few years as did Rover which was running on empty.

Asian brands (salmon shaded below) generally did well in a country not that keen on them. Toyota has a plant there and no doubt that helped sway some French buyers. The MINI arrived and immediately was a hit.

Rk	Make	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
1	Renault	602,415	599,857	579,618	546,014	549,192
2	Peugeot	397,547	466,679	431,678	379,246	363,247
3	Citroën	261,508	295,343	288,550	271,470	256,752
4	VW	152,686	161,562	137,812	119,318	124,145
5	Opel	133,576	137,850	122,549	120,758	110,329
6	Ford	117,178	108,554	100,087	91,678	101,631
7	Toyota	43,313	51,140	63,988	71,592	77,923
8	Mercedes	43,389	52,062	56,696	51,393	49,191
9	Fiat	95,983	86,751	69,401	55,942	48,283
10	Nissan	31,330	28,898	30,112	39,840	37,568
11	BMW	31,576	35,832	34,076	31,551	37,108
12	Audi	34,937	40,268	41,315	37,411	36,507
13	Seat	40,562	42,175	37,409	34,608	32,642
14	Hyundai	11,019	13,509	18,575	23,124	27,814
15	Suzuki	11,355	14,352	12,351	13,411	18,140
16	Alfa Romeo	12,774	19,464	17,342	13,908	13,454
17	smart	6,645	7,628	8,231	8,904	12,721
18	Mazda	6,366	4,337	7,030	9,807	12,179
19	Škoda	11,570	13,152	14,033	12,555	12,131
20	Volvo	6,777	7,228	8,551	8,668	11,858
21	MINI		1,781	9,263	10,644	10,858
22	Kia	2,631	2,015	1,572	4,304	8,846
23	Chrysler	7,828	8,944	8,792	8,478	8,746
24	GM Daewoo	11,731	5,835	4,312	4,487	7,941
25	Mitsubishi	5,575	8,225	7,345	7,836	7,751
26	Honda	8,716	6,454	6,377	5,547	6,756
27	MG Rover	13,961	9,052	7,115	6,805	6,146
28	Land Rover	7,570	6,607	5,603	5,604	5,644
29	Saab	3,265	3,701	3,575	2,898	3,296
30	Lancia	5,864	5,364	2,065	1,971	3,061
31	Jaguar	1,962	2,236	2,363	2,077	2,912
32	Porsche	825	940	1,032	1,602	2,117
33	Subaru	2,312	1,911	1,930	1,498	1,447
34	Lada	1,867	2,181	1,856	1,861	1,405
35	Daihatsu	1,043	739	680	964	1,297
36	Lexus	385	724	635	607	744
37	Ssangyong					467
38	GM US	567	727	513	324	275
39	Santana	4,231	702
	Others	1,045	816	639	541	1,185
	Total	2,133,884	2,255,595	2,145,071	2,009,246	2,013,709

The series started with 1974-79.
The previous blog in the series was 1995-99.
The next in the series was 2005-09.

Picture source: Netcarshow.