Car Sales France By Brand : 2010-14

The Nissan Qashqai has sold well in France

The car market in France has been subdues for the last few years. Seeing as the big three French car makers rely so heavily on local support, it has hit them. Added to that they have collectively slipped just below 50% of total sales. Renault had 40% of sales in 1980, 30% in 1994 and now under 20%. That has been a common pattern for many top selling makes in Europe.

VW sales held up well in a difficult market. They must have some very good diesels to do that. Renault's Dacia established itself as a popular brand at this time. Toyota held its sales volume but was outdone by its rival Nissan who overtook them. US duo Ford and Opel didn't do nearly so well.

Rk	Make	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
1	Renault	497,820	455,705	343,345	337,608	353,906
2	Peugeot	400,663	369,761	305,440	289,587	305,015
3	Citroën	328,146	323,076	266,430	238,317	231,131
4	VW	146,538	163,584	154,434	141,427	139,554
5	Dacia	104,641	88,980	80,790	89,844	102,519
6	Ford	114,810	115,357	92,468	76,470	75,090
7	Nissan	54,084	71,767	69,692	62,983	68,072
8	Toyota	65,390	67,320	68,007	71,693	66,775
9	Opel	94,877	94,102	71,666	59,620	61,246
10	Audi	50,936	58,970	61,754	59,147	56,395
11	Mercedes	45,612	43,545	47,567	46,966	49,149
12	BMW	46,074	46,305	48,045	46,742	47,682
13	Fiat	72,717	57,326	43,554	47,683	45,738
14	Kia	24,056	27,961	33,018	33,503	28,186
15	Seat	30,645	33,268	24,180	22,039	21,090
16	Škoda	18,533	21,185	22,464	19,341	20,412
17	MINI	18,007	21,702	21,483	19,099	18,278
18	Hyundai	18,785	20,204	28,733	25,738	17,165
19	Suzuki	22,070	19,233	16,026	15,485	15,000
20	Volvo	11,841	15,192	13,396	11,024	12,459
21	Alfa Romeo	13,033	16,232	10,323	8,047	7,608
22	Honda	11,251	8,793	8,406	8,846	7,091
23	Land Rover	2,735	4,317	7,770	6,716	6,794
24	Lancia	3,368	4,000	5,248	4,812	6,105
25	Mazda	10,232	6,509	5,107	6,272	6,062
26	Chevrolet	21,247	23,708	24,739	21,518	4,185
27	smart	6,408	6,810	5,441	5,267	4,149
28	Mitsubishi	3,514	4,386	3,639	3,448	3,496
29	Lexus	1,921	2,872	2,456	2,960	3,486
30	Porsche	2,073	2,734	3,336	2,813	3,449
31	Chrysler	2,914	2,968	3,243	1,329	2,783
32	Bollore		399	1,543	658	1,170
33	Subaru	1,146	831	971	928	731
34	Jaguar	1,126	1,001	897	879	715
35	Infiniti	267	445	441	197	669
36	Maserati	162	107	98	172	429
37	Ssangyong	402	560	290	209	344
38	Lada	346	405	248
39	Daihatsu	1,083	217	352
40	Saab	574	377
	Others	1,622	2,015	1,720	1,069	1,785
	Total	2,251,669	2,204,229	1,898,760	1,790,456	1,795,913

The series started at: 1974-79.
The previous article in the series was 2005-09.

Data source: CCFA.