Cyprus Car Sales : 1998-2003

Cyprus is a small island state in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, divided into a Greek and Turkish side. I presume car sales are for the whole island. Sales are not large in number and there are many brands. Things change rapidly here as you will see. They tend to in smaller markets.

VW was top in the year 2000 but fell to 5th in 2001. Mitsubishi dropped from 2nd in 1999 to 8th in 2000 and for the same years Honda went from 4th to 9th. For the full period here, Land Rover fell from 7th to 22nd. MG Rover was on the way out as the company declined.

Were they any good luck stories? Well, Daewoo jumped from 26th to 12th, Nissan from 13th to 6th, Citroën 26th to 14th and Renault 9th to 1st. Number one brands were VW, Toyota, Peugeot and Renault. None of those brands have been first again apart from Toyota & Peugeot just once each.

Brand	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Renault	285	261	715	988	718	1,175
Peugeot	374	505	807	1,079	1,262	985
Toyota	456	684	936	1,197	992	858
Volkswagen	1,009	805	1,016	967	1,034	801
Honda	726	596	381	534	789	784
Nissan	229	295	308	380	307	559
Mercedes	354	397	496	553	501	549
Opel/Vauxhall	289	395	568	1,032	634	543
Mitsubishi	975	716	450	335	322	435
BMW	206	340	477	490	434	318
Suzuki	268	276	194	335	245	249
Daewoo	54	193	368	226	61	228
Mazda	199	131	153	84	105	159
Citroën	54	47	67	119	150	151
Audi	237	121	99	167	147	137
Ford	100	112	95	124	147	137
Seat	75	20	42	72	111	136
Hyundai	131	177	108	251	93	97
Isuzu	249	91	29	232	176	96
MINI				10	72	96
Kia	17	29	49	68	70	95
Land Rover	312	414	237	202	150	79
Alfa Romeo	72	95	67	93	102	78
Volvo	10	20	41	48	81	63
Subaru	94	77	72	44	37	60
Chrysler	72	63	80	42	19	40
Ssangyong	71	67	25	10	49	36
Fiat	43	49	93	78	70	34
Jaguar	9	17	27	23	34	30
Saab	32	48	59	37	23	26
Lexus				8	33	25
Daihatsu	82	46	38	99	48	23
Škoda	6	7	11	4	8	20
Porsche	7	7	17	14	8	16
MG Rover	182	74	34	22	18	10
smart					1	8
Perodua	87	38	26	25	45	5
Proton	45	44	8	1
Other	19	14	18	9	26	4
Total	7,430	7,271	8,211	10,002	9,122	9,145

Data source: Ministry of Finance, Cyprus.