Israel Car Sales - Brand / 2016

By Daljit Kalsi Tuesday, 18 April 2017

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The market increased nearly 13% for 2016, the fourth year of increase and a record too. The Israel Tax Authority has created a new formula for calculating the environmental tax on vehicles, effective on January 1, 2017. It will create a price rise for smaller cars (which seems ironic).

Hyundai is the leader, followed by Kia, a Korean 1 2 and 27% of all sales. Toyota had a small gain but lost a whole percentage point of market share, down to 10.5%. Mazda was in years gone by the biggest brand but it is currently 6th, while Mitsubishi has had a good run of late.

Further down, we see Ford had a strong performance after a fall from 2nd place in 2012. Ssangyong did well along with Land Rover, smart and Jaguar.

Pale yellow represents a reduction in registrations, pale blue is increase but lost market share. Green is for those exceeding the market growth and finally the salmon colour for those over 100% increase.

	12	13	14	15	16	Brand	2016	%	+/-
	1	1	1	2	1	Hyundai	39,086	13.6%	25%
	4	3	3	1	2	Kia	38,069	13.3%	13%
	3	2	2	3	3	Toyota	30,040	10.5%	3%
	5	4	5	6	4	Škoda	19,511	6.8%	21%
	18	14	7	5	5	Mitsubishi	17,988	6.3%	12%
	6	7	4	4	6	Mazda	14,303	5.0%	-16%
	9	6	6	7	7	Suzuki	13,413	4.7%	9%
	8	8	9	8	8	Nissan	11,664	4.1%	-2%
	11	9	10	9	9	Renault	10,786	3.8%	16%
	10	11	8	13	10	GM US	9,087	3.2%	24%
	7	10	13	10	11	VW	9,064	3.2%	14%
	15	15	14	11	12	Seat	8,362	2.9%	9%
	20	19	16	12	13	Subaru	7,738	2.7%	1%
	13	13	15	15	14	Citroën	7,620	2.7%	33%
	14	12	11	16	15	Honda	6,998	2.4%	30%
	12	17	19	14	16	Peugeot	6,404	2.2%	9%
	16	16	17	17	17	Opel	5,096	1.8%	5%
	17	18	18	18	18	Fiat	4,711	1.6%	3%
	19	20	20	19	19	Audi	4,183	1.5%	25%
	2	5	12	23	20	Ford	4,021	1.4%	106%
	-	-	39	22	21	Dacia	3,454	1.2%	43%
	24	21	21	20	22	Mercedes	3,419	1.2%	33%
	22	22	22	21	23	BMW	3,021	1.1%	24%
	23	23	23	24	24	Isuzu	1,957	0.7%	24%
	27	27	24	25	25	Lexus	1,400	0.5%	-3%
	25	25	25	26	26	Volvo	1,261	0.4%	24%
	21	24	26	27	27	Chrysler	948	0.3%	6%
	28	29	28	29	28	MINI	658	0.2%	8%
	26	28	27	30	29	Alfa Romeo	510	0.2%	-2%
	30	32	29	32	30	Ssangyong	435	0.2%	93%
	29	31	31	31	31	Infiniti	348	0.1%	-10%
	30	30	30	33	32	Land Rover	339	0.1%	80%
	34	26	39	28	33	SAIC	289	0.1%	-67%
	33	34	35	37	34	smart	175	0.1%	400%
	37	35	33	34	35	Jaguar	172	0.1%	132%
	38	37	34	35	36	Porsche	92		70%
	?	?	37	36	37	Maserati	53		43%
	-	-	-	-	38	DS	30		n/a
						Others	23
						Total	286,728		13%

Data source: Car Importers Israel.
Text source: RayCee.