Car Sales France By Brand : 1985-89

The Renault Clio on a rainy day. Sold really well

Sales grew storngly in France through this period. Both Renault and Peugeot had slight market gains but Citroën was down and Talbot went altogether. Some makes did really well while others didn't seem to benefit from the buying spree. All the Japanese brands struggled to make headway.

One brand I noticed was Ebro, a Spanish company that made mainly commercial vehicles but also off road vehicles and I assume the latter is what is found here. It was eventually bought out by Nissan and their products gradually took over.

Rk	Make	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
1	Renault	507,788	602,910	641,657	642,501	661,083
2	Peugeot	364,367	390,264	440,673	491,813	473,096
3	Citroën	226,789	222,715	262,822	265,878	273,014
4	Ford	133,288	131,077	143,448	142,899	160,835
5	VW	86,221	90,103	102,401	120,460	138,842
6	Fiat	74,447	96,111	115,810	130,732	134,470
7	Opel	87,088	91,011	96,740	106,435	115,835
8	Seat	22,010	25,103	30,607	33,512	38,329
9	MG Rover	31,944	38,996	39,889	40,813	37,660
10	Audi	24,513	24,670	26,305	35,725	31,624
11	BMW	29,347	30,519	26,585	31,693	30,645
12	Mercedes	20,939	23,235	24,535	25,154	26,421
13	Nissan	15,515	16,531	17,673	18,136	20,197
14	Lada	20,094	21,132	22,893	21,910	18,532
15	Alfa Romeo	14,907	17,075	17,552	16,677	16,656
16	Volvo	18,157	19,260	18,755	17,265	16,596
17	Mazda	13,836	14,334	16,579	17,853	15,355
18	Toyota	11,933	12,628	14,296	14,968	14,686
19	Lancia	8,508	9,586	10,414	7,441	13,269
20	Honda	8,824	9,354	10,239	9,855	10,789
21	Chrysler	132	116	412	1,330	5,642
22	Mitsubishi	3,341	3,204	3,275	3,518	3,457
23	Saab	1,565	2,204	2,626	2,878	2,915
24	Land Rover	185	637	813	1,493	2,069
25	Jaguar	266	386	894	1,305	1,696
26	Zastava	1,621	1,054	1,252	1,640	1,621
27	Ebro			171	629	1,554
28	Porsche	1,432	1,606	1,612	1,412	1,305
29	FSO	1,457	1,312	1,607	1,841	1,269
30	Santana	109	570	867	1,034	1,108
31	Autobianchi	9,704	9,199	7,877	5,696	1,071
32	Škoda	3,222	2,672	1,482	620	595
33	Innocenti	1,341	1,321	1,729	353	208
34	Talbot	21,100
	Others	338	626	690	1,680	1,863
	Total	1,766,328	1,911,521	2,105,180	2,217,149	2,274,307

The series started with 1974-79.
The previous blog in the series was 1980-84.
The next in the series was 1990-94.