Car Sales By Brand Singapore : 2014

She obviously has her COE sorted

In Singapore, to buy a car, you bid for a limited number of Certificate of Entitlements (COE), which you can get a basic idea of by clicking here. As for what you pay, click here and it seems presently in the $65,000 range. Then you have to buy the car! It limits the amount of cars on the road, but makes car purchasing very expensive. However, when a car hits ten years old mark, another COE has to be paid or the vehicle deregistered. If the latter is chosen, it takes the car off the road and frees up another COE.

That must have happened a lot in 2014, because sales were up 29% compared to the 20% drop in 2013. Mainstream cars took back some of the market from premium marques in 2014. Toyota regained top spot with a whopping 57% sales increase and many regular brands moved up the rankings even more spectacularly. The high sales of premium cars helps European makes do well, although the best selling mainstream cars are Japanese.

If more cars get deregistered in 2015 as seems to be the case, there will be another sales increase coming. The COE system keeps the road traffic and congestion under control, and with a good public transport system car ownership isn't essential anyway.

10	11	12	13	14	Make	2014	%	+/-
1	3	3	3	1	Toyota	5,431	18.8%	57%
2	2	2	1	2	Mercedes	4,651	16.1%	20%
3	1	1	2	3	BMW	3,247	11.2%	-13%
4	4	4	4	4	VW	2,522	8.7%	-12%
10	18	18	7	5	Mazda	1,967	6.8%	210%
9	10	8	8	6	Nissan	1,829	6.3%	193%
8	5	5	5	7	Audi	1,565	5.4%	-13%
5	8	11	11	8	Honda	1,541	5.3%	264%
14	9	7	6	9	Volvo	910	3.1%	-3%
7	6	6	10	10	Hyundai	869	3.0%	89%
6	7	9	15	11	Kia	749	2.6%	179%
13	22	21	18	12	Subaru	627	2.2%	212%
16	12	12	13	13	Porsche	375	1.3%	3%
19	14	14	9	14	Jaguar	341	1.2%	-30%
32	21	15	12	15	Land Rover	299	1.0%	-18%
11	11	13	16	16	Chevrolet	293	1.0%	14%
17	16	16	20	17	Citroen	272	0.9%	58%
23	13	10	14	18	Peugeot	229	0.8%	-22%
18	20	17	17	19	Ford	208	0.7%	0%
22	15	19	19	20	MINI	193	0.7%	5%
26	19	22	22	21	Renault	125	0.4%	3%
15	17	20	24	22	Suzuki	107	0.4%	26%
29	29	23	23	23	Opel	102	0.4%	-15%
-	42	27	28	24	Infiniti	91	0.3%	168%
12	23	29	30	25	Mitsubishi	79	0.3%	172%
35	30	24	21	26	Bentley	70	0.2%	-44%
28	26	25	27	27	Maserati	56	0.2%	0%
27	32	32	34	28	Alfa Romeo	35	0.1%	106%
33	25	26	25	29	Ferrari	31	0.1%	-55%
34	33	34	29	30	Chrysler	27	0.1%	-13%
38	36	32	26	31	Rolls Royce	19	0.1%	-67%
40	39	39	38	32	Ssangyong	13		86%
-	-	36	31	33	Mclaren	11		-56%
36	31	30	32	34	Lamborghini	10		-57%
					Others	38
					Total	28,932		29%

Data source: LTA Singapore
PS. Sales figures exclude taxis.