UK Car Sales By Brand : 2000-04

Car sales were on the up in this period, although Ford managed to lose ground. Peugeot also went backwards, while Toyota and BMW had a very good spells. MG Rover was about over. It was crying out for a 45 replacement, the plans for which were rotting in a drawer in Munich. The 'other' figure seems too high for the year 2000. If anyone can shed light on that, please do so.

The nicely styled Ford Focus

The Ford Focus was the best seller through the period, with the Fiesta not far behind. Vauxhall had the Astra as it's biggest selling car and then the Corsa took over in 2002. The Peugeot 206 was either 4th or 5th throughout, while the Megane and Clio were hot for Renault. The VW Golf was now a regular in the top 10 too. The best of Rover, the 200/25 fell from 15th to 25th.

Looks fine...until you see it from the rear. Let's say it's different

Gaps in the chart below mean either I don't have them, they are very low or no sales at all.

00	01	02	03	04	Make	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
1	1	1	1	1	Ford	374,342	404,334	400,808	378,942	367,158
2	2	2	2	2	Vauxhall	296,519	310,153	318,655	326,436	325,012
4	4	4	3	3	Renault	161,142	181,651	194,685	189,940	189,342
5	5	5	5	4	VW	155,657	172,848	178,924	178,953	181,897
3	3	3	4	5	Peugeot	189,145	206,116	208,920	184,940	167,822
10	7	7	7	6	Toyota	83,621	98,154	104,498	117,531	121,081
9	6	6	6	7	Citroen	84,491	128,703	130,415	117,602	105,596
12	11	10	10	8	BMW	67,676	81,720	85,567	93,822	102,200
11	13	13	12	9	Honda	68,718	63,459	77,942	81,858	91,241
8	10	8	8	10	Nissan	84,947	93,144	100,751	105,798	90,223
13	12	12	11	11	Mercedes	63,754	76,458	80,859	93,625	81,963
14	14	14	14	12	Audi	43,168	54,037	65,656	70,824	77,039
6	9	9	9	13	MG Rover	103,663	97,202	99,108	95,848	76,768
7	8	11	13	14	Fiat	93,877	97,898	82,915	74,823	72,825
21	27	23	18	15	Mazda	20,041	14,259	27,776	37,854	47,739
	29	18	16	16	MINI		11,628	35,545	40,510	43,660
17	16	16	15	17	Land Rover	33,316	38,895	40,350	41,056	41,401
15	15	15	17	18	Volvo	36,943	40,014	40,679	39,062	40,005
19	19	21	22	19	Hyundai	26,248	27,080	29,183	32,238	37,611
18	17	17	19	20	Skoda	29,255	36,053	37,687	36,548	35,029
20	18	19	21	21	Suzuki	24,685	29,684	31,188	32,877	33,656
30	28	28	24	22	Kia	6,170	12,183	12,351	21,177	33,419
22	20	22	20	23	Seat	19,972	26,624	28,810	34,293	33,228
26	21	20	23	24	Jaguar	15,003	22,119	29,739	29,240	32,535
25	24	25	26	25	Mitsubishi	15,967	17,887	17,374	18,074	22,573
24	26	27	27	26	Saab	16,374	15,521	13,877	14,584	20,294
16	22	26	28	27	Daewoo	34,692	19,148	14,569	12,801	17,560
23	23	24	25	28	Chrysler	16,427	18,834	18,536	18,284	16,230
37	34	32	30	29	smart	956	4,303	7,589	9,744	11,844
29	30	30	32	30	Lexus	8,934	11,335	9,452	9,527	10,047
28	31	31	31	31	Subaru	9,728	9,767	8,173	9,675	8,823
32	32	33	33	32	Porsche	4,059	5,031	5,624	7,919	8,622
27	25	29	29	33	Alfa Romeo	9,845	16,867	11,713	10,307	8,072
31	33	34	34	34	Daihatsu	4,483	4,310	4,092	4,475	4,141
38	42	43	44	35	Bentley	513	378	322	270	1,993
33	35	35	35	36	Proton	3,299	3,577	2,752	1,861	1,754
			47	37	Ssangyong				147	928
35	36	37	36	38	Lotus	1,613	1,184	1,305	964	879
36	38	38	37	39	Perodua	1,142	1,111	914	879	760
	40	39	39	40	Aston Mart		548	551	483	636
34	37	36	38	41	Isuzu	1,770	1,181	1,463	878	510
39	41	41	41	42	Ferrari	499	489	421	462	480
40	44	42	42	43	Maserati	352	339	408	336	438
	39	40	40	44	TVR		659	496	467	323
41	43				GM US	288	373
					Others	8,353	1,511	989	1,116	1,912
					Total	2,221,647	2,458,769	2,563,631	2,579,050	2,567,269

Data source: SMMT.