Car Sales Turkey: 2012

The Turkish car market was down 6.3% for the year, but despite that the second biggest ever as 2011 was a record. Renault is a long time favourite for Turkish car buyers although VW is closing in. Dacia is getting an increasing following and Honda is back after a poor 2011.
The first three columns show 2010 to 2012 ranking, the second column in from the right is increase or decrease, and the extreme right shows market share for the major brands.

1	1	1	Renault	72,874	-23%	13.1%
5	4	2	VW	66,792	20%	12.0%
6	5	3	Opel	49,143	-7%	8.8%
2	2	4	Ford	47,030	-20%	8.5%
4	3	5	Fiat	44,295	-23%	8.0%
3	6	6	Hyundai	43,665	-6%	7.8%
7	7	7	Toyota	31,961	-13%	5.7%
11	10	8	Dacia	27,666	54%	5.0%
15	9	9	Nissan	18,873	2%	3.4%
9	8	10	Chevrolet	18,492	-22%	3.3%
10	14	11	Honda	16,516	24%	3.0%
13	12	12	BMW	15,247	2%	2.7%
14	13	13	Citroen	14,711	2%	2.6%
8	11	14	Peugeot	14,519	-6%	2.6%
16	16	15	Audi	13,720	14%	2.5%
12	15	16	Mercedes	12,730	1%	2.3%
17	17	17	Kia	11,870	22%	2.1%
18	18	18	Skoda	10,118	33%	1.8%
19	19	19	Seat	5,811	-4%	1.0%
20	20	20	Volvo	5,247	13%	0.9%
26	27	21	Suzuki	1,780	33%	0.8%
32	24	22	MINI	1,758	1%
22	22	23	Land Rover	1,590	-26%
24	21	24	Mitsubishi	1,289	-57%
33	31	25	Alfa Romeo	1,052	17%
25	26	26	Geely	1,019	-27%
29	32	27	Ssangyong	946	7%
21	23	28	Chery	810	-58%
23	25	29	Mazda	810	-50%
30	30	30	Jeep	799	-15%
28	28	31	Proton	760	-32%
31	29	32	Tata	684	-33%
27	33	33	Subaru	640	-16%
35	34	34	Porsche	497	12%
36	36	35	Lancia	276	55%
			Other	290	0%
			Total	556,280	-6%

Data source: Thanks to
www.odd.org.tr
Picture source: Thanks to
www.netcarshow.com