Greece Top 4 Brands : 2000-13

Toyota Yaris 

While Greece grew quite strongly economically from 2000 to 2007, car sales remained between 260-290,000 sales per annum. When the crisis hit in 2008 that all changed. Problems with government debt and weakness with the economy hit the nation hard as we all know. Now car sales were in free fall, only levelling off in 2012 and 2013 just under the 60,000 mark. That is a slump of monumental proportions.

Opel Agila

In the chart below, the top brand sales went from 28,200 to 6,500, fourth from 23,500 to 4,000. Through all of this Toyota never dropped below third spot, quite an achievement as such turmoil produces instability. Opel has been there for the 13 years shown too. VW has come on strong of late.

Things are slowly improving now in 2014, but still a very subdued car market persists. It will be a long road back.

	Yr	1st	Sales	%	2nd	Sales	%	3rd	Sales	%	4th	Sales	%	%
	2000	Hyun	28.2	10	Toyo	26.4	9	Fiat	25.4	9	Opel	23.5	8	36
	2001	Opel	29.0	10	Hyun	25.8	9	Toyo	22.6	8	Fiat	23.1	8	36
	2002	Toyo	24.0	9	Peug	22.3	8	Hyun	21.9	8	Opel	20.7	8	33
	2003	Toyo	24.2	9	Hyun	20.9	8	Opel	19.8	8	Ford	17.4	7	32
	2004	Toyo	26.4	9	Hyun	24.9	9	Opel	23.6	8	VW	18.4	6	32
	2005	Hyun	24.9	9	Toyo	22.0	8	Opel	21.5	8	Ford	19.6	7	33
	2006	Toyo	25.5	10	VW	21.3	8	Ford	20.4	8	Opel	18.2	7	32
	2007	Toyo	27.7	10	Opel	23.3	8	VW	22.1	8	Ford	19.1	7	33
	2008	Toyo	26.5	10	VW	21.1	8	Opel	20.9	8	Hyun	18.6	7	33
	2009	Toyo	21.0	10	VW	18.7	8	Opel	17.2	8	Ford	15.6	7	33
	2010	Toyo	16.7	12	Opel	13.0	8	VW	12.9	9	Ford	10.2	7	37
	2011	Toyo	12.1	12	Opel	11.4	12	VW	9.5	10	Ford	6.4	7	40
	2012	Opel	7.1	12	VW	6.0	10	Toyo	5.7	10	Citr	4.2	7	39
	2013	Toyo	6.5	11	VW	6.3	11	Opel	5.6	9	Hyun	4.0	7	38

Data source: Thanks to SEEA Greece.