Finland Top 4 Brands : 1960-69

The Escort was a runaway success for Ford Europe

There were some big movements of sales in the 60's in Finland. Only 23,500 cars were sold in 1960, which climbed to 99,900 in 1965. The fell back to 48,300 in 1968, before rebounding nearly 75% to 84,500 in '69. Moskvich started the decade on top, but was not able to quite maintain it although always comfortably in the top 10 during the decade.

I don't have a full list of brand sales for each year. Therefore a company like BLMC that had a few brands under it cannot be fully assessed. Austin and Morris brands were strong sellers during the 60's, but without the rest of the brands known, they have to be kept separate. As to whether BL ever got into the top 4 I cannot say, but they certainly would have at the very least gone close.

Toyota surprised me with how they able to reach this list so early. I believe the brand only started selling cars officially in Europe in 1963. Nissan (then Datsun) arrived a year earlier and were soon regularly at 6th in Finland in the latter part of the decade, but for that reason don't show here.

Year	1st		2nd		3rd		4th
1960	Moskv	5,337	Škoda	3,332	VW	1,668	Ford	1,432
1961	Moskv	5,525	Škoda	3,714	VW	2,969	Ford	2,053
1962	Moskv	6,062	VW	5,049	Škoda	4,748	Ford	4,083
1963	Ford	7,733	VW	7,592	Fiat	3,755	Simca	3,587
1964	Ford	13,062	VW	10,010	Fiat	6,959	Opel	4,922
1965	VW	17,255	Ford	14,397	Opel	8,134	Fiat	8,042
1966	VW	14,137	Ford	10,714	Opel	6,513	Fiat	6,461
1967	VW	12,188	Ford	9,580	Fiat	5,572	Moskv	4,242
1968	Ford	9,190	VW	6,714	Fiat	4,526	Toyota	3,399
1969	Ford	13,929	VW	10,284	Fiat	8,509	Toyota	7,480

Data source: Thanks to Autolan Tiedotuskeskus.
For other decades: 1956-59, 1970-79, 1980-89, 1990-99, 2000-09. and 2010-19.

A 1969 Corolla model