Germany Car Sales By Brand : 1975-79

Cars such as the 100 were proving successful for Audi

By this time, brands associated as German had taken over the market. People were more affluent and premium marques were strong. Total sales were impressive.

Local: The top three had found their places for now, with the big three posher brands still jostling a bit. Porsche were making big sales gains, with the 924 and 928 being introduced.

Imports: This was a Japanese invasion of sorts as they all made very strong gains. Volvo took over the DAF car business in 1975. Innocenti made the Mini car under license, which I included with BL. A new Bertone styled Innocenti Mini was introduced, hence I separated sales figures.

75	76	77	78	79	Make	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
1	1	1	1	1	VW	481,353	528,635	565,518	593,484	580,571
2	2	2	2	2	Opel	382,608	466,931	492,044	516,141	471,911
3	3	3	3	3	Ford	286,750	345,607	370,991	370,293	311,920
7	5	4	5	4	Audi	107,640	134,460	224,461	214,298	246,637
4	4	5	4	5	Mercedes	195,520	203,213	220,485	221,443	242,848
5	6	6	6	6	BMW	128,637	130,090	140,182	154,567	153,923
6	7	7	7	7	Renault	119,889	123,455	126,436	121,809	129,759
8	8	8	8	8	Fiat	103,380	96,771	96,806	85,527	83,191
10	11	10	9	9	Citroen	50,097	41,163	48,551	58,447	50,702
9	9	9	10	10	Simca/Talbot	57,942	55,697	56,483	53,331	43,941
11	10	11	11	11	Peugeot	48,122	41,724	44,430	49,531	41,161
16	14	14	12	12	Toyota	12,182	17,209	21,636	32,121	32,506
20	18	15	16	13	Mazda	4,849	8,972	15,363	17,391	32,398
13	15	17	15	14	Nissan	16,492	13,312	11,633	18,553	31,979
25	24	21	18	15	Honda	1,839	3,275	8,196	16,485	28,693
14	13	13	14	16	Volvo	13,583	22,806	23,371	24,984	24,997
12	12	12	13	17	Alfa Romeo	34,348	25,544	23,404	26,282	22,762
34	33	22	19	18	Mitsubishi	23	28	5,446	12,637	20,725
23	19	20	20	19	Porsche	2,902	8,145	9,800	11,368	12,001
26	26	24	23	20	GM US	1,584	2,374	3,819	7,558	11,417
29	21	19	17	21	FSO	987	3,832	10,600	16,556	11,272
18	17	16	21	22	Lada	9,121	9,336	12,033	10,296	10,641
15	16	18	22	23	BLMC	12,457	11,082	11,010	9,052	8,567
22	25	26	26	24	Skoda	3,937	2,533	2,421	2,055	2,216
28	28	30	28	25	Saab	1,316	1,279	1,252	1,857	2,024
		29	27	26	Nuova Innoc		see BL	1,337	2,017	1,991
21	23	25	25	27	Autobianchi	4,835	3,291	3,078	3,239	1,945
32	30	33	31	28	Chrysler	106	126	255	965	1,789
19	20	27	30	29	Seat	6,574	4,133	1,736	1,247	1,619
		34	34	30	Daihatsu			112	232	1,235
30	27	28	29	31	Jaguar	771	1,557	1,362	1,547	1,138
31	29	32	33	32	Alpine	164	214	349	460	347
				33	Suzuki					332
	31	31	32	34	Teihol		96	615	560	268
33	32	35	35	35	Ferrari	65	55	101	156	146
24	22	23	24	-	Lancia	2,136	3,691	4,167	3,977
17					DAF	11,573	to Volvo
27					Zastava	1,463
					Sonstige	803	1,431	1,795	3,288	3,828
					Insgesamt	2,106,048	2,312,067	2,561,278	2,663,754	2,623,400

Data source: VDA.

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