UK Car Sales By Brand : 2005-09

The Ford Fiesta ended 2009 the best selling car

This period started strongly but fell away with the economic downturn that blighted the world's economy. Some brands fared better than others. Ford did rather well at this time, increasing it's market share form 14.2% in 20014 to 15.9% by 2009. Vauxhall on the other hand had it's 14.0% 2008 share slashed to 11.9% a year later. Mind you it had been doing well up until then.

Nissan had a very good 2009, growing strongly in such a weak environment. Renault gave up buying market share at the expense of profit and endured a catastrophic reduction. It had to be done, yet you wonder why it ever put itself in that position in the first place. Fiat, Hyundai and Kia meanwhile were all on the up.

The MINI reached an all time high in the UK in 2009

Models: Ford ended the five year period with the Fiesta and Focus on top, with the latter bumped out of number one place. Vauxhall had the Corsa and Astra behind them. The Golf and 3 Series were in the top 10 through this time, while Renault's Clio and Megane crashed out in 2008. BMW's MINI got an all time high of 7th in 2009. The Nissan Qashqai was 12th in '09 but moving up rapidly.

05	06	07	08	09	Brand	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
1	1	1	1	1	Ford	347,551	344,408	348,982	322,514	316,369
2	2	2	2	2	Vauxhall	317,353	301,679	331,321	298,908	238,033
3	3	3	3	3	VW	185,519	189,959	197,020	179,189	161,137
5	4	4	4	4	Peugeot	144,332	144,132	146,094	118,701	102,574
6	6	7	6	5	Toyota	122,534	117,819	118,493	105,717	102,574
7	7	6	5	6	BMW	111,666	115,616	121,575	113,132	98,683
11	10	9	7	7	Audi	82,496	85,494	100,864	100,845	91,172
10	12	12	12	8	Nissan	86,727	69,157	66,426	66,336	77,924
9	8	8	9	9	Honda	98,344	97,728	106,018	83,805	74,819
8	9	10	10	10	Citroen	99,576	95,575	97,750	81,237	72,450
12	11	11	11	11	Mercedes	82,247	81,076	82,321	74,883	72,281
4	5	5	8	12	Renault	174,743	138,094	126,816	89,568	63,174
20	13	13	13	13	Fiat	35,828	58,831	59,409	55,425	61,718
19	19	21	21	14	Hyundai	36,640	35,589	29,765	28,036	56,726
16	18	22	19	15	Kia	39,749	35,814	29,372	31,324	50,637
13	14	14	14	16	Mazda	45,706	49,631	50,947	49,858	47,934
14	17	15	15	17	MINI	44,770	38,018	47,661	40,736	39,866
18	16	17	16	18	Skoda	37,803	38,743	39,907	37,100	37,253
17	21	20	17	19	Volvo	38,376	30,553	30,058	33,358	34,857
23	20	18	20	20	Seat	28,431	32,839	34,790	29,397	29,987
15	15	16	18	21	Land Rover	43,769	42,793	46,552	32,567	29,185
21	22	19	22	22	Suzuki	32,090	30,510	32,861	26,095	28,539
27	28	27	24	23	Chevrolet	18,137	14,381	18,356	18,385	18,696
25	24	25	23	24	Jaguar	26,328	23,165	18,749	20,379	18,252
26	25	24	26	25	Mitsubishi	24,972	19,713	19,047	15,552	11,074
33	32	30	30	26	Alfa Romeo	6,396	5,249	7,355	5,950	9,067
31	31	32	29	27	smart	10,137	7,196	5,252	7,526	8,363
28	26	26	27	28	Chrysler	14,662	18,299	18,552	13,620	7,866
24	23	23	25	29	Saab	27,465	26,962	23,642	16,074	7,486
29	27	28	28	30	Lexus	10,548	14,691	15,119	10,122	7,266
30	29	29	31	31	Porsche	10,542	9,522	8,533	5,918	5,280
32	30	31	33	32	Subaru	8,926	7,299	6,051	4,668	3,730
34	34	33	32	33	Daihatsu	4,275	4,024	5,035	4,841	2,306
36	36	35	34	34	Aston Mart	1,796	2,292	2,190	1,565	1,183
37	35	34	36	35	Proton	1,652	2,701	2,468	1,518	960
38	37	37	40	36	Ssangyong	1,281	2,017	1,323	629	787
35	38	36	35	37	Bentley	2,096	1,902	2,079	1,542	761
40	40	38	41	38	Perodua	644	603	767	624	650
39	39	39	38	39	Lotus	934	820	712	647	485
41	41	40	39	40	Ferrari	635	595	699	644	452
42	42	41	37	41	Maserati	459	352	611	726	408
22	33	47	49	42	MGR/SAIC	29,091	4,805	199	138	374
49	44	42	42	45	GM US	184	294	456	358	223
43	47				TVR	392	176
45					Isuzu	229
					Others	1,686	3,748	1,810	1,638	1,438
					Total	2,439,717	2,344,864	2,404,007	2,131,795	1,994,999

Data source: SMMT.