Car Sales France By Brand : 2000-04

The 2004 Citroën Xsara Picasso

Sales were very consistent through this period, with the 2 million mark being passed in each year. The top three French brands held just under 60% of all sales, which was very high. VW had a poor run at this time and perhaps it needed help with it diesel engines but help was on its way (tongue in cheek). Fiat had a poor few years as did Rover which was running on empty.

Asian brands (salmon shaded below) generally did well in a country not that keen on them. Toyota has a plant there and no doubt that helped sway some French buyers. The MINI arrived and immediately was a hit.

	Rk	Make	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
	1	Renault	602,415	599,857	579,618	546,014	549,192
	2	Peugeot	397,547	466,679	431,678	379,246	363,247
	3	Citroën	261,508	295,343	288,550	271,470	256,752
	4	VW	152,686	161,562	137,812	119,318	124,145
	5	Opel	133,576	137,850	122,549	120,758	110,329
	6	Ford	117,178	108,554	100,087	91,678	101,631
	7	Toyota	43,313	51,140	63,988	71,592	77,923
	8	Mercedes	43,389	52,062	56,696	51,393	49,191
	9	Fiat	95,983	86,751	69,401	55,942	48,283
	10	Nissan	31,330	28,898	30,112	39,840	37,568
	11	BMW	31,576	35,832	34,076	31,551	37,108
	12	Audi	34,937	40,268	41,315	37,411	36,507
	13	Seat	40,562	42,175	37,409	34,608	32,642
	14	Hyundai	11,019	13,509	18,575	23,124	27,814
	15	Suzuki	11,355	14,352	12,351	13,411	18,140
	16	Alfa Romeo	12,774	19,464	17,342	13,908	13,454
	17	smart	6,645	7,628	8,231	8,904	12,721
	18	Mazda	6,366	4,337	7,030	9,807	12,179
	19	Škoda	11,570	13,152	14,033	12,555	12,131
	20	Volvo	6,777	7,228	8,551	8,668	11,858
	21	MINI		1,781	9,263	10,644	10,858
	22	Kia	2,631	2,015	1,572	4,304	8,846
	23	Chrysler	7,828	8,944	8,792	8,478	8,746
	24	GM Daewoo	11,731	5,835	4,312	4,487	7,941
	25	Mitsubishi	5,575	8,225	7,345	7,836	7,751
	26	Honda	8,716	6,454	6,377	5,547	6,756
	27	MG Rover	13,961	9,052	7,115	6,805	6,146
	28	Land Rover	7,570	6,607	5,603	5,604	5,644
	29	Saab	3,265	3,701	3,575	2,898	3,296
	30	Lancia	5,864	5,364	2,065	1,971	3,061
	31	Jaguar	1,962	2,236	2,363	2,077	2,912
	32	Porsche	825	940	1,032	1,602	2,117
	33	Subaru	2,312	1,911	1,930	1,498	1,447
	34	Lada	1,867	2,181	1,856	1,861	1,405
	35	Daihatsu	1,043	739	680	964	1,297
	36	Lexus	385	724	635	607	744
	37	Ssangyong					467
	38	GM US	567	727	513	324	275
	39	Santana	4,231	702
		Others	1,045	816	639	541	1,185
		Total	2,133,884	2,255,595	2,145,071	2,009,246	2,013,709

The series started with 1974-79.
The previous blog in the series was 1995-99.
The next in the series was 2005-09.

Picture source: Netcarshow.