Netherlands Car Sales By Brand : 1995-99

Over 17,5000 of the Opel Corsa model were sold in 1999

Car sales were on a roll in the Netherlands and hit an all time peak in 1999. Unfortunately for GM Opel, it wasn't maintaining its share of the pie and was in danger of losing its long held lead. VW was breathing down its neck and 30,000 Golf sales were instrumental in that. Renault had now passed Ford. Generally Japanese brands had grown but not in line with total sales.

Daewoo burst onto the scene with gusto and the little Matiz accounted for 9,000 sales in 1999. A mini car by the name of smart also arrived but it was the end of the line for volume sales for Lada.

	Rk	Make	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
	1	Opel	62,867	64,659	62,437	71,719	81,967
	2	VW	48,196	55,172	57,081	63,453	75,454
	3	Renault	32,590	33,873	39,319	46,918	56,406
	4	Ford	38,009	47,323	41,722	45,347	51,466
	5	Peugeot	30,557	30,800	34,109	37,983	42,975
	6	Toyota	21,167	19,861	21,236	25,181	28,191
	7	Fiat	18,304	21,657	20,808	24,661	25,707
	8	Mazda	16,891	15,905	15,508	16,238	19,600
	9	Citroën	16,842	15,516	16,211	18,090	18,627
	10	Seat	10,018	8,645	9,919	14,077	17,930
	11	Volvo	18,998	19,582	19,053	19,168	17,556
	12	Mercedes	10,333	11,383	12,055	14,858	17,002
	13	Suzuki	14,740	15,250	15,686	16,348	16,982
	14	Nissan	19,819	20,015	17,291	18,693	16,545
	15	Mitsubishi	9,302	10,355	13,669	14,799	15,376
	16	Daewoo	6,150	8,042	8,275	11,068	14,696
	17	BMW	9,641	10,805	10,684	12,011	12,824
	18	Hyundai	8,807	11,328	9,177	9,452	11,789
	19	Audi	9,255	8,961	10,942	11,716	11,089
	20	Alfa Romeo	7,191	5,914	5,562	8,923	9,650
	21	Daihatsu	5,712	6,259	7,204	7,859	9,573
	22	Honda	8,474	8,120	8,285	7,881	7,154
	23	MG Rover	5,557	5,815	5,331	6,204	5,770
	24	Saab	2,355	2,183	2,471	3,553	4,286
	25	Subaru	2,567	2,635	2,364	3,073	4,132
	26	Chrysler	2,955	3,305	3,330	3,421	3,805
	27	Škoda	906	931	1,025	2,114	3,126
	28	Kia	1,722	2,321	1,612	1,478	2,651
	29	smart				485	2,607
	30	Lancia	2,234	2,906	2,626	2,799	2,371
	31	Land Rover	289	342	513	886	1,270
	32	Jaguar	417	381	536	688	1,093
	33	GM US	1,892	1,855	773	723	898
	34	Lexus	128	79	92	285	549
	35	Porsche	80	78	208	262	299
	36	Lada	1,047	680	549	303
		Others	376	537	655	393	360
		Total	446,388	473,473	478,318	543,110	611,776

Data source: Autoweek.

The Daewoo Matiz made a splash when it arrived