Latvia Car/LCV Sales - Brand / 2016

The data for Latvia is published rather late and I overlooked releasing it. It covers both passenger cars and light commercial vehicles. The emphasis was on the PC but a few years back, it switched to both categories. Sales were up 15.3% which was healthy although well short of the inflated market of a decade ago.

Toyota was top of the pile but was relieved of that position several years ago. For 2017, none of the top brands did that well. Rather it was those just below the leaders that fared best. VW's market share dropped by over 2 percentage points, due the fact that it didn't grow at all as overall volumes went up. Opel had a fine 88% increase and jumped three places in the rankings.

In the chart below, yellow represents decrease, orange 0-20%, light green 21-99% and bright green over 100%.

12	13	14	15	16	Brand	2016	%	+/-		2015	%
1	1	1	1	1	VW	2,576	13.9	0%		2,571	16.0
2	2	2	2	2	Toyota	2,004	10.8	9%		1,839	11.4
6	5	5	3	3	Nissan	1,505	8.1	1%		1,494	9.3
4	4	3	4	4	Škoda	1,386	7.5	16%		1,193	7.4
7	6	8	5	5	Ford	1,287	6.9	40%		922	5.7
9	9	7	9	6	Opel	1,100	5.9	88%		586	3.6
3	3	4	8	7	Peugeot	988	5.3	65%		600	3.7
5	7	6	6	8	Renault	986	5.3	14%		866	5.4
13	11	11	11	9	Kia	774	4.2	41%		550	3.4
10	10	9	10	10	Citroën	756	4.1	33%		569	3.5
17	17	14	7	11	Fiat	637	3.4	-11%		715	4.4
8	8	13	13	12	Hyundai	575	3.1	35%		427	2.6
12	15	12	12	13	BMW	425	2.3	-17%		510	3.2
11	13	16	14	14	Mercedes	414	2.2	18%		350	2.2
14	16	15	18	15	Audi	384	2.1	26%		304	1.9
15	12	10	16	16	Dacia	346	1.9	6%		325	2.0
31	22	31	15	17	Lada	325	1.7	-3%		334	2.1
18	18	19	17	18	Subaru	299	1.6	-3%		308	1.9
19	19	18	21	19	Volvo	250	1.3	32%		190	1.2
16	19	20	22	20	Mitsubishi	242	1.3	29%		187	1.2
21	14	17	19	21	Honda	227	1.2	-5%		238	1.5
27	25	25	26	22	Mazda	211	1.1	76%		120	0.7
22	21	21	23	23	Lexus	201	1.1	20%		168	1.0
24	23	23	20	24	Land Rover	190	1.0	-7%		204	1.3
20	32	22	24	25	Suzuki	95	0.5	-37%		150	0.9
28	27	24	25	26	Chrysler	89	0.5	-33%		133	0.8
26	26	26	27	27	Porsche	66	0.4	-3%		68	0.4
30	28	27	29	28	MINI	58	0.3	53%		38	0.2
33	33	33	32	29	Jaguar	40	0.2	186%		14	0.1
29	29	29	30	30	Seat	35	0.2	84%		19	0.1
32	31	30	31	31	Bentley	34	0.2	113%		16	0.1
34	36	35	28	32	Alfa Romeo	29	0.2	-52%		60	0.4
					Other	41	0.2			46	0.2
					Total	18,575		15%		16,114

Data source: Auto Asociacija.