UK Top 5 Supermini Car Sales : 2004 -2016

In a class I'd prefer to call 'small' (but why make it simple?) two models have dominated. First it was mainly GM's small Vauxhall Corsa, followed by the Ford Fiesta becoming king of the segment. It has been top now for the past eight years not only in this class in total sales. About one third of UK sales are found in this segment.

The supermini  category is the best selling and for this period, it was only in 2005 that the class above took the honours. The best year numerically was 2015 when over 900,000 super minis were sold. Data sourced from the SMMT.

	2004				2005
	Vauxhall	Corsa	101,625		Vauxhall	Corsa	89,463
	Ford	Fiesta	89,295		Ford	Fiesta	83,803
	Peugeot	206	86,605		Peugeot	206	67,450
	Renault	Clio	72,412		Renault	Clio	56,538
	Ford	Ka	45,879		MINI	MINI	44,770
	Other	52.9%	443,788		Other	53.3%	390,732
	Total		839,604		Total		732,756
	2006				2007
	Ford	Fiesta	103,856		Ford	Fiesta	102,872
	Vauxhall	Corsa	73,923		Vauxhall	Corsa	94,120
	Renault	Clio	57,192		Peugeot	207	67,185
	VW	Polo	38,152		Renault	Clio	53,907
	MINI	MINI	38,018		MINI	MINI	47,661
	Other	58.7%	442,731		Other	52.5%	404,856
	Total		753,872		Total		770,601
	2008				2009
	Vauxhall	Corsa	99,574		Ford	Fiesta	117,296
	Ford	Fiesta	94,989		Vauxhall	Corsa	84,478
	Peugeot	207	53,462		Peugeot	207	48,037
	MINI	MINI	40,736		MINI	MINI	39,866
	VW	Polo	35,710		Toyota	Yaris	30,040
	Other	55.3%	401,535		Other	56.9%	422,436
	Total		726,006		Total		742,153
	2010				2011
	Ford	Fiesta	103,013		Ford	Fiesta	96,112
	Vauxhall	Corsa	77,398		Vauxhall	Corsa	77,751
	VW	Polo	45,517		VW	Polo	45,992
	Peugeot	207	42,185		MINI	MINI	35,845
	MINI	MINI	41,883		Peugeot	207	31,540
	Other	58.1%	429,619		Other	59.2%	416,685
	Total		739,615		Total		703,925
	2012				2013
	Ford	Fiesta	109,265		Ford	Fiesta	121,929
	Vauxhall	Corsa	89,434		Vauxhall	Corsa	84,275
	VW	Polo	41,901		VW	Polo	42,609
	Fiat	500	32,973		Peugeot	208	38,616
	MINI	MINI	32,739		Fiat	500	37,918
	Other	58.8%	437,176		Other	60.0%	487,745
	Total		743,488		Total		813,092
	2014				2015
	Ford	Fiesta	131,254		Ford	Fiesta	133,434
	Vauxhall	Corsa	81,783		Vauxhall	Corsa	92,077
	VW	Polo	48,004		VW	Polo	54,900
	Fiat	500	44,005		MINI	MINI	47,076
	Nissan	Juke	39,263		Fiat	500	41,766
	Other	61.1%	540,583		Other	60.1%	556,988
	Total		884,892		Total		926,241
	2016
	Ford	Fiesta	120,525
	Vauxhall	Corsa	77,110
	VW	Polo	54,448
	MINI	MINI	43,328
	Nissan	Juke	38,803
	Other	61.7%	538,722
	Total		872,936

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UK Top 5 Mini Car Sales : 2004 -2016

Mini car sales are a small segment of the UK market. The leading model is currently the Hyundai i10. It has been so for the past nine years. it has nearly a third of the segment. Because of the wafer thin margins, few brands bother to participate at this level. Mini cars took just under 3% of sales in 2016.

I have to say I don't get how the SMMT - who created this data - catergorises models. The Suzuki Celerio qualifies at 3.6 m in length but the Toyota Aygo at 3.4 m doesn't. The Aygo sells in similar numbers to the i10 too which would change the category massively. So this is what the SMMT serves up but it seems flawed to me. At least is covers most models.

	2004				2005
	Suzuki	Alto	8,642		Suzuki	Alto	7,584
	Chevrolet	Matiz	6,373		Chevrolet	Matiz	4,772
	Vauxhall	Agila	4,944		Vauxhall	Agila	3,808
	Suzuki	Wagon R+	4,342		Suzuki	Wagon R+	3,218
	smart	Coupé	3,625		smart	Coupé	1,448
	Other	22.8%	8,245		Other	23.4%	6,365
	Total		36,171		Total		27,195
	2006				2007
	Chevrolet	Matiz	5,404		Chevrolet	Matiz	7,183
	Hyundai	Amica	4,571		Hyundai	Amica	4,730
	Suzuki	Alto	3,129		smart	Coupé	4,229
	Vauxhall	Agila	3,083		Vauxhall	Agila	2,265
	smart	Coupé	1,434
	Other	24.4%	5,676		Other	14.4%	3,105
	Total		23,297		Total		21,512
	2008				2009
	Hyundai	i10	6,760		Hyundai	i10	24,577
	Chevrolet	Matiz	6,452		Toyota	IQ	7,800
	smart	Coupé	5,733		Vauxhall	Agila	7,447
	Vauxhall	Agila	4,388		Suzuki	Alto	7,362
	Hyundai	Amica	1,846		Chevrolet	Matiz	7,174
	Other	10.4%	2,915		Other	20.2%	13,738
	Total		28,094		Total		68,098
	2010				2011
	Hyundai	i10	23,565		Hyundai	i10	20,325
	smart	Coupé	6,214		Suzuki	Alto	5,598
	Suzuki	Alto	5,755		Vauxhall	Agila	5,106
	Nissan	Pixo	5,031		smart	Coupé	3,959
	Vauxhall	Agila	4,825		Toyota	IQ	2,868
	Other	15.0%	7,998		Other	10.0%	4,205
	Total		53,388		Total		42,061
	2012				2013
	Hyundai	i10	23,135		Hyundai	i10	22,955
	VW	Up!	14,705		VW	Up!	21,143
	Suzuki	Alto	5,416		Suzuki	Alto	13,471
	Vauxhall	Agila	4,656		Škoda	Citigo	7,610
	smart	Coupé	4,481		Vauxhall	Agila	3,988
	Other	19.2%	12,473		Other	13.9%	11,210
	Total		64,866		Total		80,377
	2014				2015
	Hyundai	i10	25,030		Hyundai	i10	23,846
	VW	Up!	22,461		VW	Up!	16,904
	Suzuki	Alto	14,330		Škoda	Citigo	8,533
	Škoda	Citigo	9,848		Suzuki	Celerio	7,901
	Vauxhall	Agila	3,899		Vauxhall	Viva	5,452
	Other	10.3%	8,669		Other	10.9%	7,627
	Total		84,237		Total		70,263
	2016
	Hyundai	i10	23,657
	Vauxhall	Viva	14,297
	VW	Up!	13,245
	Suzuki	Celerio	8,420
	Škoda	Citigo	8,140
	Other	11.6%	8,857
	Total		76,616

Data source: SMMT.

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