Cyprus Car Sales : 2017

Sales were up 5% in 2017, compared to 24% in 2016. This made it the strongest year since 2011 and a sign the bad economic times are behind the island nation. I have to say I don't fully understand the Cyprus car market. In 2001 Peugeot took the top spot but lost it to Honda in 2005, after a year it was Ford, two years later Nissan. Nissan has been top since, although Toyota had 2014 as its own. Wow, all that change. Now Toyota is back!

Nissan lost market share to the tune of 12% and Toyota had a monstrous 33% sales gain. Those two diverse factors caused quite a change as you would imagine. Recall Peugeot was leading in 2004? Well it's 20th now. That kind of movement can happen when sales are not large.

The chart below shows a % symbol that represents market share. The +/- column is increase or decrease based on the market share of 2017 against the 2016 year.

13	14	15	16	17	Brand	2017	%	+/-		2016	%	+/-
2	1	4	3	1	Toyota	1,672	12.7%	33%		1,255	10.1%	20%
1	2	1	1	2	Nissan	1,455	11.1%	-12%		1,658	13.3%	17%
3	6	5	2	3	Ford	1,426	10.9%	7%		1,331	10.7%	43%
4	3	3	5	4	Kia	1,240	9.5%	24%		1,001	8.0%	-4%
5	4	2	4	5	Volkswagen	1,015	7.7%	-19%		1,252	10.0%	14%
6	5	7	7	6	Mercedes	770	5.9%	10%		698	5.6%	20%
8	7	6	6	7	BMW	754	5.7%	7%		704	5.6%	6%
9	13	12	11	8	Hyundai	655	5.0%	41%		464	3.7%	116%
11	10	13	8	9	Honda	550	4.2%	5%		522	4.2%	152%
7	8	8	12	10	Audi	506	3.9%	27%		397	3.2%	-4%
22	12	11	9	11	Land Rover	326	2.5%	-36%		510	4.1%	80%
16	17	14	14	12	Suzuki	322	2.5%	6%		303	2.4%	91%
10	11	10	10	13	Renault	304	2.3%	-39%		501	4.0%	44%
15	9	9	13	14	Volvo	249	1.9%	-22%		318	2.6%	-10%
19	15	17	18	15	Citroën	233	1.8%	64%		142	1.1%	7%
20	18	19	16	16	Mazda	203	1.5%	15%		176	1.4%	47%
13	16	16	15	17	Opel	196	1.5%	9%		179	1.4%	26%
17	24	21	21	18	Škoda	178	1.4%	50%		119	1.0%	25%
26	21	15	17	19	Porsche	145	1.1%	-5%		153	1.2%	-3%
12	14	18	20	20	Peugeot	129	1.0%	0%		129	1.0%	-1%
17	19	20	19	21	Fiat	102	0.8%	-26%		138	1.1%	41%
23	26	22	23	22	MINI	100	0.8%	20%		83	0.7%	8%
29	28	25	25	23	Jaguar	94	0.7%	62%		58	0.5%	23%
25	25	23	22	24	Seat	92	0.7%	2%		90	0.7%	43%
31	29	26	27	25	Lexus	82	0.6%	82%		45	0.4%	0%
27	23	27	28	26	Mitsubishi	66	0.5%	106%		32	0.3%	-22%
28	30	29	26	27	Chrysler	60	0.5%	5%		57	0.5%	104%
37	33	30	29	28	Maserati	50	0.4%	79%		28	0.2%	8%
21	22	24	24	29	Dacia	49	0.4%	-23%		64	0.5%	10%
-	-	-	-	30	Ssangyong	34	0.3%	n/a		-
32	31	31	30	31	smart	20	0.2%	0%		20	0.2%	100%
24	27	28	31	32	Subaru	17	0.1%	31%		13	0.1%	-58%
					Other	24	0.1%			28	0.2%
					Total	13,118		5%		12,468		24%

Data source: Cystat.