Netherlands Top 50 Models: 2025 (Jan-Oct)

Passenger car registrations were up 8% in October but down 1% YTD. In October, hybrid cars (PHEV) reached nearly 47% share and electric cars (BEV) 40%.

A change in bijtelling, or a company car tax, is helping push up PHEV and BEV sales leading up to January 2026 when the change takes place.

Government incentives coming and going affect the car industry. It often ends up creating spikes and slumps in registrations.

Colour coding shows that European models are popular but not as much as many other European markets.

Kia is a surprising top brand in the Netherlands. It has three of the top four models. I do prefer them to Hyundai's and they do here too.

Korean models have nine of the Top 50 and Japan only six which is unusual outside of Korea. The US does reasonably well with five models. 

Data source: Bovag.

Photo source: Kia (EV3) and Tesla (Model Y) Nederland.