Renault In Europe Top 20 Nations: 2007-13

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When it comes to releasing sales data, Renault win my award for being the most open car maker in the world. As to why others are not so forthcoming, I assume they either have a deluded notion that their competitors have much to gain from such a revelation (they already know, duh) or that the public simply have no right to know. The statistics below are openly supplied by Renault. Alright, in Europe statistics are generally available, but not so in many places and with those Renault is equally transparent. May others follow their lead, but don't hold your breath waiting.

In the chart below, the sales figures to the right are in hundreds. So for example, 101.4 equals 101,400. You can see that movement between the top 10 and second 10 has been limited. As Jaroslav kindly reminded me (see comment below), the figures include the Dacia brand, as well as light commercial vehicles.

Russia and Turkey have grown well in this period. Others such as Spain and the UK not so well. I believe in the UK market share was chased with discounting, but when that stopped sales fell away. That shows the folly of such a policy and the market will take a while to accept the higher value situation. Renault have learned from that.

07	08	09	10	11	12	13		13	12	11	10	09	08	07
1	1	1	1	1	1	1	France	547.7	551.3	687.3	743.5	688.0	637.7	626.7
7	5	7	7	3	2	2	Russia	210.1	189.9	154.7	96.5	72.3	108.1	101.2
3	2	2	2	2	3	3	Germany	162.5	170.3	181.2	171.4	240.0	165.5	158.0
8	8	5	5	4	4	4	Turkey	144.7	118.2	140.8	114.1	82.3	73.7	91.7
5	4	3	3	5	5	5	Italy	101.4	96.1	122.9	140.7	124.3	117.9	144.4
2	3	4	4	6	6	6	Spain	98.0	83.4	99.1	124.8	115.2	136.0	199.1
9	9	8	8	7	7	7	Belgium+Lux	77.2	74.8	92.3	84.8	64.7	67.7	63.7
4	6	6	6	8	8	8	UK	77.2	56.2	88.5	133.4	73.4	107.7	149.0
10	10	10	10	9	9	9	Netherlands	45.8	53.3	56.4	45.8	33.4	52.0	44.1
12	12	12	12	11	10	10	Poland	32.2	28.4	30.7	29.8	24.2	26.8	25.8
6	7	9	9	10	11	11	Romania	30.0	28.2	39.6	45.8	51.8	106.6	134.2
13	13	13	14	13	13	12	Austria	27.7	26.9	27.3	24.5	22.4	22.2	19.5
14	15	14	13	12	12	13	Switzerland	22.8	26.9	27.7	25.3	20.5	19.7	18.5
11	11	11	11	14	16	14	Portugal	18.0	14.1	2.9	35.0	24.5	33.5	35.1
18	18	18	15	15	15	15	Sweden	15.7	14.2	19.6	20.4	10.9	11.0	13.6
22	25	24	21	20	18	16	Denmark	14.4	10.5	10.2	6.0	3.6	4.7	6.6
17	16	15	16	16	14	17	Czech Rep	13.1	15.8	18.1	16.3	15.0	16.9	13.8
16	14	19	19	17	17	18	Ukraine	12.4	13.9	13.9	9.1	7.1	20.1	14.4
15	17	17	17	18	19	19	Slovenia	10.9	9.9	11.7	12.4	11.2	13.4	14.7
20	20	22	23	22	20	20	Hungary	6.9	6.6	6.4	5.1	4.8	9.5	10.5

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Import Car Sales In Korea: Europe vs Japan vs USA

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Imports have always had a tough time penetrating a market protected by tariffs. Luxury marques are not too badly affected, but run of the mill brands often struggle or even give up. This situation favours European makes, as they have the most premium brands.

Going back twenty years, only Europe and the USA sold cars in Korea. Up until the year 2000, Europe was asserting itself due mainly to the above mentioned reason. Then the Japanese brands started arriving in 2001. They advanced to over a third of total imports by 2008, but have recently fallen away. Only Lexus and Infiniti carry the premium flag for Japan and that doesn't do enough. Europe have so many marques in that area, they are nudging 80% of all import sales.

		Europe		Japan		USA
	94	1,962	51%			1,903	49%
	95	4,343	63%			2,578	37%
	96	6,135	60%			4,180	40%
	97	3,970	49%			4,166	51%
	98	848	41%			1,227	59%
	99	1,640	68%			761	32%
	00	3,176	72%			1,238	28%
	01	5,404	70%	841	11%	1,502	19%
	02	10,182	63%	2,968	18%	2,969	18%
	03	12,535	64%	3,774	20%	3,172	16%
	04	12,999	56%	6,837	29%	3,509	15%
	05	18,010	58%	9,080	30%	3,811	12%
	06	23,769	59%	12,205	30%	4,556	11%
	07	29,522	55%	17,633	33%	6,235	12%
	08	32,756	53%	21,912	36%	6,980	11%
	09	37,826	62%	17,027	28%	6,140	10%
	10	59,242	66%	23,870	26%	7,450	8%
	11	77,849	74%	18,936	18%	8,252	8%
	12	97,210	74%	23,924	18%	9,724	7%
	13	122,798	79%	22,042	14%	11,657	7%
	Tot	562,176	67%	181,049	22%	92,010	11%
	GT	835,235	Av	41,762

Data source: Thanks to Kaida.

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