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FULL ARTICLE
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EDITORIAL
2020 - year zero for zero emission vehicles
"Forget current volumes of battery electric vehicles (BEVs). These figures, failing to create a spark, at just 1.1 per cent mix of total West European passenger car registrations and helped by volume leader and non-EU member state, Norway will soon be regarded as the dress rehearsal performance before the fully charged main show begins in 2020"
Matthias
Schmidt |
Interim Editor
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DATA TABLES AND GRAPHS INCLUDED WITH THIS ISSUE |
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EUROPE
CAR
SALES
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By country
September 2018 v
September 2017
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By country
9-Months 2018 v
9-Months 2017
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WESTERN
EUROPE
CAR
SALES
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By
manufacturer September 2018 v
September 2017
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By
manufacturer 9-Months 2018 v
9-Months 2017
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WORLD
PREMIUM
CAR SALES
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By
manufacturer September 2018 v
September 2017
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By
manufacturer 9-Months 2018 v
9-Months 2017
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WESTERN
EUROPE
RENAULT
| IN DEPTH SALES ANALYSIS |
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In
depth sales analysis supplement
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EUROPE
BY SECTOR |
AID DATA
SUV/Crossovers continue to dominate Western Europe’s car market
Every 3rd new car bought in Europe today is an SUV-Crossover. Consumers’ love-affair with trendy SUV-Crossovers shows no sign of ending any time soon. On the contrary, AID’s exclusive figures reveal that during this year’s first half the sales share of these conspicuous fashion motors soared to yet another new all-time high. By conventional historic measures, the underlying growth and momentum of this sector overshadows anything seen in Europe in recent memory
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Notable
Hybrid inroads in Europe, buoyed in no small measure by incentives
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Weren’t
Volkswagen’s sales supposed to fall?
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EUROPE
HYBRID SALES TREND |
AID DATA
In Europe
Hyundai-Kia has joined Toyota-Lexus’s lone HEV flight path
It’s not imagination. AID compiled data reveals that Britain’s already crowded urban and rural roads now appear packed more than ever with latest design
SUV-Crossovers. So much so in fact that during this year’s first half a forever growing avalanche of trendy
SUV-Crossovers alone was responsible for almost four-in-ten of the new cars hitting UK roads for the first time. This on-going rate of breakneck sales expansion crowned
SUV-Crossovers as the UK’s way and ahead biggest car sector, according to AID compiled car sales data
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Notable
Hybrid inroads in Europe, buoyed in no small measure by incentives
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Weren’t
Volkswagen’s sales supposed to fall?
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UK
CAR SALES |
AID DATA
Record four-in-ten UK new car buyers now opt for
SUV-Crossovers
It’s not imagination. AID compiled data reveals that Britain’s already crowded urban and rural roads now appear packed more than ever with latest design
SUV-Crossovers. So much so in fact that during this year’s first half a forever growing avalanche of trendy
SUV-Crossovers alone was responsible for almost four-in-ten of the new cars hitting UK roads for the first time. This on-going rate of breakneck sales expansion crowned
SUV-Crossovers as the UK’s way and ahead biggest car sector, according to AID compiled car sales data
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UK today’s biggest European market for PHEVs
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August
new car sales in Western Europe didn’t just rise but soar
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EUROPE
HYBRID SALES TREND |
AID DATA
Notable
hybrid inroads
in Europe, buoyed in no small measure by incentives
For Europe’s green movement, which still believed not so long ago that comparatively simple
Prius-type petrol-electric hybrids (HEVs) could save our planet from overheating, there is good news and bad news
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Weren’t
Volkswagen’s sales supposed to fall?
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August
new car sales in Western Europe didn’t just rise but soar
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UK
CAR SALES |
AID DATA
Volkswagen takes UK’s August car sales crown, Ford slips to new all-time low
Anyone familiar with the UK car market will expect Ford to be the undisputed market leader. Moreover, the norm, dating back to time immemorial Ford’s most popular models continue to dominate the UK’s list of best-sellers, right? Wrong. This August marks the third consecutive month that Ford was outsold by the Volkswagen brand
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Weren’t
Volkswagen’s sales supposed to fall?
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August
new car sales in Western Europe didn’t just rise but soar
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EUROPE
CAR
SALES |
AID DATA
August new car sales in Western Europe didn’t just rise but soar
AID compiled figures reveal that new car sales this August went through the roof. That’s the initial cheery message from last month’s car sales results from the vast majority of West European car markets. The latest pole-vault jump this August brings the region’s cumulative car sales gain at the 8-months stage to around 5 per cent
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As bad as it gets for Europe’s
diesel car market?
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July scorcher for West Europe’s summer temperatures and
BEV sales
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DIESEL
SALES | EUROPE
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AID DATA
As bad as it gets for Europe’s
diesel car market?
Latest data, compiled by AID every month, suggests that West Europe’s badly hammered diesel car market, while still weak, is no longer deteriorating at the speed seen during last year
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Diesel cars out of
favour, but have we seen the worst of the plunge?
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Diesel
appears to be undergoing a lull at present
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JAPAN
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H1
CAR MARKET
In Japan the sales share of diesels is rising
Toyota remains the most successful carmaker. Now, that’s not a recent development. Despite bright new upstarts in the same field, such as Korea’s highly respected
Hyundai-Kia, in retrospect Toyota has held this coveted pedestal autoindustry position for
decades
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Signs of life spotted in
Japan’s car market
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Japan
world’s biggest market for home-grown petrol-electric hybrids
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LCV
SALES | EUROPE
Vans outperform both cars and trucks this first half
The market for light commercial vehicles up to 3.50t GVW, typified in broad brush terms by Renault’s Kangoo on one end of the weight scale and Ford’s Transit box van on the other, still stands out as the best performing sector in this year’s West Europe’s vehicle market
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March truck business slackens, pulled down by shorter working month
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Mercedes’ long running Sprinter popularity still revs both sales and profits
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