The blooming European SUV market.
- The SUV market has grown significantly in recent years, particularly in Europe, where it now represents 15% of passenger car sales whereas it only represented 12.6% in 2011 and 10.3% in 2010 (1.9 million units in 2012 ).
- Carmaker’s product range has also increased significantly , in three distinctive categories, small SUVs ( segment B ), compact SUVs ( segment C ) and large SUVs (D and E segments ).
- European carmakers of premium cars are particularly active in this market, their sales are rising rapidly following an increasing models supply, but Japanese and Korean SUV manufactures are still predominant in Europe.
- Thus, Nissan is the leading seller of SUVs in Europe (ahead of BMW, VW and Dacia) thanks to its Juke and Qashqai models.
- In 2013, 2014 and 2015 18 new SUV launches of different brands (listed below) are scheduled, not to mention luxury brands such as Bentley and Maserati who are considering launching their own SUV range.
- Over the past three months have emerged, the Renault Captur and Peugeot 2008in small segment of SUVs and the Range Rover Sport in the segment of large SUVs, Toyota's RAV4 and Suzuki's SX4 in the segment SUV category.
- These 18 new models should represent a sales volume of 750,000 units a full year.
Data source: File #10 - Start of Production (SOP) of new and modified vehicles in Europe
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