Overview of the German Passenger Car market in 2015
- The German market for passenger cars increased 5.6% in 2015, reaching a volume of 3.21 million units. This is the second year of increase after 2014, the year that put a stop to the 2012 and 2013 fall. Slowly but surely the market is getting close to 3.25 million units, the average volume over the car market in the last 20 years. Which is positive but the market is still far from its pre-crisis levels.
- Segment C is still the largest segment in Germany (Golf effect) with 41% of the market, against 20% for segment B. By body type, SUV (19%) are still far behind sedan (64%) even though they have increased by 1 point in 2015, while sedans lost one point.
- The Volkswagen group (39.2% of the market, +4.1%) remains the German market leader, very far ahead of the Daimler group (10,1% of the market, +10,1% increase). The highest growth has been recorded for premium carmakers, Korea car makers and the groups Ford and FCA.
- The 10 best selling cars in 2015 are : VW Golf ( 270 952 units), VW Passat (97 586), VW Polo (69 867), Mercedes Class C (67 549), VW Tiguan (58 978), Skoda Octavia (57 907), Audi A3 (57 858), Opel Astra (56 079), Opel Corsa (52 741) et Audi A4 (52 493). The Volkswagen group ranks 7 cars in the 10.
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