The top 25 best-selling models in Europe in 2022
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The top 25 best-selling models in Europe in 2022
- The European passenger car market reached 11,287,005 units in 2022, compared to 11,762,568 units in 2021 and 11,951,813 in 2020, corresponding to a decrease of 1.6% in 2022 compared to 2021 and a decrease of 5.5% compared to 2020.
- The Peugeot 208 was the best selling model of the European market in 2022, thus ousting the Volkswagen Golf which had been the best-selling car in Europe since 2007. It should be noted that a Peugeot had already been the European market leader in 2002 and in 2003, it was the Peugeot 206. The Dacia Sandero manages to take second place in the European market in 2022 (it was fifth in 2021), thus supplanting the Volkswagen Golf which is now in third position. It could be explained by the competition of the Volkswagen T-Roc which goes from 6th place to 5th in 2022. The Fiat 500 reaches 4th place (previous and new generations), whereas it was 9th in 2021. The battery electric version (500e) has boosted sales of the model. Remember that the Fiat 500e was the most produced 100% electric car in Europe in 2022. The Opel Corsa manages to reach 6th place when it was 7th in 2021, ahead of the Toyota Yaris which goes from 8th to 7th place.
- Three sharp drops in 2022: the Peugeot 2008 goes from 3rd to 9th place, the Renault Clio goes from 4th to 11th place and the Volkswagen Polo which goes from 13th to 20th place.
- Two strong increases in 2022: the Tesla Model Y goes from 15th to 10th place and the Toyota Yaris Cross which enters the Top 25 in 22nd place.
The top 25 best-selling models in the USA in 2022
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The top 25 best-selling models in the USA in 2022
- The US market for passenger cars (including SUVs and MPVs) and pick-ups (a category that represents one in five sales in the US) reached 13,899,871 units in 2022, compared to 15,079,182 units in 2021 and 16,332,464 in 2020. In this context, the large pick-ups of the big three American carmakers (GM, Ford, Stellantis) still represent the best sales on the US market, as they have for several decades, but the Stellantis group's Ram is moved from second to third place last year.
- The Toyota RAV4 retains its fourth place and remains the best-selling SUV in the USA. The Toyota Camry remains in fifth place and remains the best-selling sedan in the United States. The Tesla Model Y takes sixth place thanks to a strong increase compared to 2021. It is ahead of the fourth major American pickup, namely the GMC Sierra, located in seventh position. In eighth position, there is the Honda CRV (second best-selling SUV in the USA) which supplants the Toyota Tacoma medium-duty pick-up, the Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV, the Toyota Highlander SUV (which is ahead of its American competitor the Ford Explorer) and the Tesla Model 3 which is progressing strongly even though this model is older than the Tesla Model Y. Behind them, the Chevrolet Equinox and Ford Explorer SUVs are neck and neck.
- Among the big drops are the Honda CRV, Honda Civic and Honda Accord (2022 will have been a bad year for Honda), as well as the Nissan Rogue.
Seat will stop the production of cars from 2030
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Seat will stop the production of cars from 2030
- Founded in 1950, the Spanish car brand Seat first assembled Fiat brand cars under license, for the domestic Spanish market and then for the domestic market and export. In 1986, the Seat brand was bought by Volkswagen, which made it its Spanish subsidiary. From this date, the Seat brand is integrated into the Volkswagen group alongside the Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and Porsche brands. It is then in terms of price at the level of the Czech firm Skoda. The platforms and engines were gradually taken over from the group's other brands.
- Its production volume in Martorell (Spain) was 300,000 to 400,000 units per year between 2000 and 2016, then the expansion of the Seat range to SUVs made it possible to increase this production volume to 500,000 units in 2018, then 575,000 in 2019, a year that marks a peak in production.
- It was at this time that the management of Volkswagen decided to create the Cupra brand (ex-sports subsidiary of Seat) which made it possible to market sportier, more expensive cars, but also to offer plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and battery electric cars (BEV) under this new brand.
- The Cupra brand achieved 125,000 sales in 2022 and Volkswagen management intends to quadruple this volume of sales by 2030, part of which will be produced at the Martorell site. As a result of this strategy, the Seat brand is being abandoned (no new models planned until 2030) and sales are collapsing (250,000 in 2022). Very recently, the management of Volkswagen has just announced that the Seat firm will stop producing cars from 2030.
The top 25 best-selling models in China in 2022
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The top 25 best-selling models in China in 2022
- The Chinese passenger car market reached 23,563,287 units in 2022, compared to 21,481,537 units in 2021 and 20,177,731 in 2020. This market has resumed its growth after the bad years of 2018 and 2019. Even if the Volkswagen group still remains the sales leader on the Chinese market in 2022, it is losing market share each year to Chinese carmakers (including BYD) its share having fallen to 13% in 2022 against 14% in 2021, 17% in 2020 and 19% in 2019.
- The best-selling model on the Chinese market in 2022 remains as in 2021 the Wuling Hongguang Mini EV which is a small battery electric A-segment car and which has managed to revive a marginal A-segment in China, a market mainly of C and D segments cars.
- The battery electric Tesla Model Y takes second place in 2022, resulting in two BEVs leading sales in China last year, which doesn't seem surprising given that BEVs accounted for more than 20% of the market in 2022.
- The BYD Song DM takes third place, due to strong growth over the previous year. This model is one of the plug-in hybrid models marketed by the Chinese brand BYD. Classic models such as the Volkswagen Lavida are losing ground, as demand is shifting more and more to battery electric or plug-in hybrid models and less and less to thermal models. And Chinese carmakers have a advantage on foreign carmakers in terms of battery electric motorization (except perhaps in the case of Tesla).
The global light vehicle market (PC+LUV) increased by 9.8% in the first quarter of 2023
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The global light vehicle market (PC+LUV) increased by 9.8% in the first quarter of 2023
- Partly thanks to the restocking of new vehicles carried out in 2022 (production surplus of 3.388 million units last year), global sales of new vehicles rose sharply in the first quarter of 2023, after a year 2022 that had seen global vehicle sales fall by 2%, achieving the lowest sales volume since 2011.
- According to Inovev's calculations, the market of new light vehicles (PC+LUV) increased by 9.8% in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the first quarter of 2022. Sales of passenger cars (PC) increased by 10,8% over this period and light utility vehicles (LUV) by 5.8%.
- If this growth rate is maintained until the end of the year, Inovev estimates that the global automotive market (PC+LUV) could reach a volume of 80 million units in 2023, compared to 73 million in 2022, 74, 5 million in 2021, 73.5 million in 2020 and 80 million in 2019. We would thus find the sales volume of 2019. The sales volume of 2019 was not the largest of the decade because the years 2016-2017-2018 saw higher sales volumes, in the order of 83 / 85 million units per year . We are therefore still far from the pre-crisis figures. But we could get closer.
- But it should be noted that it is not certain that this rhythm will be maintained between now and the end of the year, because many sales were made in the first quarter of 2023 according to orders placed in 2022.
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