The Renault group global sales (PC+LUV) drop by 3.4% in 2019
- The Renault group (Renault, Dacia, Lada, Samsung, Alpine, Jinbei, Huasongglobal sales drop by 3.4% in 2019, with a volume of 3,753,723 units, against 3,884,273 in 2018, splited into:
• 2,357,093 units under the Renault brand (-6.9%),
• 736,570 units under the Dacia brand (+ 5.1%),
• 414,243 units under the Lada brand (+ 3.6%),
• 161,901 units under the Jinbei-Huasong brands (-2.2%),
• 79,081 units under the Samsung brand (-6.9%),
• 4,835 units under the Alpine brand (+ 130.9%).
- The Dacia and Lada brands took advantage of their new models (Duster, Vesta, X-Ray) while the Renault brand suffered from the transition between old and new Clio, this model representing the major part of the brand's sales.
- The Samsung brand remains in a fragile position, representing half the sales of the Chinese brands Jinbei-Huasong. This case will need to be resolved in the next few years, as the Korean plant has significant unused capacity.
- Totally, passenger cars represented 3,129,434 units in 2019 (-4.1%) and light utility vehicles 624,289 units (+ 0.7%). Within the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, the Renault group maintained its positions in a global automobile market at -4.2%, while the Nissan group saw its sales drop by 8.4% to 5.18 million units (compared to 5.65 million in 2018). As a result, Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi lost its first world place in 2019, to the benefit of the Volkswagen and Toyota groups which have supplanted it. According to Inovev estimates, the Volkswagen group sold 10.7 million passenger cars and light utility vehicles, the Toyota group 10.5 million and Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi 10.2 million.
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