Among the 10 best-selling cars in Europe, 9 are made in Europe
- Europe is the region with the highest number of mass production carmaker, such as Volkswagen, Renault-Nissan, PSA, FCA, BMW and Daimler (unlike China which has the most small and mid-sized carmakers).
- The Volkswagen group thus remained the world's leading carmaker between 2016 and 2019, before falling to second place in 2020, the Renault-Nissan group is now the third largest carmaker in the world and the PSA-FCA (Stellantis) merger is underway to create the world's fourth largest carmaker. As for BMW and Daimler, they are the first premium carmaker in the world.
- On the European market, these six carmakers represent three quarters of sales in 2020, as in 2019. But considering that Japanese (Toyota, Honda), Korean (Hyundai, Kia), Chinese (Volvo) and American (Ford) carmakers also produce in Europe for local demand, imports from outside Europe represent only 15% of sales.
- This proportion can be compared to what we can see in Asian car-producing countries, the import rate being even lower in Korea (it is 12%), in Japan (6%) and in China (5%).
- In the United States, this proportion is 40%, but if we consider the NAFTA region (Canada-Mexico-USA), we only obtain 15% of imports from outside, i.e. a figure equivalent to Europe.
- Among the ten best-selling cars in Europe in 2020, only one is produced largely outside the European Union: the Renault Clio (second sale) which comes in ¾ from Turkey, and ¼ from Slovenia.
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