Volkswagen was the best-selling car brand in Britain during the first quarter of 2020. The Ford Fiesta remained the top-selling car model. January – March 2020: new passenger vehicle registrations in the UK were down nearly a third in the wake of the Coronavirus crisis. Volkswagen outsold Ford for the first time to become the … Read more
Q1/2020: Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, and Audi were the best-selling car brands in Germany and the VW Golf the top-selling model. January to March 2020: New passenger vehicle registrations in Germany contracted by 20% largely due to the Coronavirus closing both salesrooms and registration offices. Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz remained the top-selling car brands in Germany during the … Read more
Peugeot replaced Renault as the best-selling car brand in France in the first quarter of 2020 while the Peugeot 208 was the top-selling model ahead of the Renault Clio. From the beginning of 2020, the French new car market was weaker but it completely collapsed during March 2020. The PSA Group remained by far the … Read more
In February 2020, new passenger vehicle registrations in Europe contracted by 7%. The Renault Clio outsold the Volkswagen Golf. New car sales in Europe (European Union, EFTA, and the UK) were 7% lower in February 2020 than a year ago and follows on January when the market contracted by an even stronger 7.6%. Car sales … Read more
February 2020: car sales worldwide were lower with the market in China collapsing, sales weak in Europa, Japan, and India, and only the US and Brazilian markets stronger. January & February 2020: new passenger vehicle registrations were lower worldwide with only the US market growing to become again the largest single-country new car market in … Read more
January 2020: New passenger vehicle registrations in Europe contracted by 8% while electrified car sales surged in many markets. The European new car market was smaller in January 2020 with sales significantly down on both January 2019 and December 2019. The contraction was largely predicted due to a change in emission regulations that brought many … Read more
In 2020, the total number of passenger vehicles registered for use on German roads increased to almost 50 million. Volkswagen and Mercedes were the most common cars. On 1 January 2020, the total number of passenger vehicles registered for use on public roads in Germany was 47,715,977 cars – an increase of 1.3%. Volkswagen remained … Read more
Bugatti announced the production of the 250th Chiron in 2020 – the halfway mark for the planned Chiron production run of 500 cars. Production of the Bugatti Chiron hyper sports car has reached its halfway point three years after the first car was delivered to a client. The 250th Chiron – a Chiron Sport “Edition Noire … Read more
DriveElectric predicts that nearly 100,000 electric cars will be sold in the UK in 2020. The forecast is for a 260% increase in battery electric passenger vehicle registrations in Britain. At least 98,500 new battery electric vehicles (BEVs) will be registered in the UK in 2020, according to DriveElectric. If the forecast is correct, new … Read more
BMW delivered its 500,000th electrified vehicle in December 2019 and predicted a quarter of its vehicles sold in Europe in 2021 will be electric. BMW announced that it delivered half a millionth electrified vehicles worldwide by December 2019 – double the number of electric cars built by Volkswagen to date. BMW introduced the electric i3 … Read more
