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France 1983: Renault 5 celebrates 10 years in first place

January 22nd, 1984 Leave a comment Go to comments

Renault 5

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For the second consecutive year the French new car market is above 2 million units at 2.02 this year, down 2%. The Renault 5 celebrates its 10th year in a row atop the models ranking but drops 21% year-on-year at 211,094 sales and 10.5% share.

Renault 9

The year had started with a shock: for the first time in at least 8 years, the Renault 5 was not leading the monthly ranking in January: the Renault 9 confirmed its outstanding ’82 finish by ranking #1 in January at 10.7% share vs. 9.8% for the Renault 5! The 9 finishes the year in 3rd position at 129,273 units and 6.4% share. That is because the hatchback version of the 9, the Renault 11, launched to great success this year: directly at #2 with 8.6% share in April and staying #2 every single month after that to total 135,341 sales and 6.7% share at year-end.

Renault 11

With the Renault 18 down to #4 at 109,097 units and 5.4%, Renault places 4 models in the Top 4 which I’m pretty certain had never happened before in France, for any brand not just Renault for that matter…

In 1983 the Peugeot 205 launched, but only in 4-door and it actually didn’t compete at the highest level this year, peaking at a disappointing 3rd place at 6.5% share in June. It finishes the year at #6 with 103,017 sales and 5.1%, still below the Peugeot 305 (5.2%). Notice the Citroen BX breaking into the Top 10 for its first full year of sales at #7 and 4.5% share.

Previous year: See the 1982 France Top 25 best-selling models here.

Full year 1983 Top 22 and every monthly Top 10 Ranking Tables below.

You can check out every monthly French models Top 10 here:

France 1983:

Pos Model 1983 % 83/82 1982 % Pos
1 Renault 5 211,094 10.5% -21% 265,748 12.9% 1
2 Renault 11 135,341 6.7% new 0 0.0%  -
3 Renault 9 129,273 6.4% -32% 189,525 9.2% 2
4 Renault 18 109,097 5.4% -23% 142,141 6.9% 3
5 Peugeot 305 105,032 5.2% 0% 105,063 5.1% 4
6 Peugeot 205 103,017 5.1% new 0 0.0%  -
7 Citroen BX 89,903 4.5% 297% 22,657 1.1% 24
8 Citroen Visa 66,647 3.3% -31% 96,823 4.7% 5
9 Renault 4 61,592 3.0% -4% 63,864 3.1% 7
10 Ford Escort 52,534 2.6% -9% 57,727 2.8% 9
11 VW Golf 50,485 2.5% -2% 51,503 2.5% 11
12 Peugeot 505 47,475 2.4% -18% 57,681 2.8% 10
13 Ford Fiesta 46,457 2.3% -6% 49,440 2.4% 12
14 Peugeot 104 40,407 2.0% -55% 90,639 4.4% 6
15 Talbot Samba 36,366 1.8% -16% 43,274 2.1% 15
16 Renault 20 35,342 1.7% -25% 47,380 2.3% 13
17 Talbot Horizon 30,291 1.5% -14% 35,020 1.7% 17
18 Opel Corsa 30,287 1.5% n/a n/a n/a n/a
19 Citroen CX 28,274 1.4% -14% 32,984 1.6% 18
20 Citroen GSA 27,254 1.3% -54% 59,744 2.9% 8
21 Citroen 2CV 25,231 1.2% -44% 45,322 2.2% 14
22 Talbot Solara 20,224 1.0% -18% 24,762 1.2% 21

Source: L’Auto Journal

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