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Europe 2000: VW Golf and Fiat Punto in the lead

January 24th, 2001 Leave a comment Go to comments

VW Golf

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In 2000 the VW Golf manages to keep the title of Europe’s best-selling car for the 17th year in the last 18 without too much difficulty. It delivers 690,400 sales for a 4.7% market share, down 2% on 1999. The Opel Astra threat has gone away, down 16% to 575,400 sales in 3rd place.

Fiat Punto

The Fiat Punto, helped by a dynamic facelift late last year, is back on the podium at #2 after fading out to 6th in 1999. It is up 30% this year with 583,900 sales. Continuing to gear up 18 months after its launch, the Peugeot 206 reaches heights unknown to the brand since the eighties and the Peugeot 205. It is 4th, up 3 spots and 27% with 556,600 units and passes another recent model, the Ford Focus, still #5 but up 11% at 525,000 units.

BMW 3 Series

The Renault Megane and Scenic sales are now split and the Scenic is very solid in 9th position with 337,400 sales, up 13%. The BMW 3 Series breaks into the European Year-end Top 10 for the first time with 330,400 sales. Note a different source places the 3 Series at #9, the Megane at #10 and the Scenic at #11. Further along the ranking, notice the Opel Zafira breaking into the Top 20 at #19 with 200,236 sales, up 108%, the Toyota Yaris up 17 ranks to #22 and the Citroen Xsara Picasso landing directly at #31.

Previous year: Europe 1999: Opel Astra a serious threat to the VW Golf

Next year: Europe 2001: VW Golf, Peugeot 206 and Ford Focus on podium

Full Year 2000 Top 50 Ranking Table and all model sales below.

You can check out the sales of every model sold in Europe in 2000 here: Europe 2000 All models

Europe Full Year 2000:

Pos Model 2000 00/99 1999 Pos
1 VW Golf 690,400 -2% 703,604 1
2 Fiat Punto 583,900 30% 448,789 6
3 Opel Astra 575,400 -16% 683,870 2
4 Peugeot 206 556,600 27% 439,060 7
5 Ford Focus 525,000 11% 472,182 4
6 Renault Clio 481,200 -1% 487,004 3
7 Opel Corsa 420,900 -8% 455,724 5
8 VW Polo 367,700 4% 355,071 8
9 Renault Scenic 337,400 13% 298,000 10
10 BMW 3 Series 330,400 n/a n/a  -

Source: JATO

Another source and slightly different numbers:

Europe Full Year 2000:

Pos Model 2000 /99 1999 Pos
1 VW Golf 669,540 -5% 707,077 1
2 Fiat Punto 564,219 27% 445,032 6
3 Opel Astra 538,013 -21% 680,464 2
4 Peugeot 206 535,697 21% 441,451 7
5 Ford Focus 499,099 6% 470,408 4
6 Renault Clio 469,193 -4% 489,532 3
7 Opel Corsa 406,179 -11% 455,418 5
8 VW Polo 348,974 -2% 354,530 8
9 BMW 3 Series 326,177 20% 272,172 14
10 Renault Megane 318,455 -3% 329,361 9
11 Renault Scenic 301,930 19% 254,677 16
12 VW Passat 274,586 -15% 324,846 10
13 Ford Fiesta 271,715 -13% 311,182 11
14 Citroen Saxo 241,882 0% 241,575 17
15 Peugeot 306 238,008 -13% 273,741 13
16 Opel Vectra 224,510 -23% 292,925 12
17 Citroen Xsara 218,847 -18% 265,989 15
18 Peugeot 406 215,170 -4% 223,854 19
19 Opel Zafira 200,236 108% 96,121 45
20 Ford Mondeo 189,671 -18% 231,522 18
21 Mercedes C Class 182,156 13% 161,100 27
22 Toyota Yaris 179,873 62% 111,102 39
23 Audi A4 170,965 -13% 195,485 21
24 Seat Ibiza 170,762 2% 166,894 25
25 Mercedes A Class 165,048 -7% 177,657 23
26 Renault Laguna 164,980 -15% 194,356 22
27 Renault Twingo 164,276 -16% 195,833 20
28 Fiat Seicento 161,368 -7% 172,730 24
29 Mercedes E Class 154,127 0% 153,569 29
30 Ford Ka 147,872 -9% 163,369 26
31 Citroen Xsara Picasso 135,778 new 0  -
32 Fiat Bravo/a 128,408 -20% 159,600 28
33 Nissan Micra 128,148 -12% 145,658 30
34 BMW 5 Series 121,022 -11% 135,947 32
35 Audi A3 117,300 -10% 130,889 33
36 Toyota Corolla 114,635 -18% 138,960 31
37 Audi A6 112,171 -11% 125,631 34
38 Nissan Almera 111,946 18% 95,240 46
39 Lancia Y 111,211 2% 109,482 41
40 Toyota Avensis 102,971 -6% 109,503 40
41 Daewoo Matiz 100,603 15% 87,721 n/a
42 Skoda Octavia 99,887 0% 100,114 43
43 Peugeot 106 99,726 -20% 124,814 35
44 MCC Smart 97,634 63% 60,074 n/a
45 Alfa Romeo 156 94,547 -4% 98,201 44
46 Nissan Primera 94,284 -8% 102,640 42
47 VW Bora 91,968 -2% 93,824 47
48 Fiat Panda 90,199 -27% 123,474 36
49 VW Lupo 88,636 -22% 114,262 38
50 Citroen Xantia 86,182 -29% 121,449 37

Source: Interautonews.

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