Croatia April 2011: Opel Astra and VW Polo back in command
Opel Astra
The Croatian car market is up 33% in April at 4,153 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 14,641 units, up 21%. After 4 months of odd, Police-fleet induced Skoda Octavia domination, the ranking is back to its more traditional self this month, with the Opel Astra #1 at 192 sales, just one unit above the VW Polo at 191.
The Hyundai i30 rounds up the podium, up 16 spots on March with a strong 4.5% share, ahead of the VW Golf (4.2%) and Renault Megane (3.6%). The Skoda Octavia drops to 6th but is still #1 year-to-date by far at 6.8% share over the period. The VW Passat breaks into the Top 10 at #8, up 4 spots.
Full Top 20 Ranking Table below.
Croatia April 2011:
| Pos | Model | Apr | % | Mar | 2011 | % | Pos | 2010 |
| 1 | Opel Astra | 192 | 4.6% | 2 | 713 | 4.9% | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | VW Polo | 191 | 4.6% | 5 | 499 | 3.4% | 4 | 2 |
| 3 | Hyundai i30 | 185 | 4.5% | 19 | 394 | 2.7% | 8 | 11 |
| 4 | VW Golf | 174 | 4.2% | 6 | 499 | 3.4% | 5 | 4 |
| 5 | Renault Megane | 151 | 3.6% | 3 | 567 | 3.9% | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | Skoda Octavia | 146 | 3.5% | 1 | 998 | 6.8% | 1 | 6 |
| 7 | Opel Corsa | 143 | 3.4% | 10 | 428 | 2.9% | 7 | 3 |
| 8 | VW Passat | 136 | 3.3% | 14 | 310 | 2.1% | 12 | - |
| 9 | Renault Clio | 119 | 2.9% | 4 | 442 | 3.0% | 6 | 7 |
| 10 | Citroen C4 | 110 | 2.6% | 12 | 291 | 2.0% | 13 | - |
| 11 | Chevrolet Aveo | 106 | 2.6% | 18 | 268 | 1.8% | 15 | 17 |
| 12 | Chevrolet Lacetti | 98 | 2.4% | 8 | 347 | 2.4% | 9 | 14 |
| 13 | Ford Focus | 94 | 2.3% | 20 | 235 | 1.6% | 18 | 12 |
| 14 | Citroen C3 | 77 | 1.9% | 16 | 238 | 1.6% | 17 | - |
| 15 | Dacia Sandero | 67 | 1.6% | 9 | 343 | 2.3% | 10 | 16 |
| 16 | Peugeot 308 | 66 | 1.6% | 7 | 343 | 2.3% | 11 | 8 |
| 17 | Renault Fluence | 65 | 1.6% | 17 | 284 | 1.9% | 14 | - |
| 18 | Dacia Duster | 56 | 1.3% | 11 | 232 | 1.6% | 19 | - |
| 19 | Chevrolet Cruze | 52 | 1.3% | 15 | 223 | 1.5% | 20 | 10 |
| 20 | Kia Cee’d | 49 | 1.2% | 13 | 251 | 1.7% | 16 | 13 |
Source:Â Promocija plus, www.autonet.hr. Many thanks to Petar for the tip!
ancora non ho questro mostro ma penso che sia la macchina piu bella al mondo PRESTO SARAI MIA
Sorry,
the jeeps are included into personal cars program. It says so in the article.
Cheers,
Petar
Hi Matt,
this is an article about the police fleet additions in the first three months of 2011:
http://www.automotorisport.hr/clanak/trziste-automobila-policiji-u-tri-mjeseca-cak-757-novih-vozila
It says that the police bought 757 new cars. Most of them are Skoda Octavia, but there are also Toyota Land Cruiser jeeps.
The number of Skoda Octavia cars might be 697, but the article doesn’t say so explicitly. It just mentions personal cars program as opposed to economic program (jeeps or trucks or vans) and motorbikes.
Cheers,
Petar
http://www.online-zagreb.hr/moj_zagreb/zagreb-hr/taxi-cammeo-usluge-na-zagrebackim-ulicama-od-travnja/
The link says the three new taxi companies in Zagreb have already bought 150 Skoda Octavia cars. It was written in February 2011.
The three taxi companies might be the mother company and its branches. I am not familiar with the other two companies, but from the context they should be branches or children companies.
Cheers,
Petar
“After 4 months of odd, Police-fleet induced Skoda Octavia domination, the ranking is back to its more traditional self this month”
I came to an idea what an additional factor to Skoda Octavia domination might be.
On April 22nd in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, an entirely new taxi company started to operate. All of their cars are Skoda Octavia. Now, the article below says that they started to operate with 76 vehicles (Skoda Octavia).
http://www.dobrevijesti.info/kategorije-vijesti/auto-moto/5796-taxi-cammeo-zagreb-zapoeo-sa-radom
My subjective impression is that there are more of these cars operated by the new taxi company, but anyway it is still a factor regardless of the final number.
Cheers,
Petar
Hi Petar this is great information! I will make sure to include it in the posts.
Thank you very much!
cheers
Matt