Europe Full Year 2011: Top 40 models ranking now available!
Dacia Duster
* See the Top 40 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Tuga *
There is now a Top 318 All-models ranking available! Click here to see
You can see my original Europe Full Year 2011 Top 10 post here.
Thanks to Tuga I can now share with you a Top 40 models ranking for the entire European market. Unlike my last Full Year 2011 update which was based on JATO figures, this ranking was sourced on Autonews and include more countries, which means the top of the ranking is actually quite different from the one I published last month.
If the VW Golf stays leader by far with 493,855 sales (-2%), the VW Polo drops to #3 behind the Ford Fiesta at 371,454 units vs. 372,977. The Opel Corsa is still #4, but is now followed by the Opel Astra, Ford Focus and Renault Clio. The Renault Megane is above the Peugeot 207 and the VW Passat is still the big winner at #10, up 10 spots and 43% on 2010.
Mercedes C-Class
But where it gets fascinating is below the Top 10 as these figures are very rare to come across… Down 17% on last year the Fiat Punto loses its spot in the Top 10 to #11, followed closely by the Nissan Qashqai at #12 with 216,970 sales. The Skoda Octavia is up 2 spots to #14, the Mercedes C-Class up 17% and 9 ranks to #16, passing its archenemy the BMW 3 Series, while the Skoda Fabia and Seat Ibiza are both up 5 spots to #18 and #19 respectively.
BMW 5 Series
Outside the Top 20, great performers include the BMW 5 Series up 30% and 12 ranks to #24, the Dacia Duster landing directly at #26 with 141,961 units, the Opel Meriva up 22% and 8 spots to #32, the Ford C-Max up to #33, VW Touran up 12 ranks to #34, Citroen C4 and Nissan Juke up to #38 and #39.
Most recent Europe data: January 2012: Skoda Octavia in Top 10 for the first time
Previous year: Europe 2011 All-models Top 371 ranking (source JATO)
Previous year (take 2): Europe 2011 Top 50 ranking (source Autonews)
Full Year 2011 Top 40 Ranking Table below.
Europe Full Year 2011:
| Pos | Model | 2011 | /10 | 2010 | Pos |
| 1 | VW Golf | 493,855 | -2% | 502,307 | 1 |
| 2 | Ford Fiesta | 372,977 | -12% | 425,595 | 2 |
| 3 | VW Polo | 371,454 | 2% | 364,439 | 3 |
| 4 | Opel Corsa | 327,717 | -2% | 333,622 | 5 |
| 5 | Opel Astra | 327,458 | 7% | 306,152 | 7 |
| 6 | Ford Focus | 308,747 | 6% | 292,348 | 8 |
| 7 | Renault Clio | 304,106 | -13% | 348,921 | 4 |
| 8 | Renault Megane | 251,487 | -8% | 272,612 | 9 |
| 9 | Peugeot 207 | 245,649 | -21% | 310,827 | 6 |
| 10 | VW Passat | 245,110 | 43% | 170,876 | 20 |
| 11 | Fiat Punto | 220,343 | -17% | 266,553 | 10 |
| 12 | Nissan Qashqai | 216,970 | 0% | 215,982 | 13 |
| 13 | Fiat Panda | 189,527 | -20% | 236,323 | 11 |
| 14 | Skoda Octavia | 186,440 | 0% | 186,994 | 16 |
| 15 | Citroen C3 | 181,868 | -21% | 230,140 | 12 |
| 16 | Mercedes C Class | 178,345 | 17% | 151,848 | 25 |
| 17 | BMW 3 Series | 166,860 | -11% | 187,623 | 14 |
| 18 | Skoda Fabia | 165,259 | 2% | 162,207 | 23 |
| 19 | Seat Ibiza | 162,631 | 3% | 157,610 | 24 |
| 20 | Audi A4 | 162,085 | -6% | 173,069 | 19 |
| 21 | Renault Scenic | 161,379 | -14% | 187,012 | 15 |
| 22 | Fiat 500 | 156,301 | -6% | 165,454 | 21 |
| 23 | Peugeot 308 | 155,227 | -15% | 181,976 | 17 |
| 24 | BMW 5 Series | 143,804 | 30% | 110,669 | 36 |
| 25 | Audi A3 | 143,382 | -20% | 178,860 | 18 |
| 26 | Dacia Duster | 141,961 | new | n/a | n/a |
| 27 | Toyota Yaris | 141,327 | -14% | 165,174 | 22 |
| 28 | Opel Insignia | 138,755 | 0% | 139,012 | 30 |
| 29 | BMW 1 Series | 135,087 | -9% | 147,863 | 27 |
| 30 | Renault Twingo | 134,061 | -11% | 150,237 | 26 |
| 31 | Mercedes E Class | 130,290 | -8% | 142,003 | 28 |
| 32 | Opel Meriva | 127,439 | 22% | 104,323 | 40 |
| 33 | Ford C-Max | 127,092 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 34 | VW Touran | 118,867 | 25% | 94,927 | 46 |
| 35 | VW Tiguan | 118,091 | 8% | 109,722 | 37 |
| 36 | Mini | 116,666 | -10% | 130,115 | 31 |
| 37 | Peugeot 3008 | 115,896 | -2% | 117,819 | 34 |
| 38 | Citroen C4 | 113,379 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 39 | Nissan Juke | 106,461 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 40 | Citroen C4 Picasso | 104,628 | -13% | 120,047 | 33 |
| 41 | Hyundai i30 | 101,328 | -14% | 117,675 | 35 |
Source: Autonews. Many thanks to Tuga for sharing the data!
Note: you will notice sales figures are different from the previous Top 10 I uploaded. This is because the previous Europe Full Year 2011 post was based on JATO figures which include the 27 European Union countries minus Bulgaria, Romania and Malta, plus Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. This Top 50 is figures from Automotive News which cover more European countries but don’t specify which ones. So probably including Bulgaria, Romania and Malta.
Top 316 presented by Lancia Lover: http://www.autoweek.nl/forum/read.php?1,2449761,4858071#msg-4858071
@matgasnier
I saw I saw but just don’t see overtaking numbers seen in romania even polo is before … anyway I trust your numbers, I use your number as a source!=]
I will ask Tuga actually.
cheers
Matt
Sales by marque in Ireland from January 2012: source: http://www.focoches.es
1.Toyota 3.430
2.Ford 2.683
3.VW 2.518
4.Renault 1.503
5.Nissan 1.439
6.Hyundai 1.266
7.Skoda 1.265
8.Opel 1.253
9.BMW 853
10.Audi 765
11.Kia 683
12.Peugeot 596
13.Mercedes 524
14.Mazda 467
15.Citroën 340
16.Volvo 303
17.SEAT 234
18.Honda 211
19.Suzuki 160
20.Land Rover 133
21.MINI 123
22.Mitsubishi 95
23.Fiat 84
24.Lexus 84
25.Jaguar 66
26.Subaru 31
27.Alfa Romeo 17
28.Chrysler 17
29.Chevrolet 9
30.Porsche 2
31.Saab 1
32.Perodua 0
33.Proton 0
34.Jeep 0
35.Daihatsu 0
How is it possible that the polo was second with 8000 units of advantage on fiesta 3 marginal markets and with the fiesta earns 9000 drive to polo and beyond? According to me there is an error!
Hi Enrik – may I suggest visiting the Bulgarian page of my blog where you will see that the Ford Fiesta is best-seller?
That might help explain it a little bit…
cheers
Matt
In 2011, a lot of models took a beating.
And for many of them, 2012 seems to start even worse