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Ireland January 2013: BMW 5-Series, Skoda Rapid & Opel Mokka off to a great start

February 8th, 2013 Leave a comment Go to comments

BMW 5 Series

* NOW UPDATED with the Top 35 All-brands ranking! Notice Dacia landing directly at #23 ahead of Fiat *

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January is the most important month of the year for new car sales in Ireland as it is traditionally the strongest. And if the shape of this month’s sales is any indication for the rest of 2013, we are in for a struggle: the Irish new car market is down a horrid 19% year-on-year in January to 17,293 registrations. This is to be compared to just 316 in December, showing how weighted towards the end of the year the market is, due to the fact that registration plates indicates the year of issuance and stays with the car forever. The January models podium is identical to that of 2012: the Ford Focus is #1 with 4.8% share, followed by the VW Golf at 4.6% and the Nissan Qashqai at 3.8%.

Skoda Rapid

The Ford Fiesta is up 4 spots compared to its FY2012 ranking to #4 with 623 sales and 3.6%, while the BMW 5 Series is up 6 to #9 and the Opel Astra up 7 to #10. The Hyundai ix35 is up 4 to #12, the Kia Sportage up 7 to #13, BMW 3 Series up a huge 17 ranks to #15 and the Peugeot 208 has already sold almost 3 times as many units in January alone than in the whole of 2012 when it was launched, ranking #17 at 299 sales and 1.7%.

Opel Mokka

Further down, notice the Hyundai Santa Fe up to #28 vs. #66 in FY2012, the Hyundai i20 up to #33 vs. #51, the Skoda Rapid up to an excellent #34 at 139 units and 0.8%, Seat Leon up to #39 vs. #65, Opel Mokka up to #41 for its 2nd month in market with 121 sales and 0,7% and the Seat Toledo landing at a shiny 50th place with 101 units and 0.6%.

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Full January 2013 Top 50 models and Top 35 All-brands Ranking Tables below.

Ireland January 2013 – models:

Pos Model Jan % 2012 % Pos
1 Ford Focus 825 4.8% 3,748 4.7% 1
2 VW Golf 789 4.6% 3,397 4.3% 2
3 Nissan Qashqai 659 3.8% 3,298 4.1% 3
4 Ford Fiesta 623 3.6% 2,152 2.7% 8
5 Skoda Octavia 517 3.0% 2,396 3.0% 6
6 Toyota Avensis 499 2.9% 2,938 3.7% 4
7 Toyota Auris 492 2.8% 1,914 2.4% 9
8 VW Passat 476 2.8% 2,372 3.0% 7
9 BMW 5-Series 436 2.5% 1,658 2.1% 15
10 Opel Astra 419 2.4% 1,568 2.0% 17
11 Toyota Yaris 408 2.4% 2,438 3.1% 5
12 Hyundai ix35 393 2.3% 1,579 2.0% 16
13 Kia Sportage 338 2.0% 1,263 1.6% 20
14 VW Polo 322 1.9% 1,738 2.2% 12
15 BMW 3-Series 317 1.8% 843 1.1% 32
16 Toyota Corolla 308 1.8% 1,809 2.3% 11
17 Peugeot 208 299 1.7% 106 0.1% 107
18 Hyundai i40 271 1.6% 1,307 1.6% 19
19 Hyundai i30 268 1.5% 762 1.0% 33
20 Audi A6 253 1.5% 987 1.2% 27
21 Opel Insignia 249 1.4% 1,704 2.1% 13
22 Nissan Micra 245 1.4% 1,181 1.5% 23
23 Audi A4 231 1.3% 994 1.3% 26
24 Renault Fluence 223 1.3% 1,889 2.4% 10
25 VW Jetta 212 1.2% 864 1.1% 30
26 Opel Corsa 204 1.2% 1,327 1.7% 18
27 Nissan Juke 202 1.2% 1,036 1.3% 25
28 Hyundai Santa Fe 202 1.2% 257 0.3% 66
29 Renault Megane 201 1.2% 1,685 2.1% 14
30 Skoda Superb 201 1.2% 1,052 1.3% 24
31 Seat Ibiza 177 1.0% 847 1.1% 31
32 Kia Cee’d 166 1.0% 684 0.9% 34
33 Hyundai i20 159 0.9% 344 0.4% 51
34 Skoda Rapid 139 0.8% 23 0.0% 169
35 Hyundai ix20 129 0.7% 607 0.8% 38
36 Mercedes E Class 128 0.7% 956 1.2% 28
37 Audi A3 125 0.7% 412 0.5% 47
38 Skoda Fabia 122 0.7% 865 1.1% 29
39 Seat Leon 122 0.7% 259 0.3% 65
40 Skoda Yeti 121 0.7% 545 0.7% 43
41 Opel Mokka 121 0.7% 6 0.0% 210
42 Honda Civic 120 0.7% 577 0.7% 41
43 Mazda3 119 0.7% 600 0.8% 39
44 Peugeot 508 118 0.7% 634 0.8% 36
45 Renault Clio 109 0.6% 1,224 1.5% 22
46 Ford C-Max 109 0.6% 620 0.8% 37
47 Peugeot 308 107 0.6% 446 0.6% 44
48 Ford Mondeo 106 0.6% 1,233 1.6% 21
49 Mercedes C Class 106 0.6% 577 0.7% 40
50 Seat Toledo 101 0.6% 15 0.0% 181

Ireland January 2013 – brands:

Pos Brand Jan % 2012 % Pos
1 Volkswagen 2,137 12.4% 10,073 12.7% 1
2 Toyota 1,855 10.7% 9,998 12.6% 2
3 Ford 1,839 10.6% 8,592 10.8% 3
4 Hyundai 1,523 8.8% 5,242 6.6% 6
5 Nissan 1,208 7.0% 6,074 7.6% 4
6 Skoda 1,201 6.9% 5,084 6.4% 8
7 Opel 1,049 6.1% 5,103 6.4% 7
8 Audi 941 5.4% 3,685 4.6% 9
9 BMW 925 5.3% 3,393 4.3% 10
10 Kia 723 4.2% 3,133 3.9% 11
11 Peugeot 635 3.7% 2,241 2.8% 12
12 Renault 592 3.4% 5,260 6.6% 5
13 Seat 532 3.1% 1,362 1.7% 15
14 Mazda 353 2.0% 1,436 1.8% 14
15 Mercedes 339 2.0% 1,868 2.3% 13
16 Citroen 260 1.5% 1,172 1.5% 16
17 Honda 243 1.4% 1,105 1.4% 18
18 Volvo 199 1.2% 1,157 1.5% 17
19 Suzuki 135 0.8% 633 0.8% 20
20 Land Rover 117 0.7% 500 0.6% 21
21 Mini 111 0.6% 443 0.6% 22
22 Mitsubishi 108 0.6% 363 0.5% 23
23 Dacia 89 0.5% 0 0.0%  -
24 Fiat 64 0.4% 666 0.8% 19
25 Lexus 41 0.2% 267 0.3% 24
26 Jaguar 36 0.2% 206 0.3% 25
27 Subaru 17 0.1% 143 0.2% 26
28 Porsche 8 0.0% 17 0.0% 30
29 Perodua 4 0.0% 9 0.0% 32
30 SsangYong 4 0.0% 0 0.0%  -
31 Chevrolet 2 0.0% 28 0.0% 29
32 Saab 1 0.0% 9 0.0% 31
33 Daihatsu 1 0.0% 1 0.0% 33
34 Maserati 1 0.0% 0 0.0%  -

Source: www.beepbeep.ie 

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  1. erik
    February 2nd, 2013 at 12:19 | #1
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    this year any car bought between january and june 2013 will be stamped with “131″ on the reg and any car bought between july and december will be stamped with “132″

  2. AndyT
    February 2nd, 2013 at 06:12 | #2
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    If you click on the “beepbeep” link, it seem Alfa & Chrysler sold no cars at all in the important January month of sales. Fiat also sold only 64 cars. Not good for the Fiat group.

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