Norway September 2011: VW Golf leads, Volvo in shape UPDATED

Volvo XC60

* Now updated with the Top 70 best-selling models: see ‘Read more’ at end of post! *

Many thanks to Alexander for the data!

Good month for car sales in Norway, up 5% at 11,737 registrations and bringing the 2011 year-to-date total to 102,895 units, up 8%. The VW Golf unsurprisingly keeps the lead with 608 sales and 5.3% share, ahead of the new generation Ford Focus at 440 units and the Nissan Qashqai at 430 sales, both at 3.7% share. The VW Passat is down 3 spots to #5 and 2.9%.

Mitsubishi i-MiEV 

Volvo shines and places the V70 at #4 with 372 sales (3.2%, #7 year-to-date), the XC60 at #8 (2.6%, #19 YTD) and the V60 at #9 (2.1%, #13 YTD). The Mitsubishi ASX has the first month off of its Norwegian career at just 107 sales (0.9%) and #35. It is however still #3 year-to-date at 3,264 sales and 3.2%.

Notice the Mitsubishi i-MiEV up to #17 with 165 sales and 1.4% share, the BMW X3 up to #24 at 133 units and the Peugeot 308 up to #25 at 121 sales.

Previous month: see the Norwegian August Top 20 best-selling models here.

Full September 2011 Top 70 Ranking Table below.