Uruguay January 2023: Chevrolet and Suzuki on top again, Citroen (+571.4%) amazes in market up 16.4%

Citroen sales are up 7-fold year-on-year in Uruguay.

The Uruguayan new light vehicle market is up 16.4% year-on-year in January to a round 3,800 sales. Chevrolet (+29.1%) beats the market to reach a very strong 18.6% share vs. 14.1% over the Full Year 2022 when it also lead. Suzuki (+52.8%) does even better to 14.5% of the market vs. 9.7% but Volkswagen (+14.4%) can’t keep up, albeit managing a similar market share as in FY2022 at 14.4%. Renault (-21.3%) is in trouble at #4 whereas Citroen (+571.4%) is up 7-fold on its year-ago volume and lodges by far the largest year-on-year gain in the Top 10. Peugeot (+40.2%) also shines just below. There are 8 Chinese carmakers in the Top 20, led by GWM (+347.4%) up spectacularly as are Jetour (+146.9%), JAC (+610%), BYD (+165.4%), Changan (+200%), Victory (+230.8%) and Karry (+153.3%).

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Full January 2023 Top 47 all brands ranking below.