Spain August 2025: Toyota distant leader, MG (+40.4%), BYD (+414.6%) surge

MG sales are up 40.4% year-on-year in Spain in August.

It’s another euphoric month for the Spanish new car market, up 17.2% year-on-year in August to 61,315 sales. This is the fourth consecutive month of double-digit growth. The year-to-date tally is now up 14.6% to 769,452. We however still remain 15.8% below the pre-pandemic total of 2019 (913,433). Sales of rechargeable cars (BEV+PHEV) shoot up 161.8% to 14,939 and 24.4% share vs. 5,706 and 10.9% share a year ago in August 2024. Year-to-date deliveries are up 98% to 138,254 and 18% share vs. 10% last year. Private sales are up 16.1% for the month to 35,578, company sales up 22% to 24,019 but rental sales drop -13.7% to 1,718. Through August, all channels are up by double-digits: private sales are up 19.1% to 343,133, company sales up 12% to 259,304 and rentals up 10% to 167,015. Castilla la Mancha (+41.5%) is the most dynamic region followed by Cantabria (+35.9%), Canarias (+28.5%), Castilla Leon (+24.9%) and Comu. Valenciana (+24%). Madrid is up 12%.

The Top 3 carmakers outpace the market. Toyota (+19.7%) is a distant leader at 10.9% share, its highest since January 2024 (11.1%) and holds 8.5% year-to-date. Volkswagen (+33.9%) repeats at #2 ahead of Renault (+24%) back up two spots on last month to #3. Dacia (+5.5%) is up three ranks to #4, overtaking Hyundai (-5.5%), Kia (-7.7%) and Seat (+10.6%) all underperforming. MG surges 40.4% to #8 and 4.4% share, while Mercedes (-8%) and BMW (-5.5%) disappoint and round out the Top 10. BYD (+414.6%) smashes its ranking (#14) and share (3%) records, its previous best being #19 and 2.2% last May. Tesla (+161.4%), Opel (+39.7%), Omoda (+25.9%) and Cupra (+22.3%) also shine below.

Model-wise, the Dacia Sandero (-8.8%) easily leads the charts despite a significant year-on-year drop. It is followed this month by an in form Toyota Corolla (+36.2%) up three spots on July to #2. The Renault Clio (+5.6%) rallies back up 10 ranks to #3 with the Hyundai Tucson (-12.8%) and Seat Ibiza (+12%) closing the Top 5. Below a struggling MG ZS (-13.6%), the Tesla Model 3 surges 516.1% and 65 spots on last month to #7. The VW T-Roc (+48.1%) is pushed up by offers on the outgoing generation to repeat at #8 vs. #15 so far this year. Toyota places four models in the Top 12 with the Yaris Cross (-18.3%), C-HR (+4.4%), RAV4 (+50%) and Yaris (+6.4%) in tow. The MG EHS (+450.3%) is up to a record #14.

Previous month: Spain July 2025: Market up 17.1%, Ebro breaks into Top 20

One year ago: Spain August 2024: Dacia reaches ranking record, Omoda 5 in Top 15

Full August 2025 Top 60 All brands and Top 326 All models below.