Top 10 car sales September 2011

downwards graphCar sales have taken a tumble in September 2011. Private registrations are 9.3% down on September 2010 but due to strong fleet sales the total number of new cars, 332,476, was just 0.8% down on September last year.

The Ford Fiesta was the best selling model in both September and the year-to-date. Small cars made up 37.8% of total car sales for September, and we are buying greener cars too, the average new car registered between January and September 2011 had CO2 emissions of just 138.5 g/km, down 23.5% from the year 2000 level of 181 g/km.

Year to date sales are down 5% with 1,553,094 new cars sold in 2011 compared with 1,635,659 so far in 2010. So far this year  82,565 cars have been sold than last year.

Best sellers September 2011
Year-to-date 2011
1 Fiesta 15,647 1 Fiesta 77,198
2 Focus 14,754 2 Focus 67,672
3 Corsa 14,339 3 Corsa 60,959
4 Golf 10,628 4 Golf 50,013
5 Astra 10,462 5 Astra 49,042
6 Polo 8,607 6 Insignia 38,386
7 Insignia 7,323 7 Polo 36,655
8 MINI 6,903 8 3 Series 33,650
9 3 Series 6,352 9 Qashqai 30,763
10 Qashqai 6,068 10 MINI 28,097