Car 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 |
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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 |