Renault Clio overtakes VW Golf to become Europe’s best-selling car

The Renault Clio overtook the Volkswagen Golf to become Europe’s finest-marketing car in February 2020, in accordance to the most current European car registration figures for the thirty day period.

New versions of both of those these products have just lately introduced, but the most current Clio has been accessible to buy more time than the new Golf. As a consequence, some 24,914 Mk5 Clios ended up registered in the course of February, while the Mk8 Golf was narrowly behind with 24,735.

Both nameplates saw an overall reduction in registrations very last thirty day period, in accordance to details from JATO Dynamics. There was a 4 for every cent year-on-year reduction in Clio registrations, while the Golf was down 21 for every cent year-on-year.

Other noteworthy figures in the every month figures contain a10 for every cent boost in gross sales for the Fiat Panda, bringing it up to fifth area, and the absence of any SUVs from the prime 10 rating.

Overall, it was an additional thirty day period of decline for the European car current market. Registrations fell 7 for every cent year-on-year, from one,143,852 in February 2019 to one,063,264 in February 2020.

Electric car registrations doubled in France and Germany – these vehicles now make up fourteen for every cent and eleven for every cent respectively of the countries’ every month car registration figures. The British isles has an EV penetration amount of thirteen for every cent – the next-maximum of the five largest European car markets – but even France’s figure pales in comparison to Norway, where seventy five for every cent of all new cars bought are electric powered.

Felipe Munoz, global analyst at JATO Dynamics, commented: “The predicament is quickly deteriorating in Europe owing to sophisticated regulation, absence of accessible homologated cars, and growing tension on the financial state. All of these factors are having a harmful effects on purchaser self confidence.”

JATO Dynamics extra that the effects of the coronavirus pandemic has however to hit the European car current market.

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