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It will be increasingly difficult to hide and play small. Car manufacturers expect a good market growth of 2% in 2016, this forecast will be longer tenable. Market analysts already expect growth above 3%.
In the first quarter, 616,000 light vehicles (personal and commercial) were sold in France. This is an increase of 8.4% if one takes into account passenger cars and commercial vehicles, according to data from the French Automobile Manufacturers (CCFA), released Friday 1 st April.
in March, registrations were up 7.1% and 7.5% for passenger cars only. Builders are at the party: the French, who hold 56% of the French market, but also their foreign counterparts. And “tactical registrations” (sales to dealers, sales to short-term rental companies, etc.) can not explain alone the market growth.
On the French side, the Renault Group that is truly on the offensive. With its new models (Space, Talisman, Qajar and Megane), the Renault brand saw its volumes grow by 7.6% since the beginning of the year. Its sister brand, Dacia, displayed better growth (13.6%), but it had been a year starting 2015 particularly difficult.
Volvo in great shape
PSA, which expects new launches within two years, to a lesser extent advantage of the growing market. If Peugeot remains strong, with growth of 6.3% almost in line with the market, Citroën grew modestly lack of new models, specifically SUV that still sorely lacking in the brand. In fact, it’s DS which leads the way in the new year with a sales growth of 12.5% over three months and 13.4% in the month of March alone.
the high-end brand, although low down on last year’s single largest market in the world, begins to benefit from the restyling of its three models. This is the DS 4 Crossback, a faux SUV, which continues to conquer, while customers are discovering the new front of the DS 3.
Regarding foreign brands, Volkswagen, diesel scandal forces progressing always slower than its peers (3.6%). Audi (22%), thanks to the renewal of many models, save the German group. Opel, for its part, saw with sales up 19%, as well as BMW (20%). If Fiat (12.5%) well off again, finding individual customers, the most in form builder is Volvo with its 26.6% increase in three months. Still, it has passed a little more than 4 000 vehicles in three months.
electrical Bonus
In this landscape, the most striking is continuing inexorably, declining market share of diesel vehicles. With 52.2% of diesel vehicles sold on the first three months of 2016 (against 58.8% over the same period 2015), the sector has seen a new low. And rebalancing engine originally expected at the end of the decade has arrived much earlier than expected.
At the same time, driven by the environmental bonus, the market for electric and hybrid vehicles is progressing. Their market share was 4.6% in the first quarter (of which 1.1% for the only all-electric vehicles), against 3.6% a year ago. This corresponds to 23 000 copies sold (including 6000 all electric), against 270,000 vehicles and 225,000 diesel gasoline vehicles …
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