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Last year’s segment expansion was strongest in some of the region’s archetypal 4WD markets.
Expressed in segment share rather than outright annual sales numbers, last year’s sector growth was most vigorous
in Norway.
32.4%
Sales share of 4WD equipped cars
in Norway in 2013
Evidently helped on the one hand by the country’s latitude, comparatively snow-rich winters in
the northern parts and by no means least, some of the highest average incomes in Europe, the sales share of
4WD equipped cars ballooned to 32.4 per cent from an already high 28 per cent in the previous year.
Both years set a new all-time record for the segment.
Last year’s top sellers in the segment were the Toyota RAV-4, Mitsubishi Outlander and the Volkswagen
Tiguan with respective full year sales of 3,395 , 2,989 and 2,888, followed in turn by Nissan’s Qashqai and
Volvo’s XC60 with sales of 2,627 and 2,106...more
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EUROPEAN
new
4WD CAR sales SHARE:
by
country
FULL
YEAR
2013 v FULL
YEAR
2012
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