AID’s exclusive survey of notable winners and losers in July’s bloody West European car sales wars

WESTERN EUROPE AID EXCLUSIVE
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AID’s exclusive survey of notable winners and losers in July’s bloody West European car sales wars

Published: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:40:01 GMT
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AID’s exclusive survey of notable winners and losers in July’s bloody West European car sales wars shows the already market-dominating VW Group as the biggest notable winner, thanks to strenuous extra efforts from some of its rich assortment of brands. Already one in four of all new cars sold in Western Europe is now a VW Group product

Provisional West European car sales data for July, compiled by AID, shows that combined efforts from VW’s rich assortment of brands mopped up added sales in July, crowning the already leading group as the biggest notable winner in the group.

Helped by added car sales efforts in its gradually expanding German backyard, VW Group sales this July rose twice as fast as the recovering overall West European market.

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New car sales in W-Europe now a VW Group product

A clear endorsement of VW Group’s sales gains, its July share of West Europe’s expanding overall car sales pie rose to 26 per cent, thus beating last year's same month level by almost 1.5 percentage points.

This expansion has come mainly at the expense of still flagging Peugeot-Citroen and Ford, but also weak-looking Hyundai-Kia and even Toyota.

By contrast, hard-battling Opel-Vauxhall marginally outperformed July’s recovering market...more

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DATA AVAILABLE TO SUBSCRIBERS WITH THIS ARTICLE:

EUROPEAN new CAR sales:

by country
JULY 2014 V JULY 2013
7-MOnths 2014 v 7-Months 2013

WEST EUROPEAN new CAR sales:

by manufacturer and marque
JULY 2014 V JULY 2013
7-MOnths 2014 v 7-Months 2013

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New car sales in W-Europe now a VW Group product