+10.3%
Rise in Nissan's July West European car sales

-9%
Fall in Toyota brand's July West European car sales

In July, AID’s exclusively compiled West European car sales data reveals that fast-gaining Nissan was up 10.3 per cent to 36,400 units. 

The Toyota brand slipped almost 9 per cent to 36,600. 

No less revealing to some market observers, during the seven months to July this year, Nissan’s West European car sales topped last year’s comparative levels by a faster than average 10.3 per cent, rising to close on 273,000 cars. 

If it stays that by close of this year, which seems likely, Nissan will end the current year with a highest-ever 3.7 per cent car sales share of West Europe’s recovering new car market.

AID forecasters take the view that soon a new milestone could be set. 

If not this year, then next year, hard-pushing Nissan could conceivably dethrone Toyota as the biggest Japanese seller of cars in Western Europe. 

Other than that, and after seven months, Nissan’s Leaf also ranks as West Europe’s top-selling electric car, according to AID’s own exclusive data...more