Middle ranked car manufacturers make most of the running in West Europe's October car market

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Middle ranked players make most of the running
Europe’s forgotten midfield players find their voices again

Published: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:06:16 GMT
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GM’s Opel-Vauxhall, together with Korea’s Hyundai-Kia were October’s principal winners in the leading pack. With one notable exception - the meteoric ascent of also-ran Mitsubishi - October’s star performers could be found in the middle ranks of West Europe's best-sellers chart

Upwardly mobile carmakers Nissan, Dacia and SEAT, whose October sales outpaced the overall car market by a very long stretch, stand out as October’s biggest gainers.

AID’s provisional sales data reveals that their October car sales grew by between 19 and 26 per cent, adding up to around four times the market average.

While Europe’s traditional powerhouse brands such as Volkswagen, Peugeot-Citroen, Renault and Ford also ended the month with improved sales, neither of these managed to outpace October’s overall market.

Toyota – also placed in the middle bunch of volume carmakers - ranks amongst October’s main losers.

1,013
Outlander PHEV October sales in the UK

The way and ahead fastest climber, albeit from a lowly bottom-ender position was Mitsubishi.

Its October sales, thanks in large measure to the sudden meteoric climb from its Outlander plug-in (PHEV), rocketed ahead by almost 80 per cent.

That’s doubly underlined by news that October’s Outlander PHEV sales in the UK alone spiralled to some 1,013 units...more

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DATA AVAILABLE TO SUBSCRIBERS WITH THIS ARTICLE:

EUROPEAN new CAR sales:

by country
OCTOBER 2014 V OCTOBER 2013
10-MOnths 2014 v 10-Months 2013

WEST EUROPEAN new CAR sales:

by manufacturer and marque
OCTOBER 2014 V OCTOBER 2013
10-MOnths 2014 v 10-Months 2013

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1,013 Outlander PHEV October sales in the UK

1,013
Outlander PHEV October sales in the UK