We are at the beginning of the month and, as always, we bring you the passenger car registration data nationally in the previous month. During the month of April have been registered in Spain a total of 101.375 passenger cars, representing a slight 1,1% growth compared to April 2016. This slowdown in registrations is due to the lower number of working days last month with reason for Holy Week, something that we already warned about 30 days ago.
Although we have not found negative numbers in total passenger car sales, it is important to note that the private channel it has seen its market reduced, with a decrease of 14,4%. The increased demand for vehicles by rental companies of vehicles has saved the month with a 35,8% increase compared to April 2016. rent a car they have acquired more vehicles to prepare their fleet, precisely, for Easter tourism. the channel of companies grows by 3,7%. En general, . have enrolled from January 1 to April 30 a total of 409.286 cars, growing 6,1% compared to 2016.
La lack of aid plans to the purchase of new vehicles, as well as the still lack of resources of a large part of the population, has made sales to individuals stagnate in recent months. If we compare the registrations of the first four months of 2016 with the same period of 2017, we see that the growth in this channel for individuals has barely grown by 1,1%, registering a total of 2017 registrations in 191.208.
best selling brands
All the five best-selling passenger car brands in April 2017 they were Seat (with 10.494 units), Peugeot (8.088), Opel (7.537), Volkswagen (7.459) and Renault (6.861). If we take a look at the best-selling automobile companies in Spain in these first four months we find Seat (34.834 units), Opel (32.627), Volkswagen (31.170), Peugeot (28.668) and Renault (27.151).
best selling cars
Brands aside and moving on to models, over the past month the most registered cars They were the Seat Ibiza (4.984), Seat León (3.723), Opel Corsa (3.147), the Citroën C4 range (2.783) and Volkswagen Golf (2.461). In the cumulado In this first quarter we find Seat Ibiza (14.073), Seat León (12.737), Opel Corsa (11.405), the Citroën C4 range (10.989) and Volkswagen Polo (10.124).
Sales according to fuels
El last month we were surprised because, for the first time in many years, diesel had a market share of less than 50%. This month has been repeated, It seems that customers are realizing that it is not so profitable to buy a diesel car today. In April, the market share of cars diesel has once again represented 49,9%, leaving the 46,1% to gasoline cars and the remaining 4% to hybrid and electric vehicles. We hope that this trend will continue.
Source – ANFAC
Diesel continues to rise and its sales do not drop because I know people who work in a dealership and what they sell the most is diesel. It is what they want us to believe so that we do not buy diesel that their sales have dropped and we buy gasoline that they spend more
Diesels continue to rise I know people who work in a dealership and what they sell the most is diesel, that is what they want us to believe that they sell less and buy gasoline that they spend more
Depending on each brand and also on the geographical areas, more models of one type or another are sold. These are official data and yes, what is sold the most are diesel cars, but diesel and gasoline cars are increasingly on par. These are official data taken from associations that are dedicated to collecting all vehicle sales data, so their reliability is very high.
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The point is that more diesel is sold (somewhat more) because the majority of sales are by companies and car rental companies that, as is logical, buy short-term and out of necessity (number of km traveled, cost and cost of fuel ), diesel: cheaper and spends less,… the durability, reliability of more complex engines or the hypothetical prohibition of circulation in many places in a few years, they do not care since cars for rent or for business use are, generally , cars to sell or exchange in no more than 3-5 years, that is, no one who buys a car for renting thinks of having that 2017 car beyond 2020-2021.
The private market is the one that has the most weight in the purchase of gasoline-powered vehicles due to several factors: an individual, except for special circumstances or who lives from the car, rarely does more than 20-25 thousand km per year. In fact, the vast majority do between 8-15 thousand km per year, for which a diesel car, apart from not being amortized in the slightly higher sale price, pays more IVTM, pays more in the future ITV, pays more in insurance. , it pollutes more, it will have more expensive maintenance and potential breakdowns and... to go out on Sundays, frankly, it is absurd when with a gasoline, even if you spend a little more fuel, the difference in consumption and price of said fuel will never to compensate for the cost of acquiring and maintaining diesel. Furthermore, if we take into account that individuals are usually the ones who think about having a car for 8-10-12 years (and sometimes even 15-20 years), it is logical to think that they are not going to buy diesel so that, in a few years, put environmental obstacles, tolls more expensive than gasoline for driving on certain roads or, simply, prohibit access to many cities.
The individual thinks more about owning the vehicle in the long term with less annual km traveled. The company and, above all, the rent a car thinks of owning the vehicle for a short-medium term but with many more kilometers traveled per year. That is the real reason why the dealer you mention sells more diesel: they sell more in the business market than in the private market (the figures sing).
Amen