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Wed 22 Feb 2012 15:18
Top 20 retail sales - Auristocrat

Auto Express have published the SMMT UK Retail sales Top 20 for 2011 - which excludes fleet sales. The retail sales chart is as follows, with each model's position in the overall table in brackets:

1. Ford Fiesta (1); 2. Vauxhall Corsa (3); VW Polo (7); 4. Ford Focus (2); 5. Mini (10); 6. VW Golf (4); 7. Fiat 500 (16); 8. Vauxhall Astra (5); 9. Nissan Juke (19); 10. Renault Clio (18); 11. Ford Ka (33); 12. Peugeot 207 (12); 13. Honda Jazz (22); 14. Hyundai i10 (25); 15. Toyota Yaris (32); 16. BMW 3-series (8); 17. Citroen C1 (36); 18. Audi A1 (31); 19. Mercedes E-class (15); 20. Nissan Qasqai (9).

The Vauxhall Insignia doesn't feature in the Retail sales Top 20 as 86% of its sales in 2011 were fleet sales - 6,462 retail sales. The VW Passat has a simimlar split of fleet/retail sales.

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Wed 22 Feb 2012 15:28
Top 20 retail sales - jamie745

The Ford Mondeo outsold by the Mercedes E-Class and Nissan Qashqai when fleet sales are excluded. How very interesting.

No surprise to see the Fiesta top of the tree though.

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Wed 22 Feb 2012 22:27
Top 20 retail sales - Avant

I'd expect the Mondeo to have a similar split of fleet / retail sales to the Insignia and Passat: also it's got too big for people whose dads bought Cortinas and Sierras.

The one that surprised me was the Nissan Juke: if that had been the Note it would have been less of a surprise, as I see far more Notes around. Nissan seem to have done some effective market research into what UK buyers want - except strangely in the city car and supermini classes where the Paxo and Micra are way off the pace.

And many thanks to Auristocrat for the stats.

Edited by Avant on 22/02/2012 at 22:28

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Wed 22 Feb 2012 22:48
Top 20 retail sales - Trilogy

Nissan never thought the Qashqai/Dualit would be the succcess it has been. The Juke has grown on me alot. The front view reminds me of a coupe from the 1960s.

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