Europe’s Best-Selling Cars In February

You already have the bad news about February car sales in Europe. How did individual cars fare? JATO Dynamics provides us with a list of Europe's Top Ten in February. With two exceptions, they are all down, some are way down. One exception creates great happiness in a suburb of Detroit. As usual, Volkswagen's Golf and Polo lead the list by wide margins. Like Volkswagen itself, Wolfsburg's bestsellers lost only a little bit (compared to other losers,) thereby gaining market share. The strength of the Volkswagen Passat surprises for yet another month. Ford's Focus continues to amaze, achieving a 20.1 percent increase in a disastrous market. Its strength is particularly surprising as much of this sales growth comes from the declining market in France. The French suffered double-digits losses of the Renault Clio and Peugeot 207. Opel's bestsellers disappoint. Make & Model Feb_12 Feb_11 % change Feb Feb YtD_12 Feb YtD_11 % change YtD VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 32,724 34,154 -4.2% 69,587 71,117 -2.2% VOLKSWAGEN POLO 24,254 25,756 -5.8% 50,295 54,935 -8.4% FORD FOCUS 19,681 16,392 +20.1% 41,949 37,186 +12.8% FORD FIESTA 19,588 24,245 -19.2% 43,516 51,611 -15.7% RENAULT CLIO 19,048 27,499 -30.7% 37,550 53,445 -29.7% OPEL CORSA 18,986 21,693 -12.5% 34,622 44,694 -22.5% VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 16,622 16,549 +0.4% 34,317 31,887 +7.6% PEUGEOT 207 15,951 21,419 -25.5% 34,196 42,445 -19.4% OPEL ASTRA 15,879 21,692 -26.8% 33,051 42,623 -22.5% FIAT PANDA 15,785 16,209 -2.6% 30,934 32,705 -5.4% from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com

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