Sales of new cars in the Czech Republic fell 11.1% year-on-year to 143,843 vehicles in three quarters. In September, sales increased by five percent. This was announced at today’s press conference of the Association of Automobile Importers.
The best seller is still Škoda with 46,018 cars, the second is the Hyundai brand with 14,628 cars and the third Volkswagen has sold 12,115 cars. Toyota, Kia and Dacia follow. The most popular model is the Škoda Octavia with 10,320 units sold, followed by the Fabia (9,130) and the third Hyundai i30 (6,311).
A total of 72.4% of the cars were bought by companies. The most popular category is that of Sport Utility SUVs with a share of 44.5%, followed by the lower-middle class with 15.9% and small cars with 13%. In terms of fuel, gasoline leads with 66.8%, followed by diesel with 24.4%. At the same time, 2,869 electric cars were sold. Sales of hybrids increased by a fifth.
Light commercial vehicle registrations fell 12.7% to 12,511 vehicles. Renault leads with sales of 1,953 cars, followed by Ford and Peugeot. Truck sales increased 3.3% to 6,427 vehicles. The first is Volvo with 1250 cars, the second is Mercedes-Benz and the third is DAF.
Bus sales increased 24.7% to 986 vehicles. The best seller Iveco Bus sold 366 vehicles, SOR 246 and Setra 182. Three quarters of these were commercial vehicles.
Demand for motorcycles increased 17.8% to 22,279 cars. Honda sold the most, a total of 4,297 bikes, the second CF Moto was chosen by 2,000 customers. The third is Yamaha with 1,503 cars sold.
In the gallery, take a look at the twenty best-selling new cars for the three quarters of this year.
