EU’s biggest selling car-maker

The latest batch of European new car registration statistics, released on Friday, confirm that Volkswagen was the EU’s biggest selling car-maker over the first six months of 2007, in a very slowly dwindling market. They also confirm the UK market as the third most important for European car-makers, even if it’s the developing markets further east that show the most growth.

VW: away and clear.

Some 846,887 new Volkswagens were registered across Europe during the first half of the year; nearest rival brand Opel / Vauxhall registered 727,933 cars. The gap between Europe’s top two, incidentally, was greater than the total EU registrations of Korean manufacturer Kia.

Ford was third in the new car sales tally, recording 702,161 cars, and behind it ranked Renault (656,188 cars), Peugeot (611,952), Fiat (538,804) and Citroen (514,848).

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