Two days before the end of the month, the car patents of October they maintain their positive trend. According to the data that appears until yesterday in the SIOMAA registry, there is a 6.3% growth compared to the same month last year.
If compared to September, there is a decrease of 6.6%, while in accumulated annual terms it remains with a decrease of 10.1%. Between today and tomorrow, these numbers may vary depending on the commercial strategy of each brand.
The feeling that exists in the market, in these last two months, is of a consolidation of the demand for different reasons. This, despite the loss of the “blue”.
Patent projections for October are 41,500 units, taking the car segment plus light commercial vehicles.
Until yesterday, 35,611 0km of cars and light vehicles had been patented. lThe estimate in the sector is that between today and tomorrow, close to 3,000 patents can be added each day.
If the participation of “heavy” vehicles is added, the final number should be around 44,000 vehicles. This will become the best October in six years. You have to go back to 2018 (48,571 units) to find a higher October
This way, The total 2024 market should be slightly above 400,000 km and close approximately 10% below 2023. It could be, depending on the pace of recent months, that the year-on-year decline is only single digits.
At the beginning of the year, a drop of close to 25% was estimated.
Regarding behavior by brands, toyota leads sales with 23% of the October market, followed by Volkswagen with 17.9%.
The list is completed by Fiat (12.6%), Peugeot (9%), Ford (7.9%), Renault (7.8%), Chevrolet (5.1%), Jeep (3.9%) , Citroën (2.8%) and Nissan (2.6%).
The top ten of the most patented models in October is led by the Toyota Hilux, with 7.6%% of the market. The Japanese brand also occupies 2nd place with Yaris (6.1%).
Third place is maintained by the Peugeot 208 (5.8%) and fourth for the Volkswagen Amarok (5.5%) that continues to win the duel against the ford ranger which is ranked eighth with 4.2%.
In 5th, 6th and 7th place are Fiat Cronos (5.5%), Volkswagen Polo (4.9%) and Corolla Cross (4.6%). 9th place is occupied by Volkswagen Taos with 3% of operations and 10th by Toyota Corolla (2.8%). With today’s and tomorrow’s patents, there may be some modifications in this ranking
Source: Ambito
