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Registrations of passenger new vehicles in Germany increased 4 5 during the first quarter of 2016 Volkswagen was the top-selling brand and the favorite car of VW Golf Germany Although sales of VW were down during the first three months of 2016, Audi sales rose strongly to take second place as best-selling car brand in Germany Mercedes Benz.
Germany's new car market grew 4 5 in the period January-March 2016 compared to the first quarter of 2015 new car registrations were 791.424 cars in 2016 almost 34 000 cars there over a year.
The German market was at least partly influenced by the Easter weekend was in March 2016 compared to April last year In March 2016, car sales were flat with the part of VW's market falls to 19 5 not often in recent years that Volkswagen had less than a fifth of new car sales in Germany.
Total new vehicle registrations in Germany in the first quarter of 2016 increased by 4 2 921060 vehicles Bus 12 7 and 10 major heavy vehicles increases.
The new registration figures for passenger vehicles released by the KBA listed below as the most car brands sold in Germany in the first three months of 2016.
Volkswagen easily maintained its lead as the best-selling car brand in Germany in the first quarter of 2016, however, with sales down 4 on a growing market, VW lost nearly 2 market share compared to the first quarter of 2015 in March 2016, VW sales were down 6 3 during the first quarter of 2016, VW was the worst performer of the top ten brands in Germany and among the 20 best-selling car brands in Germany, as Fiat did worse.
In contrast, Audi VW opportunity grew sales 14 7 and took second place in Mercedes Benz Audi sold around 10,000 cars more in the first quarter of 2016 than a year ago Mercedes Benz and BMW the sales rose more than 6, but both fell significantly behind Audi competitor.
There were top ten brands most sold cars in Germany in the first quarter 2016 Opel had a solid performance at half the gap to BMW while Ford also had no double-digit growth for another change rank.
Skoda sales grew less than the market average, but the Czech VW brand car brand remained the favorite import from Germany in early 2016 Skoda remained comfortably ahead of Renault despite the strong performance French brand.
Hyundai sales were flat, while Seat owned VW was the only other top ten brand with lower sales in the first quarter of 2016.
Some other key features Car sales statistics for the first quarter 2016 in Germany.
The marks of the most successful cars, with sales increases of at least a fifth, were Ssangyong, Jaguar, Honda, Land Rover, Tesla, Mitsubishi and Lexus.
The worst-performing brand, with declining sales of two figures were DS, Suzuki, Smart and Jeep.
Nissan has remained the best selling Japanese car brand in Germany in early 2016, but Mazda has taken second place Toyota Honda, Mitsubishi, Lexus and Subaru has increased sales while sales of Suzuki decreased 16.
Smart, Porsche and Mini sales appeared weak largely because of new models leading to very strong sales in early 2015.
Lancia and Chevrolet were removed as separate brands mentioned in the new German car sales statistics and replaced by SsangYong and Tesla.
The VW Golf easily maintained its position as the best-selling car model in Germany.
2016 (Q1) Germany car brands and best-selling models, 2016 Germany brands.