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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 10/19/2015 at 14:58 • Filed to: Denmark, Statistics, Sarah Lund, VW Up

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Latest in my series of European car statistics comes Denmark, a place chosen ahead of Finland and the UK because the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! are available free (I’m looking at you, UK) and in a language I have some vague hope of understanding.

Denmark, as we know, is a country noted for the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (which is basically Austrian and therefore called a wienerbrød or Viennese bread), wind turbines, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and 1864, when they held a war and invited Prussia. The Prussians and their duelling scars duly arrived and sadly for the Danes didn’t stop at the then border, proceeding to occupy all of Jutland before peace broke out.

It’s also the country of the Up.

By way of background, Denmark taxes cars that don’t plug in with fearful zeal and so the poor Danes, who are not in fact poor at all but never mind, react by buying little cars. When I say little, I mean little. They have a unique love for the VW Up and similar tots. Because punitive taxes are applied only to cars with thermal engines Teslas are also relatively common - they outsell Mini by about two to one.

So here we go for Denmark’s Top Ten for the year to date:

VW Up

Peugeot 208

Peugeot 108

Toyota Aygo (which is the same car as the 108)

Peugeot 308

Kia Picanto

Golf

Fiesta

VW Polo

Toyota Yaris

Yes, the 308 and the Golf are the biggest cars on the list.

The Danes stand alone in their love for the Up which despite a dramatic loss in sales compared to 2014 still hung onto its lead.

However like most other people in Europe the Danes never asked whatever question it is that Subaru answer and so the latter have a market share of 0.11%.

Have a Danish Up:

To go with that, have a wienerbrød:

You’ll also need Sarah Lund in her jumper (you may be glad to know that Sofie Gråbøl isn’t as glum as her character):

duurtlang > Cé hé sin 10/19/2015 at 15:19

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If you ever need Dutch figures, use this: http://www.autoweek.nl/verkoopcijfers

Dutch is readable enough I imagine. Note that we too have very punitive taxes, although are slightly less cheap (and just different) than those in Danmark.

Here the Golf and the 308 are also the two largest cars in the top 10, the other 8 are smaller.