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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
10/14/2016 at 17:41 • Filed to: Norway, Statistics

It’s high time we went exploring car sales in various part of the world again. Is anybody buying VWs? Is anybody buying diesels? Is anyone buying both? Yes, yes and yes.

So let’s go to Norway, land of oil, gas, elbiler and lots and lots of lovely money. What are the Norwegians buying? Are the stories of hot and cold running Teslas on every driveway true?

To begin with, despite all the rabbiting on about Dieselgate, VW remain market leader. For the first nine months of the year, their market share is 17.3% as compared to 17.8% for the same period last year.

Following on from them come Toyota, BMW (didn’t expect that did we?), Merc, Ford, Nissan, Volvo, Skoda, Audi and Mitsubishi. Just because Norway is next door to Sweden doesn’t mean that they have an unusual interest in Volvos.

More interesting is the other end of the list.

Nothing, for example, will persuade a Norwegian into a Seat. Precisely none have been sold so far this year. Other failures to take off include Lotus,(none), Chevrolet US (as opposed to ex-Daewoo) (one) and Cadillac (one)

Not doing quite so well, despite all the hype, are Tesla who have gone from 2.9% in 2015 to 2.2% this year. Despite Mr Musk’s setback, cars powered wholly or partially by electrons are really coming to be a thing. In September 2015 17.1% of new cars were electric whereas last month the figure was 19.0%. Partial electron power is even more of a thing with hybrids going from 12.6% to 28.8%. Less of a thing is the diesel engine, having tumbled from 39.9% to 27.7% as the Norwegians worry that all this NOx will spoil their pristine Nordicness..

One thing about Norway is almost unique. No, not the trolls or the fjords. It’s firehjulsdrift. In September 42.9% of new cars were 4wd compared to 36.3% last September.

Want to know more, and practice your Norwegian? !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

Have an Outlander PHEV. It’s the second best selling car in Norway.

DISCUSSION (12)

HammerheadFistpunch > Cé hé sin
10/14/2016 at 17:49

When I was there almost 10 years ago I remember seeing a lot of Citroen, but no one was driving a crossover. NO ONE.

Svend > Cé hé sin
10/14/2016 at 17:57

For all the adverts for the Outlander in the U.K. I’ve still yet to see one on the road.

Vicente Esteve > Cé hé sin
10/14/2016 at 17:58

No Seats?! That seems odd.

Cé hé sin > HammerheadFistpunch
10/14/2016 at 18:01

That was ten years ago. Had anyone heard of the term then?

I see that the Rav 4 makes up about 4% of the Norwegian market now and that they also like the Mazda CX3 and CX5. Not so keen on Hondas though.

Cé hé sin > Svend
10/14/2016 at 18:02

I have! One, at least.

Cé hé sin > Vicente Esteve
10/14/2016 at 18:04

Scandinavia. They don’t go for Mediterranean things and vice versa.

HammerheadFistpunch > Cé hé sin
10/14/2016 at 18:09

2007? The rav4 was already in its 3rd gen by then so they [crossovers] were at least a little well know.

Probenja > Cé hé sin
10/14/2016 at 18:12

I wasn’t expecting Mitsubishi to be so high up the list, in Chile it’s also at 10th place but it’s counting the sales of the huge sucess of the new L200 pick up. Of which I’m guessing they don’t sell many in Norway.

Also I’m guessing the Rav4 Hybrid and Kia Niro will be big hits in that market as they like Hybrids and Electrics, plus everyone seems to be in the CUV craze nowadays.

Cé hé sin > HammerheadFistpunch
10/14/2016 at 18:13

I don’t think that the Rav 4 was actually called a crossover at first though. It was for a time pretty much on its own, especially the first one which was a short little thing.

HammerheadFistpunch > Cé hé sin
10/14/2016 at 18:14

true. Still miss my 96

Cé hé sin > Probenja
10/14/2016 at 18:14

What helps Misubishi is the PHEV. Similarly BMW benefit from the i3 which makes up something like 3% of the market on its own.

bhtooefr > Cé hé sin
10/15/2016 at 07:57

Although the Lexus RX was out in, what, 1997?

And RX literally stands for “Radiant Crossover”, I think that might’ve been the first use of the term.