You get large companies buying out brands that are down in the dumps, too, like Hewlett-Packard purchasing Palm or when Tata Motors bought Land Rover and Jaguar because of the brand recall. Looking at the manufacturers ranking, BMW (20%) is comfortably seated on the Iron Throne, followed by Renault (13%, down 1%) in Second Place, while the Third Spot is being hardly fought by the new Bronze medalist Mercedes (11%, up 2%), Volkswagen (10%, down 1%), Nissan and Tesla, these last two with 9% share. Will Mercedes be able to race with Renault for the Second position, or will VW fight back and recover the Third Spot? Looking at the YTD ranking, the top positions remained stable, with the Zoe increasing its lead, with the most notable changes being the Mercedes GLC350e climbing to the Sixth Spot and endangering the Tesla Model S Fifth Place. 8, by the way, imagine how many more units would this model have, if the 7-seater version had also a plug, because excepting the low range Nissan Evalia van-with-windows, no one is selling a regularly priced plug-in 7-seater in Europe.
Despite being holiday season, the Renault Zoe hasn鈥檛 stopped trailing the competition, a bit like cyclist Chris Froome, it seems no one can get them out of the Yellow Jersey, whatever the month or competition, with the French hatchback being once again the Best Seller in July, while plug-in hybrids took this special time of the year to post a positive month and outsell pure electrics (57% vs 43%), but YTD, BEVs are still ahead, if by less than 100 units. Once the first bit comes in, we enable the transmitter on the other side and connect it to the receiver. Great stand by the way, reminding a bit of Ikea philosophy. BMW i3 – The German Hot Hatch was up 151%, to 1.629 units, with 3 out 4 units sold being of the BEV variety, a great contrast with what happened 12 months ago, when the Rex variety used to outsell the all-electric version. The handling is also top-notch and offers great confidence and fun to the driver.
This is the reason the BMW dealers in Ontario are setting up stores for selling used cars in quality condition. Jaguar cars require a very specific wheel and Coventry has mastered the art of the Jaguar wheel. Highlights of the Jaguar F-PACE S include 20-inch wheels, red brake calipers, aluminum interior trim, a Jaguar F-PACE S body kit and more. The F-Pace isn鈥檛 the most spacious car in the medium-sized premium SUV class, but it鈥檚 far from cramped, with plenty of room for four and their luggage. Why, oh why? It鈥檚 low-hanging fruit, people鈥?Looking ahead, expect deliveries to slow down, as people anticipate the revised version, coming later in the year. Looking ahead, expect deliveries to slowly drop, as people anticipate the revised version, coming later in the year. With steady sales in its stronghold markets (France, UK and Norway), and even scoring a record 61 deliveries in Portugal, the veteran model is keeping momentum by appealing to a new demographic, Bargain Hunters looking for the current best value for money out there. Besides the usual strongholds (The UK, Sweden and Norway), Mitsubishi scored a home run last month in Iceland, scoring 134(!) units, a new all-time record for a single model in that country, but in the long run, no one really knows if the Japanese SUV can keep up with the general growing sales trend and stay among Europe鈥檚 top sellers.
4 Nissan Leaf – The Granddaddy of the ranking keeps on scoring four-digit results like if it had been launched only a few months ago, sure, most is thanks to deep discounting, but nevertheless, the ageing hatch is resisting quite well to the newer offerings, growing 18%(!) YoY to 1.128 units. 3 BMW i3 – The German Hot Hatch was up 73% in July, to 1.287 units, with BEVs representing 71% of all sales, while looking at individual countries, no big surprises, with Norway registering 277 units, all of them being BEV, and its home market, Germany, scoring 325 registrations. But enough bitching, the stylish Mercedes has its largest markets in Norway (295 units), Germany (138) and Belgium (132). This model is serving for Mercedes as a customer lab experiment, warming them up to the brands real Game Changer, the 2019 EQ SUV. 1 Renault Zoe – With orders currently outnumbering production, Renault couldn鈥檛 lift off the foot from the accelerator too much and enjoy the holiday season, so the Zoe scored 1.919 units, up 68% YoY, enough to win for the seventh time in a row the Monthly Best Seller status in Europe.