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Alfa Romeo's troubles extend across Europe
and there is no respite in the UK, its sales
fell 36.44 percent year-on-year from 988 in
June last year to 628 last month. That
reduced Alfa Romeo's share of the UK market
from 0.54 in June last year to 0.33 percent
for the month just gone. |
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It was
another mixed month for Fiat Group Automobiles in the UK
during June, Fiat was almost flat (-1.33 percent) while
Alfa Romeo continued to see its sales unravelling
(-36.44 percent) against an overall market that was up
very slightly (-3.49 percent).
In total 189,514 new cars were sold in the UK during
June as opposed to 183,125 during the same period last
year.
The Fiat brand added 4,678 sales in the UK in June and
when compared to 4,741 during the same month a year ago
it was an almost flat performance. Fiat's market share
for the month edged down very slightly from 2.59 percent
in June 2011 to 2.47 percent last month.
Alfa Romeo's troubles extend across Europe and there is
no respite in the UK, its sales fell 36.44 percent
year-on-year from 988 in June last year to 628 last
month. That reduced Alfa Romeo's share of the UK market
from 0.54 in June last year to 0.33 percent for the
month just gone.
Fiat Group Automobiles' (FGA) niche brands, apart from
Chrysler had little joy. Abarth was flat, down one unit
to 103 cars in June to take a 0.05 percent share of all
sales, Jeep was down 10.08 percent to 214 vehicles for a
0.11 percent share, although Chrysler bucked the trend,
up 477.97 percent, the market's second best performance
in year-on-year terms, albeit to 341 units. That gave
Chrysler a 0.18 percent share of UK sales for the month
just gone. Elsewhere the Fiat Group's Maserati brand saw
its sales halve to 21 units.
For the first half of the year the UK has seen 1,057,680
cars sold, up 2.72 percent on the same six months last
year. The Fiat brand has 25,485 sales for the first half
of this year, up 10.20 percent on the first six months
of 2011 when it shifted 23,126 cars and as a result its
H1 share edges up from 2.25 percent last year to 2.41
percent this year.
Alfa Romeo is on 4,158 registrations for the first half
of 2012 and when compared to 6,488 during the same
period last year that is steep fall of 35.91 percent. As
a result Alfa Romeo's H1 share of the UK market slips
from 0.63 percent last year to 0.39 percent this year.
Abarth is on 607 units for the year-to-date which is
down 87 units and 12.54 percent on the same period last
year. The Scorpion's market share for the period is
almost unchanged, down 0.01 percent to 0.06 percent.
FGA's U.S. brands are both up for H1 2012, Chrysler is
on 1,606 units, up 413.10 percent when compared to the
313 cars it shifted during the same period last year
which makes it the market's second best performer so far
in 2012 in year-on-year terms. Jeep, meanwhile, has
1,181 registrations for the year-to-date and compared to
1,047 during the same six month period last year that is
a rise of 12.80 percent. As a result Jeep's H1 market
share edges up from 0.10 percent last year to 0.11
percent this year.
Finally, Maserati has 171 sales so far in 2012 and
versus 213 during the opening half of last year that is
a decline of 19.72 percent. Maserati has a 0.02 percent
share of UK sales for the year-to-date.
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