Fiat
Group Automobiles (FGA) struggled in Germany last month
as Fiat and Alfa Romeo both underperformed the overall
market, which was mildly negative, although Lancia was
up, albeit off the back of nominal volumes.
In total 226,455 new passenger cars were sold in Germany
last month, that was down by 4.7 percent year-on-year.
The Fiat brand sold 5,009 cars in Germany last month, a
fall of 14.7 percent when compared to August 2011. That
gave Fiat a 2.2 percent share of the market for the
month.
Alfa Romeo dropped 32.7 percent to 486 cars during
August which made it Germany's third worst performer for
August in year-on-year terms, behind Jaguar (-53.6
percent) and Daihatsu (-63.8 percent) with the latter in
the process of being withdrawn from this market. Alfa
Romeo claimed 0.2 percent of Germany new car sales last
month.
Lancia provided better news last month for FGA, it was
up 22.9 percent to 193 units although that gave it only
a 0.1 percent share of the market for the month.
Chrysler Group meanwhile added 550 sales in August
although these would be all or almost all drawn from the
Jeep brand.
For the year-to -date 2,108,716 new cars have been sold
in Germany which is flat on last year (-0.6 percent).
The Fiat brand has 51,695 sales for the year-to-date,
down 11.0 percent year-on-year which gives it a 2.5
percent share of all sales so far this year. Alfa Romeo
has 5,580 sales so far this year; it's down 27.50
percent to make it the market's second worst performer
so far this year compared to the same eight months of
2011, after Daihatsu. It has a 0.3 percent slice of
German sales so far in 2012.
Lancia however has had a positive year, at least in
terms of its volumes, compared to 2011. With 2,345 sales
so far this year, it's up 105.2 percent to 2,345 units,
the market's best performer in year-on-year terms, ahead
of Land Rover (+91.0 percent). Chrysler Group has 4,816
sales for the year-to-date, a rise of 40.9 percent
versus the opening eight months of 2011 and a 0.2
percent share of the market.
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