The Turkish new car market saw a relatively flat start to the year in terms of new vehicle sales with the Fiat brand finishing January with 4,160 units sold which positioned it comfortably as the second best selling brand on the market behind Renault.
In total 35,076 new passenger cars and Light Commercial Vehicles (LCV) were sold in January in Turkey with 26,611 of those being cars and the balance, 8,465 units, comprising of LCVs.
That result was almost flat on January 2017 when a total of 35,323 vehicles were sold.
Fiat's total of 4,160 units sold was split was pretty evenly: 2,035 passengers cars were sold by the Italian brand during January (with 1,979 units being built locally by its joint venuture company and the remainder, 56 units, being imported CBU) while it found 2,125 buyers for its LCVs models (1,962 built in Turkey and 163 being imported). Fiat was also up three hundred units up for the month in year-on-year terms.
Those sales for Fiat left it one thousand units down for January to market leader Renault (which sold 5,162 units), a few units ahead of VW (4,127 units) but well clear of fourth placed Ford (3,330 units) and fifth placed Toyota (2,457 units).
Amongst the niche brands Alfa Romeo kicked off the first month of the year with five sales, significantly down on the seventeen cars it sold during the same month last year, Maserati doubled its performance as it sold four cars in January and Ferrari added a single unit.
IVECO sold 122 LCVs last month in Turkey, all imported, and finally FCA's Jeep brand got off the mark for the year with 101 units finding buyers.
