Automobile and light commercial vehicle market data for June and the first half of the year were announced. The statements made show that the contraction in the market continues. Moreover, cars that fall into the low tax bracket have started to cover almost the entire market.
Automotive Distributors Association (ODD), for June 2022 automobile and light commercial vehicle released market data. The data disclosed revealed quite striking results. Because the figures show that the sales of luxury cars in Turkey come to a standstill reveals. So much so that the vehicles sold in June 2022 89.1 percent of them are in the low tax bracket. It consisted of A, B and C segment vehicles.
In June 2022, 80,652 vehicles were sold. These sales 64,134 of them carsand 16,518 were light commercial vehicles. While the sales figures were recorded as 1 percent higher than June 2021, it was seen that the contraction in the market continued. Because when looking at the overall year 2022 and comparing it with 2021, it is seen that the sales amount fell 9.3 percent. We see.
Low tax was the reason for preference!
When you look at the graphs above, even the C segment you’ve lost bloodIn the B segment, you can see that the sales have increased. However, when we look at the body types of the vehicles, we encounter surprising results. Accordingly, the vehicles sold in 2022 39.7 percent are SUVs36.1 percent were sedans and 22.2 percent were hatchbacks.
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70.4 percent of vehicles purchased in 2022, i.e. 195,996 of them had gasoline engines. This engine type was followed by diesel with 16.9 percent and hybrid with 9.9 percent. The total number of electric motor cars purchased in 2022 was announced as only 2,263. The SCT regulation continues to keep citizens away from electric vehicles. With this, hybrid It should be said that automobiles are also few in the market. So why do citizens prefer gasoline instead of buying a hybrid engine and saving fuel? The answer is very simple: SCT. Hybrid models with higher displacement both SCT and MTV tiring the citizens on the front…
Manual gear cars are coming to the end of the road!
ODD data also separated vehicles sold by transmission types. We can clearly say that manual transmission cars are gradually they are coming to the end of the road. Because 77.8 percent of the cars sold in 2022 were automatic transmissions. This rate seems to increase a little more each day.
Top selling car brands in June 2022:
- Fiat: 13,601
- Renault: 11,336
- Toyota: 5,584
- Hyundai: 3,608
- Opel: 3,574
- Dacia: 3,389
- Toyota: 3,239
- Peugeot: 3,037
- Mercedes-Benz: 2,278
- Skoda: 2,149
The best-selling car brands in all of 2022 are as follows:
- Renault: 43,813
- Fiat: 41,151
- Volkswagen: 25,463
- Hyundai: 22.365
- Toyota: 18,746
- Dacia: 17,919
- Opel: 14,544
- Honda: 11,528
- Peugeot: 11,006
- Citroen: 10.122
The best selling car of 2022: Fiat Egea sedan
- Fiat Egea sedan: 28,850
- Renault Clio: 22,816
- Toyota Corolla: 16,783
- Dacia Duster: 12,957
- Renault Megane: 11.155
- Fiat Egea Cross: 11,002
- Renault Talian: 7,676
- Hyundai i20: 7.371
- Hyundai Bayon: 6.803
- Volkswagen Polo: 5,851
Source :
https://www.odd.org.tr/folders/2837/categorial1docs/3203/ODD%20Bas%c4%b1n%20Bulteni%204%20July%202022.pdf