Sporty SUV (SUV) are becoming increasingly popular in Germany. In the first five months of the year, as many SUV as never sold as showing a study of CAR auto research center of the University of Duisburg-Essen were with about 178.000 vehicles.
Therefore, SUV currently have a market share of 13.4 percent. Almost every seventh new cars is a such. "This is the SUV are the fastest growing segment of the vehicle in Germany", said car expert Ferdinand Dudenhoffer of the dpa. On the other hand, vehicles with notchback losing their market share.
Since the year 2000, the SUV segment in Germany is growing annually by 15 percent, said Dudenhoffer. More than 500,000 SUV as new cars are sold in the year 2015, 15.7 percent market share, this would be then.
In 1995, which were still a niche from United States of over geschwappten SUV: straight times around 68,000 vehicles of this class have been sold at that time. "Now this number will be sold to SUV in Germany in less than two months", said Dudenhoffer. According to his information, top-selling SUV in Germany are the VW Tiguan, Nissan Qashqai, the BMW X 1, the Audi Q5 and the Dacia Duster.
Also for SUV, there is an efficiency trend: "great during the first SUV, hard and fuel drinking were, the trend towards the compact SUV, such as the VW prevails more and more Tiguan or Nissan Qashqai,", stressed Dudenhoffer. Meanwhile, 77 percent of the SUV are compact SUV "and thus the previous big brothers from United States no longer comparable to".
The big loser in the German car market is the notchback sedan. These will be sold only by the season. The top-selling cars with sedan are the Mercedes c-class, the BMW according to the report currently 5 series and Mercedes E-class. The market share of the notchback sedan in Germany was 24.4 per cent, in 1995 he has now shrunk to 6.2 per cent.
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