The tops and flops at the SUVs

The past year is completed with the registration figures for December 2010. We look back on a rapidly growing segment, analyze the numbers and name the winners and losers of the past year 1 according to the scrapping premium.

What a year - the 2009 discontinued scrapping premium left a huge crater in the sales statistics of the manufacturer. Minus records in all segments, especially the mini and compact cars have been hit by the sales decline in bad. Was only a category for bright eyes on the manufacturers: all-terrain vehicle and SUV.

Which had signed off during the whole year, has become evident in the financial statements. No class put to in buyers favour. You rose 2009 SUV registrations to 20.6 percent, while the total new registrations went back to 23.4 percent. Only at the sports car, with 46.305 new registrations a much smaller segment, there was a similar plus.
The sales figures of the last months make it clear that the trend would continue. Not only the numerous releases of last year, above all BMW X 3, Dacia Duster and the renovated SUV range of KIA and Hyundai, are fed up in the plus. Also models, replacing the short is imminent as the Mercedes ML, sold as splendidly. And for 2011 more new releases and facelifts are announced, which will further stimulate business. Every tenth new cars in Germany is now a SUV.
Particularly pleasing from a German perspective: above-average, almost all domestic manufacturers benefit from the trend. Audi, BMW, Ford, Mercedes and VW sell their SUV as sliced bread, BMW has placed each of the four X series among the top 20. Also Land Rover can benefit from the demand and increase sales to range from approximately 16 to over 60 percent--only the classic Defender is negative. Jeep is a completely renewed model range at the door, which will bring a good boost for the company in 2011.
If you are missing in our overview of the Nissan Qashqai: Nissan as SUV, but as a minivan in the registration statistics lists the. With 24.148 registrations, it would have served three in the SUV for rank. It is a pity that the other three off-roader of brand find hardly buyer, Murano, Pathfinder, and X-Trail sold sports together less units than Land Rover alone of the expensive luxury off-roader Range Rover.
In our slideshow, you will find the exact figures and rankings of the most popular SUV and all-terrain - and in the second part hardly buyer found the collection of slow for that.