June 2012 UK Auto Sales By Brand

Collectively, residents of the United Kingdom acquired 189,514 new vehicles in June 2012. Ford led the way with 23,654 of those sales. However, the Volkswagen Group - which includes high-volume brands like Audi, Skoda, and Seat - accounted for one out of every five cars sold. Overall, VW's market share in June was 7.5 percentage points beyond Ford's.

Yet it was Ford, not Volkswagen, which landed its car atop the standings in today's earlier best-selling cars post. The Fiesta is responsible for 38.3% of all Ford UK sales. Not available as a three-door in the United States where it's part of a very different lineup, the Fiesta accounted for 2.3% of Ford's U.S. volume in June.

Overall, the UK car market grew 3.5% in June 2012 and is up 2.7% this year. In June, no mainstream automaker fell harder than Renault, a brand which has lost much of its fleet in the United Kingdom. 

Not surprisingly, Honda sales rose sharply after the brand suffered from low inventory in June 2011. Honda remains a relatively small part of the UK industry. BMW sold more copies of the 3-Series in June than Honda sold cars in total.

BMW, by the way, was the best-selling luxury car brand in the UK in June. Therefore Audi leads the standings year-to-date by a smaller margin at the halfway point, just 1491 units.

The UK loves its home market products, inordinately so, thus Land Rover sales continue to rise. For the tenth consecutive month, Land Rover posted a year-over-year increase. Jaguar, though down 5% last month, continues to grab decent market share compared with what happens elsewhere. 0.4% of all new vehicle sales in the UK in June were Jaguars. In the United States, Jaguar's market share in June was just 0.08%. 

All 43 brands are ranked by June 2012 volume in the table below. Last month's version can be viewed here, last year's here, and the U.S. and Canadian versions here and here, respectively. Click the chart above for market share figures. 

Rank	Automaker	June 2012	% Change	Year  To Date	YTD  % Change
#1	Ford	23,654	- 3.3%	150,378	+ 4.1%
#2	Vauxhall	21,334	- 9.7%	115,932	- 9.0%
#3	Volkswagen	17,121	+ 4.1%	95,805	+ 1.6%
#4	BMW	14,302	+ 15.2%	64,514	+ 6.5%
#5	Audi	10,936	+ 2.2%	66,005	+ 6.6%
#6	Nissan	10,818	+ 23.5%	53,977	+ 10.9%
#7	Peugeot	8708	- 8.1%	52,482	+ 2.4%
#8	Mercedes-Benz	8211	+ 11.0%	47,790	+ 14.6%
#9	Hyundai	7362	+ 37.6%	35,168	+ 11.4%
#10	Mini	7151	+ 20.9%	24,614	- 0.02%
#11	Toyota	7098	+ 25.3%	45,299	+ 18.2%
#12	Citroen	6381	+ 1.9%	37,330	+ 3.7%
#13	Kia	5971	+ 17.2%	33,478	+ 22.7%
#14	Honda	5726	+ 73.1%	27,511	+ 5.7%
#15	Skoda	5463	+ 7.2%	28,076	+ 15.9%
#16	Fiat	4678	- 1.3%	25,485	+ 10.2%
#17	Land Rover	3772	+ 46.0%	26,075	+ 30.6%
#18	Seat	3431	+ 11.7%	19,186	+ 3.7%
#19	Volvo	3146	- 2.8%	17,297	- 3.0%
#20	Renault	3099	- 57.0%	19,575	- 46.8%
#21	Suzuki	2200	+ 31.7%	12,768	+ 20.5%
#22	Mazda	2077	- 38.2%	15,034	- 13.9%
#23	Chevrolet	1189	- 8.6%	8811	+ 26.9%
#24	Jaguar	1156	- 4.8%	7107	+ 3.2%
#25	Lexus	813	+ 39.7%	4751	+ 15.5%
#26	Porsche	771	+ 61.3%	3939	+ 33.1%
#27	Alfa Romeo	628	- 36.4%	4158	- 35.9%
#28	smart	507	- 6.8%	2682	- 4.2%
#29	Mitsubishi	457	- 49.9%	3549	- 41.9%
#30	Chrysler	341	+ 478%	1606	+ 413%
#31	Jeep	214	- 10.1%	1181	+ 12.8%
#32	Subaru	145	+ 59.3%	1234	- 17.4%
#33	Bentley	105	- 7.1%	663	+ 13.0%
#34	Abarth	103	- 1.0%	607	- 12.5%
#35	Aston Martin	60	- 25.0%	482	- 17.6%
#36	Ssangyong	44	+ 4300%	420	+ 4100%
#37	Perodua	34	- 24.4%	245	- 17.0%
#38	Saab	33	- 87.6%	176	- 95.0%
#39	Infiniti	28	+ 211%	296	+ 82.7%
#40	Maserati	21	- 48.8%	171	- 19.7%
#41	MG	19	- 60.4%	530	+ 317%
#42	Proton	17	- 46.9%	155	- 46.0%
#43	Lotus	3	- 83.3%	82	- 62.4%
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	Volkswagen Group	37,827	+ 5.3%	213,674	+ 5.5%
	Ford Motor Company	23,654	- 3.3%	150,378	+ 4.1%
	General Motors (Vauxhall & Chevrolet)	22,523	- 9.6%	124,743	- 7.2%
	BMW-Mini	21,453	+ 17.0%	89,128	+ 4.6%
	PSA (Peugeot & Citroen)	15,089	- 4.1%	89,812	+ 2.9%
	RNA (Renault, Nissan & Infiniti)	13,945	- 12.7%	73,848	- 13.8%
	Hyundai-Kia	13,333	+ 27.6%	68,646	+ 16.6%
	Daimler AG	8718	+ 9.7%	50,472	+ 13.4%
	Toyota UK	7911	+ 26.7%	50,050	+ 18.0%
	Fiat Group & Chrysler-Jeep	5985	- 3.0%	33,208	+ 4.2%
	Honda	5726	+ 73.1%	27,511	+ 5.7%
	Jaguar-Land Rover	4928	+ 29.8%	33,182	+ 23.6%
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	Total	189,514	+ 3.5%	1,057,680	+ 2.7%

Source: Automakers & SMMT

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