July 2012 Top 10 Best-Selling Cars In The United Kingdom

The ten best-selling cars in the United Kingdom in July 2012 were, for the most part, the same cars which end every month as the UK's best-selling cars. The exceptions? Audi's A3 and the Mercedes-Benz C-Class. 

Through the first seven months of 2012, the best-selling premium brand car in the United Kingdom is still the BMW 3-Series, 4735 sales ahead of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class, July's seventh-ranked car. The 3-Series didn't crack the top ten in July.

Overall, the best-selling car in the UK was the Ford Fiesta. As Fiesta sales shot up 13% (in a market which rose 9%), Focus sales dropped 24%. That was the second worst decline among cars in the top 10. Year-to-date, the Fiesta is 14,147 sales ahead of its closest rival, the similarly-sized and similarly-priced Vauxhall Corsa. Corsa sales are up 21% this year.

America's 20 best-selling cars in July also featured the Focus - America's tenth-best-selling car - but none of the other cars on this list appeared on that U.S. list. Brands competing for UK customers have already been ranked by total July volume. Below, take a look at the UK's ten most popular auto nameplates.

Rank	Best-Selling Car	July 2012	% Change	Year To Date	YTD % Change
#1	Ford Fiesta	7533	+ 12.5%	67,103	+ 15.0%
#2	Vauxhall Corsa	5809	+ 13.4%	52,956	+ 21.1%
#3	Vauxhall Astra	5211	+ 27.6%	35,694	- 3.4%
#4	Ford Focus	4742	- 23.9%	48,595	- 3.0%
#5	Volkswagen Golf	4367	+ 2.2%	38,939	+ 4.1%
#6	Nissan Qashqai	3721	+ 9.7%	27,156	+ 16.1%
#7	Mercedes-Benz C-Class	3163	n/a	20,780	n/a
#8	Volkswagen Polo	2863	- 22.3%	25,212	- 5.2%
#9	Audi A3	2711	n/a	n/a	n/a
#10	Vauxhall Insignia	2591	- 35.8%	20,481	- 31.7%

Source: Manufacturers, MTI & SMMT
Red font indicates year-over-year declining sales

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