November 2012 United Kingdom Auto Sales By Brand

New car registrations in the United Kingdom rose 11% in November 2012. Ford remained on top with more than 21,000 sales and 14.2% of the market.

Six Volkswagen Group brands together owned one-fifth of the market. Audi's year-to-date lead over BMW shrunk to just 1481 units. Audi was 3842 sales ahead of BMW at the end of August.

Through the first eleven months of 2012, fewer than one-third of the brands in this table suffered year-over-year declines. Saab, Lotus, Proton, Maserati, and Perodua barely count. Aston Martin's 103-unit drop attracts attention, not because Aston Martin is such a mainstream brand, but because it's a British brand competing in its home market, a market that favours British brands.

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Strange as it may sound to North American buyers, Mini outsold Honda in the United Kingdom in November. Land Rover did, too. Jaguar outsells Lexus by a 1.6-to-1 count. And Volkswagen-owned Bentley? With 0.07% of the UK new car market in November, Bentley's obviously a niche brand. But Bentley owned just 0.02% of the American new vehicle market last month. That says something about the love of Bentley in Britain.

43 brands are ranked by November 2012 UK sales volume in the table below. GoodCarBadCar ranked the UK's 10 best-selling cars earlier this morning.

Rank	Automaker	November 2012	%  Change	Year To Date	YTD  % Change
#1	Ford	21,152	+ 16.9%	266,261	+ 6.0%
#2	Vauxhall	18,262	+ 23.3%	215,983	- 1.4%
#3	Volkswagen	13,247	+ 0.5%	173,447	+ 2.8%
#4	BMW	9704	+ 3.3%	117,355	+ 7.6%
#5	Audi	8214	+ 8.3%	118,836	+ 10.6%
#6	Nissan	7678	+ 11.1%	99,394	+ 9.9%
#7	Peugeot	6696	+ 8.1%	94,729	+ 4.9%
#8	Mercedes-Benz	6671	+ 9.9%	86,594	+ 12.4%
#9	Toyota	6346	+ 19.3%	80,414	+ 18.1%
#10	Hyundai	5754	+ 63.9%	68,734	+ 19.6%
#11	Citroen	5435	+ 12.9%	69,721	+ 8.2%
#12	Kia	5003	+ 39.7%	62,739	+ 22.8%
#13	Mini	4424	+ 0.3%	46,825	+ 2.1%
#14	Skoda	4122	+ 40.1%	50,403	+ 19.5%
#15	Land Rover	3782	+ 19.6%	46,094	+ 32.1%
#16	Renault	3387	- 19.4%	37,027	- 42.1%
#17	Honda	3381	- 12.5%	50,877	+ 5.3%
#18	Fiat	2907	+ 22.8%	46,647	+ 18.4%
#19	Seat	2705	+ 6.6%	35,999	+ 7.1%
#20	Volvo	2460	- 1.2%	29,760	- 2.9%
#21	Suzuki	1431	+ 7.1%	23,329	+ 22.3%
#22	Mazda	1292	- 5.1%	25,213	- 14.8%
#23	Jaguar	1071	+ 15.9%	13,055	+ 0.6%
#24	Chevrolet	780	- 18.1%	13,040	+ 10.3%
#25	Porsche	643	+ 22.9%	7237	+ 27.8%
#26	smart	553	+ 73.9%	5102	+ 8.4%
#27	Lexus	443	- 49.3%	8014	+ 5.6%
#28	Mitsubishi	384	- 21.8%	5814	- 38.0%
#29	Alfa Romeo	321	- 53.4%	6963	- 36.4%
#30	Jeep	175	+ 23.2%	2186	+ 13.1%
#31	Abarth	115	+ 102%	1172	- 3.4%
#32	Bentley	109	+ 67.7%	1184	+ 20.1%
#33	Chrysler	107	- 54.3%	3198	+ 198%
#34	Subaru	83	- 42.0%	1931	- 22.5%
T35	Ssangyong	55	- 23.6%	810	+ 466%
T35	Infiniti	55	- 19.1%	488	+ 40.2%
#37	Aston Martin	50	- 19.4%	868	- 10.6%
#38	Perodua	29	- 6.5%	394	- 24.5%
#39	Maserati	22	- 4.3%	295	- 20.3%
#40	MG	21	+ 200%	689	+ 177%
#41	Proton	5	- 83.3%	207	- 51.3%
#42	Lotus	1	- 97.4%	123	- 61.4%
#43	Saab	1	- 95.8%	232	- 94.4%
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	Volkswagen Group	29,040	+ 8.2%	387,106	+ 7.9%
	Ford Motor Company	21,152	+ 16.9%	266,261	+ 6.0%
	General Motors	19,042	+ 20.8%	229,023	- 0.7%
	BMW-Mini	14,128	+ 2.3%	164,180	+ 5.9%
	PSA Peugeot & Citroen	12,131	+ 10.2%	164,450	+ 6.2%
	RNA Renault, Nissan & Infiniti	11,120	- 0.5%	136,909	- 11.5%
	Hyundai-Kia	10,757	+ 51.7%	131,473	+ 21.1%
	Daimler AG	7224	+ 13.1%	91,696	+ 12.1%
	Toyota UK	6789	+ 9.6%	88,428	+ 16.8%
	Jaguar-Land Rover	4853	+ 18.8%	59,149	+ 23.6%
	Fiat Group & Chrysler-Jeep	3647	+ 3.8%	60,461	+ 10.0%
	Honda	3381	- 12.5%	50,877	+ 5.3%
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---	Total	149,191	+ 11.3%	1,921,052	+ 5.4%

Source: Automakers & SMMT

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