UK Auto Sales By Brand - 2011 Year End

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As it was last year, Ford was the United Kingdom's best-selling car brand in 2011. 265,894 Fords were sold to Britons in 2011. Two-thirds of those Fords were Fiestas and Focuses. 

While Ford was the best-selling brand, a greater share of the market was owned by Volkswagen. By owning Audi, Skoda, and Seat, 19.7% of the UK market was Volkswagen's. General Motors, by the way, recorded a very similar 19.6% market share in America in 2011. Ford has no luxury division to boost its share in the United Kingdom as it does in the United States and Canada where its market share tallies are 16.8% and 17.4%, respectively.

BMW finished 2011 as the UK's top-selling premium car brand. Land Rover finished fourth. Compare that stat with Land Rover's finish in America. The Brits do like their homegrown brands, even if the revenue is now funnelled to overseas corporations like Tata, BMW, and Volkswagen. Mini very nearly out-sold Honda (and succeeded at doing so in December) while Jaguar's declining sales were still strong enough to see off Lexus.

As for non-Ford American brands, you'll have to scroll down a ways to find any. Chevrolet sold 12,524 cars in the United Kingdom in 2011, that's down 8.4% from 2010. Jeep's UK division sold 2146 vehicles in 2011 - Jeep sells that many Wranglers each week in the U.S. The Chrysler brand accounted for 1182 of Fiat's total sales in 2011. Infiniti is very much a Japanese brand but something of a U.S. creation. The brand has been very slow to take off on the other side of the Atlantic. Initially, Lexus was as well, and despite Toyota's troubles this year, Lexus improved its UK sales total by 33% in 2011. It takes time.

All the pertinent UK auto sales figures are below. Last year's version of this table can be viewed here.

Rank	Automaker	2011 Year End	2010 Year End	% Change
#1	Ford	265,894	280,364	- 5.2%
#2	Vauxhall	234,710	247,265	- 5.1%
#3	Volkswagen	179,290	174,655	+ 2.7%
#4	BMW	116,642	109,418	+ 6.6%
#5	Audi	113,797	99,828	+ 14.0%
#6	Nissan	96,269	89,681	+ 7.4%
#7	Peugeot	94,989	109,324	- 13.1%
#8	Mercedes-Benz	81,873	74,977	+ 9.2%
#9	Toyota	73,589	87,396	- 15.8%
#10	Citroen	68,464	73,317	- 6.6%
#11	Renault	68,449	95,608	- 28.4%
#12	Hyundai	62,900	61,752	+ 1.9%
#13	Kia	53,615	56,114	- 4.5%
#14	Honda	50,577	63,652	- 20.5%
#15	Mini	50,138	43,894	+ 14.2%
#16	Skoda	45,061	41,240	+ 9.3%
#17	Fiat	41,612	53,092	- 21.6%
#18	Land Rover	37,637	37,272	+ 1.0%
#19	Seat	36,089	32,935	+ 9.6%
#20	Volvo	32,657	37,435	- 12.8%
#21	Mazda	31,219	45,449	- 31.3%
#22	Suzuki	20,295	21,484	- 5.5%
#23	Jaguar	13,787	16,417	- 16.0%
#24	Chevrolet	12,524	13,678	- 8.4%
#25	Alfa Romeo	11,563	8834	+ 30.9%
#26	Mitsubishi	9843	12,209	- 19.4%
#27	Lexus	8269	6202	+ 33.3%
#28	Porsche	6382	6784	- 5.9%
#29	smart	5044	7651	- 34.1%
#30	Saab	4138	5898	- 29.8%
#31	Subaru	2634	3897	- 32.4%
#32	Jeep	2146	2078	+ 3.3%
#33	Abarth	1291	1425	- 9.4%
#34	Chrysler	1182	1392	- 15.1%
#35	Bentley	1037	993	+ 4.4%
#36	Aston Martin	1024	1080	- 5.2%
#37	Perodua	543	761	- 28.7%
#38	Proton	446	767	- 41.9%
#39	Maserati	388	456	- 14.9%
#40	Infiniti	382	232	+ 64.7%
#41	MG	360	282	+ 27.7%
#42	Lotus	329	577	- 43.0%
#43	Ssangyong	194	242	- 19.8%
#44	Daihatsu	3	170	- 98.2%

Source: Automakers, MTI & SMMT 
Red font indicates declining year-over-year sales, bold indicates a so-called premium brand

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