French market in August 2016: the share of diesel still lower, to 51.3% of sales

The trend continues and thus is confirmed: French motorists continue to turn in favor of diesel gasoline, with a market share drops to 51.3% in August.

The latest business lifted by the Commission Royal is another nail in the coffin diesel in France. Pollution and cheating rumors, the French customer breaks his last years with his love for diesel and its share in new car sales is falling dramatically. In August, it stood at 51.32% when it was 56.99% last year, with a sales decline of 3.9% in a market up 6.7%! The big winner in history, it is the essence. Neglected for many years but not vindictive, it represented a share last month to 44.31% against 38.46% a year earlier, representing an                                                                             increase in sales of 22.9%.

With the bonus of € 2,000 which went only 750 € in early, non-plug-in hybrid yield by cons ground, falling to 2.96% against 3.36% of market share in August 2015, a decline in sales of 6% despite the arrival of Kia and Suzuki in the segment. This decline does not respect the leaders that are Toyota (+ 38.6%) and Lexus (+ 24.3%) but the majority of PSA and Mercedes models.

Enjoying always against by the € 6,300 of government assistance or € 10,000 in exchange for old diesel, electric graze the bar of 1% market share at 0.94%, against 0, 78% previously, an increase of 28.2% of sales. The market is still monopolized by Renault (36.67% market share) and Nissan (21.98%).


The most spectacular progressions finally come rechargeable hybrid dominated by BMW (43.01% market share), Audi (19.95%) and Volkswagen (16.84%), but also ethanol (thanks only to launch of the Volkswagen Golf at it alone Multifuel representing 87.23% of the market) with sales up 41.4% and 571.4% respectively, although this still represents very low shares, 0.39 and 0.05% of the market across all fuels.