The coronavirus pandemic seems to be heading for control, mainly through widespread vaccinations across Europe, and this certainly creates an air of optimism.
For the car industry, the optimism also stems from the good course of sales, which may still be far from those before Covid-19 but compared to last year, catastrophic year show a very significant increase. For April and in 27 European countries it reached 216%.
But what are the models that Europeans prefer? Before we look at them in detail, we should note that the models of category B or otherwise hyper-mini hold well, despite the buzz of SUVs. And this is because in the top ten they are represented by 5 total models, which constitute 50%.
In the first two places of the most successful models in April were found two Peugeot , The 208 and 2008, with the difference between them being only 59 points -18.387 against 18.328.
In 3rd place in the ranking is the previously undisputed European best seller, the Golf of vw, while in fourth and fifth place are Toyota Yaris and VW T Roc.
In sixth place the Opel Corsa, in front of Renault Clio, Fiat 500, Peugeot 3008 and Citroen C3.
In terms of groups, April was dominant stellantis which arose from the unification of French PSA and Italian-American FCA, with a total of 6 models in the top 10 in terms of sales.