Which German car brand saw the greatest increase in new registrations in June compared to the same month last year? The answer: Opel. The Rüsselsheim subsidiary of the Stellantis Group increased sales by 69.3 percent last month. No brand with a comparable market share was able to do that even in the slightest. The competitor Ford even recorded a minus of 27 percent, according to the Federal Motor Transport Authority. Audi improves by 29 percent, market leader Volkswagen by 46 percent. The French Opel sisters also grew: Citroen by a third and Peugeot by a fifth. Opel controls your sales in Germany from its headquarters in southern Hesse.
A good 16,500 brand-new Opel vehicles were bought by buyers.
There have been almost 85,000 since the beginning of January.
Under the leadership of company boss Michael Lohscheller, Opel succeeds in making a comeback after a very weak Corona year.
In 2020 sales collapsed by a third and the market share dropped to five percent.
No well-known German manufacturer came off worse.
Opel fell significantly behind Ford and the Audi sister company Skoda, whose German sales department is based in Weiterstadt near Darmstadt.
Corsa as a successful model
Meanwhile, however, the market share of the Rüsselsheim company is 6.1 percent, just as high as in May.
Skoda's quota is the same.
Ford, however, fell back to five percent in the first half of the year.
Citroen comes to 1.8 percent and Peugeot to 2.1 percent, for the Italian sister Fiat 3.2 percent are in the authority's statistics.
Since the beginning of the year, Opel has increased sales by a good 39 percent - the market, on the other hand, has grown by almost 15 percent.
Only Smart and Tesla did better than Opel.
Opel Germany boss Andreas Marx emphasizes that the Corsa has been the best-selling small car among new cars in Germany for months.
He has sold 26,340 times in this country - an increase of 48 percent.
"We want to build on this in the further course of the year and continue our growth path."