In October, the French car market fell by 30.7% compared to the previous year.
The fall reached 37.3% compared to October 2019 before the pandemic, according to raw figures from the Committee of French Automobile Manufacturers (CCFA).
After a better start to the year 2021 than that of 2020, car sales returned to the red in June.
"The effects of the slowdown in orders and delivery delays linked to the shortage of semiconductors are increasing,"
notes the firm AAAdata.
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Stellantis retains its leading position, with 34.5% of the passenger car market.
But the group resulting from the merger of PSA (Peugeot, Citroën, DS and Opel) and FCA (Fiat, Jeep, Alfa Romeo…) lost nearly 4 points of market share under the effect of registrations falling by 37.6% over one year.
Those of its rival Renault (25.7% market share) plunged 38.1%.
A little less than at Volkswagen (40.1%), the leading foreign group with 10.1% market share.
Conversely, registrations of the Romanian brand Dacia, a subsidiary of Renault, increased by 2.8%.
A total of 118,521 new passenger cars were put on the roads of France in October, against 171,050 in October 2020.
Over the first ten months of the year, the French market is up 3.1%, with 1.37 million new cars registered.
There are only 21.7% of diesel vehicles (-9.4 points in one year), while the share of hybrids has risen to 25.4% (+12 points) and that of electric vehicles to 8.9 % (+2.9 points).