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The Corona year 2020 was tough for German car dealers: Across Germany, sales fell by almost a fifth to 2.9 million new cars compared to the previous year.
However, there was strong growth in electric cars, as the figures from the Federal Motor Transport Authority show for the year as a whole.
The VW Golf, Germany’s best-selling new car for decades, had 136,324 new registrations in 2020 as a whole - a third less than in 2019. Despite the decline, it is by far the number one favorite among Germans.
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The king of company cars, the VW Passat, ranks second in our ranking of the most-registered new car models in 2020 - with 60,904 new registrations from January to December 2020. What is astonishing: Compared to the previous year, Passat sales even increased slightly - by 2.7 percent to be accurate.
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Third place, the VW Tiguan, is the most popular German SUV.
In 2020 as a whole, there were 60,380 new registrations in Germany.
In 2019, 87,771 vehicle documents were still issued for the Tiguan, so the sales decline for the Tiguan in the Corona year is 31.2 percent.
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While VW again secured the hat trick among the Germans' favorite cars, the Golf competitor Ford Focus managed to place fourth in the favorite car ranking with 53,378 new registrations.
The decline in sales compared to the previous year is comparatively moderate at -8.4 percent.
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The Skoda Oktavia made it into the top 5 with 53,302 new registrations. Surprisingly, even in the Corona year, the VW subsidiary only posted a decrease of 3.5 percent for its most popular model in Germany.
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Opel's small car Corsa came in 6th place with 53,199 new registrations in 2020 as a whole, so it is a hair's breadth compared to the Octavia.
And the Opel employees should also be pleased that the Corsa was even able to record a slight increase in sales of 3.9 percent compared to 2019 in the Corona year.
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The small SUV VW T-Roc based on the Polo held 7th place in 2020 with 50,822 newly issued vehicle documents. With a decrease in sales of 13.7 percent compared to 2019, the T-Roc also performed slightly above average compared to the overall market .
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BMW's 3 Series became the Corona winner in the top 10. With 47,273 new registrations, it was in 8th place, compared to 2019 BMW even sold 9.1 percent more 3 Series.
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This time the VW Polo is in 9th place, which was often in the top 5 in previous years.
The reason: from January to December 2020, the Wolfsburg-based company sold 46,174 polos across Germany, a quarter less than in 2019.
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BMW's Mini secured place 10 among the most registered cars of 2020.
The Munich-based company sold 44,152 examples of their luxury small car in the year as a whole.
That wasn't bad, but it was 12 percent less than in 2019. In contrast, sales of electric cars multiplied in the Corona year ...
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... the best-selling model with a pure battery-electric drive was Renault's Zoe, which had 30,376 new registrations in 2020 as a whole.
The sharply increased environmental premium probably also played a role here; compared to 2019, the Zoe registration numbers have more than tripled.
However: In the overall ranking of all new German car registrations, the Zoe is only in 24th place.
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Second place in the pure electric car ranking goes - surprise - to the e-version of the VW Golf.
Exactly 17,438 units of the fully battery-electric version of the VW bestseller were registered in 2020, two and a half times the number of new e-Golf registrations in 2019.
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Tesla's Model 3 is ranked third among the bestsellers in e-cars.
The e-sedan achieved exactly 15,202 new registrations in Germany in 2020 as a whole, two thirds more than in the previous year.
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VW's electric car hope ID.3, which has been delivered to customers since the second half of 2020, is already in fourth place.
In 2020 as a whole, the ID.3 had 14,492 new registrations, so it was on par with Tesla's Model 3.
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The electric version of Hyundai's compact SUV Kona just made it into the top 5 of all-battery electric car registrations.
The E-Kona held 14,008 new registrations in Germany from January to December 2020.
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