Have you bought a new vehicle this year? How many suckers did you leave?

Three concepts shaped the Israeli car market in 2019: hybrid, crossover and fleet. But even through these, underground changes are starting to emerge, sailing discounts, parallel imports and green luxury car bonuses

A world as customary, but beneath the surface there are changes

Sales Summary 2019 (Photo: Carzon, screenshot)

The amount of new cars sold in Israel is an insignificant figure, unless you are car importers or their shareholders. But the changes the market is undergoing and the secret deals that you are not aware of are interesting. This year's Karzon site summary brings up some very interesting insights into what happened here this year, and perhaps predicts the changes we will see in the years to come. In addition, thanks to the site's close monitoring of new car dealerships for importers, equivalent imports and 0km deals, you can for the first time get a full and true prospect of the new car prices compared to the 0km deals.

Let's start with the usual data, the Israeli car market of 2019 is also declining this year and closes with 260,730 vehicles. From that point of view, we have returned to the market size of 2015. The composition of the top car brands has not changed either, these are still three Toyota, Hyundai and Kia manufacturers that hold the top spot when the Japanese manufacturer gained momentum last year and finished in first place. In terms of the model mix, if in 2015 it was Kia Picanto that led the market followed by Sportage and Toyota Corolla, in 2017 Hyundai Unique breaks to the top of the list and is ousted this year by Toyota Corolla. As in the past, automotive fleets are still the biggest selling engines of the domestic market, Toyota Corolla, Hyundai Unique, Skoda Octavia, Kia Picanto and Hyundai i10 all are distinctly institutional market sales.

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Top manufacturers from 2000 to 2019

In terms of categorization, your eyes are not deceptive, this year too are the crossovers and jeeps that continue to grow and reach 46 percent of the market, with this one hybrid - Kia Niro leading sales there and Kia Sportage leading the team this year.

Incidentally, in the spirit of the decade summaries, it is interesting to see two brands and two models that were clearly dominant in the Israeli market and almost completely erased - Mazda and Ford. Which for years including the opening decade led the market and then just evaporated almost completely. Particularly noteworthy is the focus that was the car sold in Israel and then buried under the storm of the gearboxes, the rubber bands that drop to this day cause leasing company executives to seep into the word focus. Where is she today? Ford is in 26th place on the brand list, looking at MG from below and Opel from above. Again, Ford sells fewer Chinese-brand cars with only one model in supply and a brand that has replaced three importers in the past decade.

Best-selling car models 2000-2019

The cars are green, the expensive ones make a profit

One of the changes that have shaped this past year and probably the next, is all the excitement about the car market with regard to hybrid cars and plug-ins. 2019 is already a second year in which hybrid vehicles are increasing their share of all cars, reaching 21 percent. But the economically interesting figure is within those percentages, as the tax benefit earned by cars with hybrid and hybrid plug-ins ranging from 20 to 30 percent of the Canadian tax (compared to up to 83 in a regular petrol car) - has been well utilized by the luxury brands that market hybrid versions here. Invest in very attractive prices, with a value cap that easily crossed NIS 100,000. The state's counter-response has not been late, both in raising the purchase tax to 45 percent and limiting the tax benefit to a maximum of NIS 60,000.

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Sales Summary 2019 (Photo: Carzon, screenshot)

The official price is a fiction

Trend First Hand Transactions 0 km Open to many Israelis A sales channel where they give up the status code of digit 0 in the "previous owners" section, but receive a significant discount on the price of the same car in the showroom. How important are the graphs in the columns below Discover all. The average discount percentage of importers in the various offers was 7 percent of the price list, however, when purchasing on the 0 km channel the discount was an average of 12.5 percent of the official price. The data refers only to new cars and not to those sold on this channel within 12 months of their arrival in Israel. In addition, these assumptions must also be taken into account that the loss of the hand also means selling the car further. What does that mean for you? There is quite a bit of debate and debate when you come to buy a new car for a discount.

Dealer at the importer or 0 km deal?

Sales Summary 2019 (Photo: Carzon, screenshot)

Parallel import: Toyota Corolla as a test

One of the great tidings of Minister Israel Katz's tenure in the Ministry of Transport and with the spirit of social protest was a promise to reduce all the dubious pleasure of owning a car in Israel, from replacement prices to new cars. But since the bulk of the blackmail of drivers does not come from the Ministry of Transport, but rather from the taxation of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Transport has found another solution - facilitating the procedures for parallel imports of car brands marketed by the exclusive importers so far. This is how a number of parallel importers are marketed, including Jeep, Toyota, Ford and others. How far did this import bus affect? So far not much, but one car this year may draw a turn.

For fleets, for private use, the new Toyota Corolla shows dominance in the family segment and in general

Comparative: Toyota Corolla, Skoda Octavia and Renault Grand Coupe (Photo: Rami Gilboa, Nir Ben Tovim)

Toyota Corolla is the best-selling car this year in Israel. It is also a car imported into Israel with parallel imports by several importers. Toyota Corolla's numbers analysis provides a glimpse into the impact of these imports. To test this, the analysis focuses on the sedan configuration, which is the only one that comes in parallel imports.
Of the approximately 17 corulas sold in 2019, approximately 13,000 were from the sedan configuration. Of those cars, about 36 percent of which are 4,700 cars were sold to the private market. Segmentation into a private and institutional market is based on the deduction of the basic SUN finish level (designed for fleet vehicles) from all cars.

Of those 4,700 cars sold to private customers, 1,500 came on the corresponding import channel, equivalent to 32.7 percent. Carzon's price comparison system that collects data on car sales and new car prices indicates that, compared to similar finish levels, Toyota Corolla's prices of parallel imports are low at between NIS 7,000 and NIS 10,000.

Last and interesting point, Toyota is indeed the best-selling car brand in Israel in 2019, but the gap between it and Hyundai in the second place is about 220 cars, that is, if personal imports were not Hyundai's first place.

Sales Summary 2019 (Photo: Carzon, screenshot)

About Carzon

Karzon was established to make the Israeli car market transparent, and to give first-time buyers objective information on the true prices of new vehicles. Carzon scans the publications in the automotive sector including discounts and promotions and compares prices. The system presents a detailed, effective and up-to-date snapshot of buying a new vehicle and a first-hand vehicle with 0 km, helping to ensure proper management and smarter acquisition.

Table: Super sexual

Sales Summary 2019 (Photo: Carzon, screenshot)

The table: Family types

Sales Summary 2019 (Photo: Carzon, screenshot)

Table: Family

Sales Summary 2019 (Photo: Carzon, screenshot)

Table: Large families

Sales Summary 2019 (Photo: Carzon, screenshot)

Table: Minivans

Sales Summary 2019 (Photo: Carzon, screenshot)

Table: Jeep and crossovers small

Sales Summary 2019 (Photo: Carzon, screenshot)

Table: Compact crossovers

Sales Summary 2019 (Photo: Carzon, screenshot)

SUVs, Jeeps and Medium Crossovers

Sales Summary 2019 (Photo: Carzon, screenshot)

Table: SUVs, jeeps and large crossovers

Sales Summary 2019 (Photo: Carzon, screenshot)

Jeeps, SUVs and premium crossovers

Sales Summary 2019 (Photo: Carzon, screenshot)

Table: Sporting

Sales Summary 2019 (Photo: Carzon, screenshot)

Table: Pickups up to 3.5 tons

Sales Summary 2019 (Photo: Carzon, screenshot)

From now on, a loan of up to NIS 100,000 for each purpose and the customers of all banks is the same

Subject to the terms as Financing Ltd / Diners Financing Ltd and compliance with the underwriting conditions. Failure to pay the loan may result in a charge on arrears and execution proceedings

Table: Small pickups and commercials

Sales Summary 2019 (Photo: Carzon, screenshot)