Tahiti 2017. Auto sales up 36%

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tahiti vehicles
Peugeot-2008-2017

Tahiti vehicles market is a small entity in the French Polynesia. Thanks to the growing economy, driven by tourism, market is growing fast and in the 2017 increased 39% with over 6.000 sales. Peugeot if market leader.

Tahiti is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity (sometimes referred to as an overseas country) of France. The capital of French Polynesia, Papeete, is located on the northwest coast of Tahiti. After the establishment of the CEP (Centre d’Experimentation du Pacifique) in 1963, the standard of living in French Polynesia increased considerably and many Polynesians abandoned traditional activities and emigrated to the urban centre of Pape’ete. Even though the standard of living is elevated (due mainly to French foreign direct investment), the economy is reliant on imports. At the cessation of CEP activities, France signed the Progress Pact with Tahiti to compensate the loss of financial resources and assist in education and tourism with an investment of about US$150 million a year from the beginning of 2006. Actually there are over 187.000 people living the archipelago.

The automotive sector is small and limited to few island. Thanks to the recent economic boom, the market grew up in recent year with 2017 hitting the best performance at 6.240 sales (+37.9%).

Sales 2012Sales 2013Sales 2014Sales 2015Sales 2016Sales 2017Sales 2018 e
Car+LCV-3.4643.7373.9604.5246.2406.552
2012 Var2013 Var2014 Var2015 Var2016 Var2017 Var2018 var e
Car+LCV7,9%6,0%14,2%37,9%5,0%

Peugeot  is market leader with 747 sales (+5.2%) with 15.7% of market share, followed by Kia, Toyota and Renault.