France’s best-selling cars ranking in 2020 sees the Renault Clio on top ahead of its archenemy the Peugeot 208 by nearly 100 units. The Peugeot 3008 fell in 7th position, while the Renault Zoe boomed 98.8% and entered the leaderboard.
In 2020, the Renault Clio overtook the previous leader by near 100 units, with 95.637 sales (+19.4%), outpacing the Peugeot 208. Indeed, the 208 has registered 95.514 units (-9.5%).
Launched in 1990, the Renault Clio just arrived at the fifth generation. The new generation started with a market share stable since 2015 between 5.5% and 5.8%, aiming to recover in the next years the 7.0% did in 2013 when the fourth generation was launched.
The third place was taken by the Peugeot 2008 -up 4 spots-, selling 66.927 units (+8.4%), followed by the Citroen C3 with 58545 (-27.5%) -down 2 spots-, and the Renault Captur -up 1 spot- with 56.075 (-18.2%), overtaking the Dacia Sandero with 53.404 (-23%).
In seventh place, we find the Peugeot 3008 – down 3 spots – with 45.243 units sold (-38.5%), followed by the Renault Twingo with 43.116 (-15%), the outstanding Renault Zoe -up 21 spots- with 37.409 sales (+98.8%), and finally the Peugeot 308 -down 2 spots- with 36.578 (-35.2%).
Tables with sales figures
In the tables below we report sales for the Top 50 models.
