Citroen sales are up 7-fold year-on-year in Uruguay.
The Uruguayan new light vehicle market is up 16.4% year-on-year in January to a round 3,800 sales. Chevrolet (+29.1%) beats the market to reach a very strong 18.6% share vs. 14.1% over the Full Year 2022 when it also lead. Suzuki (+52.8%) does even better to 14.5% of the market vs. 9.7% but Volkswagen (+14.4%) can’t keep up, albeit managing a similar market share as in FY2022 at 14.4%. Renault (-21.3%) is in trouble at #4 whereas Citroen (+571.4%) is up 7-fold on its year-ago volume and lodges by far the largest year-on-year gain in the Top 10. Peugeot (+40.2%) also shines just below. There are 8 Chinese carmakers in the Top 20, led by GWM (+347.4%) up spectacularly as are Jetour (+146.9%), JAC (+610%), BYD (+165.4%), Changan (+200%), Victory (+230.8%) and Karry (+153.3%).
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Full January 2023 Top 47 all brands ranking below.
Uruguay January 2023 – brands:
| Pos | Brand | Jan-23 | % | /22 | Dec | FY22 |
| 1 | Chevrolet | 705 | 18.6% | 29.1% | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Suzuki | 550 | 14.5% | 52.8% | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | Volkswagen | 437 | 11.5% | 14.4% | 4 | 2 |
| 4 | Renault | 295 | 7.8% | -21.3% | 3 | 3 |
| 5 | Citroen | 282 | 7.4% | 571.4% | 7 | 10 |
| 6 | Peugeot | 230 | 6.1% | 40.2% | 5 | 8 |
| 7 | Hyundai | 210 | 5.5% | -44.4% | 6 | 4 |
| 8 | Toyota | 132 | 3.5% | -13.2% | 9 | 7 |
| 9 | Fiat | 104 | 2.7% | -36.2% | 8 | 5 |
| 10 | GWM | 85 | 2.2% | 347.4% | 17 | 17 |
| 11 | Jetour | 79 | 2.1% | 146.9% | 26 | 14 |
| 12 | JAC | 71 | 1.9% | 610.0% | 24 | 23 |
| 13 | BYD | 69 | 1.8% | 165.4% | 11 | 12 |
| 14 | Changan | 54 | 1.4% | 200.0% | 20 | 22 |
| 15 | Chery | 53 | 1.4% | -10.2% | 12 | 11 |
| 16 | Nissan | 47 | 1.2% | -75.1% | 10 | 9 |
| 17 | Victory | 43 | 1.1% | 230.8% | 14 | 24 |
| 18 | Ford | 42 | 1.1% | 68.0% | 13 | 13 |
| 19 | Karry | 38 | 1.0% | 153.3% | 39 | 25 |
| 20 | BMW | 36 | 0.9% | -5.3% | 22 | 21 |
| 21 | Geely | 34 | 0.9% | -34.6% | 25 | 16 |
| 22 | Mercedes | 31 | 0.8% | 10.7% | 16 | 18 |
| 23 | Mitsubishi | 30 | 0.8% | 900.0% | 28 | 28 |
| 24 | DongFeng (DFSK) | 22 | 0.6% | 0.0% | 18 | 19 |
| 25 | Audi | 16 | 0.4% | -23.8% | 27 | 26 |
| 26 | Kia | 14 | 0.4% | 27.3% | 21 | 31 |
| 27 | Honda | 13 | 0.3% | 62.5% | 15 | 15 |
| 28 | XEV | 12 | 0.3% | new | 30 | 35 |
| 29 | Jeep | 9 | 0.2% | -70.0% | 19 | 20 |
| 30 | Leap Motor | 9 | 0.2% | new | – | – |
| 31 | Subaru | 6 | 0.2% | 50.0% | 33 | 32 |
| 32 | Volvo | 5 | 0.1% | -28.6% | 35 | 30 |
| 33 | Mini | 5 | 0.1% | 0.0% | 36 | 33 |
| 34 | Maxus | 4 | 0.1% | new | 38 | 49 |
| 35 | Bestune | 4 | 0.1% | n/a | – | 54 |
| 36 | Opel | 3 | 0.1% | -66.7% | 34 | 29 |
| 37 | Foton | 3 | 0.1% | n/a | 43 | 41 |
| 38 | JMC | 3 | 0.1% | n/a | 47 | 36 |
| 39 | Haval | 3 | 0.1% | 200.0% | – | 52 |
| 40 | Kaiyi | 2 | 0.1% | new | – | – |
| 41 | Land Rover | 2 | 0.1% | n/a | 44 | 45 |
| 42 | BAIC | 2 | 0.1% | n/a | 45 | 58 |
| 43 | Mobility | 2 | 0.1% | n/a | 48 | 42 |
| 44 | Seat | 1 | 0.0% | -90.9% | 40 | 34 |
| 45 | Ram | 1 | 0.0% | n/a | 49 | 44 |
| 46 | Maserati | 1 | 0.0% | n/a | – | 46 |
| 47 | Hozon | 1 | 0.0% | -50.0% | – | 47 |
Source: Autodata
