I found VW Golf is the most sold second hand car in switzerland by far.
It's also the top listing in 16 cantons, being 2nd in almost all other ones.
Interestingly, the the Porsche 911 takes top spot in a few cantons. Overall the second most sold car is the Skoda Octavia however.
I gathered the data from the main Swiss Car Market Places as well as Facebook Marketplace and BFS. This is over the last 6 month.
This includes private and car dealership listings.
There likely is a bias in the smaller cantons due to the dealership and it doesn't have to imply that the cars sold there are bought from people living in that canton.
For example I bought my car in Biel, but I live in Zurich.
I have the new registrations and ownership changes from BFS and I'll add that too in a next step.
If you have any interesting data sources you'd like me to include and compare, I'd be grateful for that :-).

Canton Brand Model Avg Income
Aargau VW GOLF 34041
Appenzell Ausserrhoden VW GOLF 32853
Appenzell Innerrhoden MERCEDES-BENZ C 220 36046
Appenzell Innerrhoden SKODA KODIAQ 36046
Basel-Landschaft VW GOLF 39179
Basel-Stadt FIAT 500 42024
Bern VW GOLF 31293
Freiburg VW GOLF 30093
Genf PORSCHE 911 38939
Glarus VW GOLF 29164
Graubünden SKODA OCTAVIA 33289
Jura VW TIGUAN 27227
Lichtenstein VW GOLF nan
Luzern VW GOLF 33184
Neuenburg PEUGEOT 208 28959
Neuenburg VW GOLF 28959
Nidwalden FORD RANGER 46179
Obwalden FORD KUGA 38999
Schaffhausen VW GOLF 32212
Schwyz PORSCHE 911 52987
Solothurn SKODA OCTAVIA 32759
St. Gallen VW GOLF 30394
Tessin VW GOLF 32865
Thurgau VW GOLF 32298
Uri BMW X3 29405
Waadt VW GOLF 35533
Wallis VW GOLF 29679
Zug PORSCHE 911 61269
Zürich VW GOLF 41336





by obolli

6 comments

  1. Skoda Octavia in Graubünden. We call it Puuraferrari, and i think it’s beautiful.

  3. No toyota because you don’t sell your toyota. You buy one and keep it till you die so that your kids can inherit it.

  4. I understand why the 911 is very popular, but man there is LOT of them.. I would prob choose something else for that money. Not that I have this problem now

  5. I just love Zug and Schwyz for that (and low taxes ofc).

  6. I learned from a Porsche-dealer that the typical Porsche driver immediately books the latest models when they are announced, since they always want the newest. Somehow they need to get rid of their old cars apparently.

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