{"id":247574,"date":"2026-08-13T13:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/247574\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:08:07","slug":"car-sales-in-iraq-plunge-28-in-h1-2026-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/247574\/","title":{"rendered":"Car sales in Iraq plunge 28%+ in H1 2026 &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-08-13T12:25:04+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Baghdad<\/p>\n<p>Iraq\u2019s car market contracted sharply in the first half<br \/>\nof 2026, with sales falling 28.6% year-on-year to 59,264 vehicles, according to<br \/>\nautomotive market research platform Focus2move.<\/p>\n<p>Kia remained the country\u2019s largest-selling brand with<br \/>\na 28% market share, despite a 27.8% drop in sales. Toyota ranked second with<br \/>\n22% of the market as its sales fell 24%, while Nissan placed third after a<br \/>\n13.3% decline.<\/p>\n<p>MG ranked fourth with an 8.9% share despite sales<br \/>\nfalling 31.6%, while Jetour climbed to fifth with 8.4% after recording 29.2%<br \/>\ngrowth.<\/p>\n<p>Among other leading brands, Hyundai recorded the<br \/>\nsteepest decline, with sales down 69.7%, while Great Wall grew 6.9%.<\/p>\n<p>The electric vehicle segment suffered an even steeper<br \/>\ncontraction, with sales dropping 72%. BYD led the segment with a 48.3% share,<br \/>\nfollowed by Toyota at 43.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Sales grew strongly between 2021 and 2024, reaching<br \/>\n158,076 vehicles in 2024, before the market reversed course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-08-13T12:25:04+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraq\u2019s car market contracted sharply in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,9818,68814,94,207,24931],"class_list":["post-247574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-breaking","tag-car","tag-car-sales-in-iraq-plunge-28-in-h1-2026","tag-iraq","tag-markets","tag-sales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117088361375272784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}