\nThursday, 2 October 2025, 20:38<\/p>\n
Passenger car sales in Spain grew well in September, registering a 16.4% increase compared to the same period last year, with a total of 85,167 sales recorded.<\/p>\n
The healthy pace of electrified vehicle sales is boosting the total market, which, for the first time in a month, is recording higher volumes than those recorded prior to the pandemic, surpassing the 81,746 units sold back in September 2019.<\/p>\n
For the year as a whole, the market has accumulated sales of 854,658 units, 14.8% more than in the same period last year. This maintains the year-end forecast for a closing figure of over 1.1 million passenger car sales for 2025. Despite this positive monthly figure, the growth rate slows when looking at the year-to-date figure, which is 14.8% up with 854,658 units sold.<\/p>\n
The private channel (individual buyers) is the one driving the market, with 24.4% growth and a total of 45,566 registrations in September. The business sector is also showing some strength, with 14.8% growth and 36,441 units sold. In contrast, the rentals channel is experiencing a sharp decline of 33.8% in monthly sales.<\/p>\n
Light commercial vehicle registrations increased by 18.2% in September, with 15,161 units. For the year-to-date, a total of 138,242 sales were recorded, an increase of 13.2%. Sales by channel were all up in the latest month. The business one recorded the highest increase, with 11,369 vehicles, up 23.2%. Vehicle sales for the self-employed and businesses grew by 5.5% and 4.9% respectively.<\/p>\n
In September, registrations of commercial vehicles, buses, coaches and minibuses recorded another month of positive numbers. The ninth month of 2025 saw 3,572 units, an increase of 18.2%. For the year as a whole, there were 24,227 new sales, which still represents a 7.7% decrease compared to the previous year. By vehicle type, commercial vehicles grew by 22.8%, with 2,745 new registrations and the bus and coach market achieved 827 sales, 4.9% more than in September 2024.<\/p>\n
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Breakdown of the passenger car market in Spain.<\/p>\n
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In terms of vehicle brand, Toyota consolidated its leadership in September and for the year-to-date. Renault and Volkswagen also maintained a strong position by coming next. Dacia ranked fourth for the month and sixth for the year-to-date, while Seat closed the top five for September.<\/p>\n
The ranking of best-selling models is led by the Dacia Sandero, followed by the Renault Clio and the MG ZS for the year-to-date. In September, the Sandero also led sales, closely followed by the Tesla Model 3 and the Renault Clio. The Tesla Model 3 saw a notable 30.2% increase for the month, standing out in the electric vehicle market.<\/p>\n
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Market evolution by technology and fuel type<\/p>\n
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Analysis by fuel type shows a clear move towards alternative fuels. Petrol vehicles maintain the largest share of the market (35.2%), although their year-to-date figure shows they have only grown by 1.9%. Diesel vehicles continue their decline, losing 14.5% of monthly sales and 13.2% in the year-to-date. Meanwhile, hybrids are growing significantly, with a monthly increase of 23.8%. Pure electric vehicles (BEVs) also recorded solid growth of 24.3%, while plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) rose by 4.9%.<\/p>\n
Average CO2 emissions from passenger cars sold in September fell to 97.3 grams of CO2 per kilometre travelled, 13.7% lower than the average emissions from new passenger cars sold in the same month in 2024. For 2025 as a whole, average emissions stood at 105.1 grams of CO2 per kilometre travelled, 10.3% lower than in the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 2 October 2025, 20:38 Passenger car sales in Spain grew well in September, registering a 16.4% increase…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[28978,2000,299,156297,18731,4923,3576,28885,156298,493,26395,104,5598,3114],"class_list":{"0":"post-469139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-car","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-exceed","12":"tag-figures","13":"tag-first","14":"tag-for","15":"tag-passenger","16":"tag-prepandemic","17":"tag-sales","18":"tag-september","19":"tag-spain","20":"tag-the","21":"tag-time"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}