With a bit of a delay we’ll start with the European segment analyses for the first three quarters of 2016, starting of course with the minicar segment. After growing 5% in the first half of the year, sales of Europe’s smallest cars have dropped in Q3, reducing the year-to-date growth rate to just 1%. The slowdown of the Volkswagen Up! and the Fiat Panda are largely responsible for this, and this has enabled the Fiat 500 to outsell its sibling in Q3 and threaten it for the segment’s full year top position which it has held since 2013. The third place of the Up! appears unthreatened, but the Renault Twingo has dropped from 4th place in the first half to 6th place after nine months after being outsold by the Toyota Aygo and Hyundai i10. The latter of these two was the #3 seller of the segment in Q3, even topping the little VW. The Lancia Ypsilon holds on to its 7th place, but all five of its closest challengers in places 8 to 12 were within 150 sales of each other in Q3 and all outsold the Ypsilon this quarter.
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The Kia Picanto has reclaimed 12th place from the Opel/Vauxhall Adam and the Skoda Citigo outsold the Smart Forfour by a significant margin in Q3 and looks set to overtake it by the end of the year, and the same can be said of the Suzuki Celerio vs. the Mitsubishi Space Star.
| Minicar segment | 2016 Q3 | 2015 Q3 | Change | |
| 1 | Fiat Panda | 145.799 | 129.156 | 13% |
| 2 | Fiat 500 | 145.123 | 141.605 | 2% |
| 3 | Volkswagen Up! | 74.667 | 81.713 | -9% |
| 4 | Toyota Aygo | 66.169 | 66.531 | -1% |
| 5 | Hyundai i10 | 66.142 | 67.166 | -2% |
| 6 | Renault Twingo | 64.757 | 72.214 | -10% |
| 7 | Lancia/Chrysler Ypsilon | 52.529 | 46.226 | 14% |
| 8 | Peugeot 108 | 51.166 | 54.597 | -6% |
| 9 | Smart Fortwo | 50.998 | 41.191 | 24% |
| 10 | Citroën C1 | 50.398 | 50.345 | 0% |
| 11 | Opel Karl / Vauxhall Viva | 47.509 | 15.579 | 205% |
| 12 | Kia Picanto | 43.117 | 42.603 | 1% |
| 13 | Opel/Vauxhall Adam | 40.638 | 43.807 | -7% |
| 14 | Smart Forfour | 29.163 | 30.929 | -6% |
| 15 | Skoda Citigo | 28.941 | 30.348 | -5% |
| 16 | Mitsubishi Space Star | 22.003 | 23.186 | -5% |
| 17 | Suzuki Celerio | 21.466 | 19.176 | 12% |
| 18 | Ford Ka | 20.750 | 38.642 | -46% |
| 19 | Seat Mii | 15.653 | 18.579 | -16% |
| 20 | Peugeot iOn | 1.472 | 1.027 | 43% |
| 21 | Citroën C-Zero | 1.051 | 671 | 57% |
| 22 | Citroën E-Mehari | 527 | 0 | New |
| 23 | Mitsubishi i-MiEV | 393 | 586 | -33% |
| 24 | Toyota iQ | 172 | 123 | 40% |
| 25 | Mitsubishi Attrage | 156 | 312 | -50% |
| 26 | Chevrolet Spark | 95 | 453 | -79% |
| 27 | Opel/Vauxhall Agila | 14 | 2.033 | -99% |
| 28 | Suzuki Splash | 10 | 2.511 | -100% |
| 29 | Peugeot 107 | 4 | 84 | -95% |
| 30 | Suzuki Alto | 4 | 5.643 | -100% |
| 31 | Tata Indica | 3 | 43 | -93% |
| Segment total | 1.040.889 | 1.027.079 | 1% |
Also check out the minicar segment in the US where the Chevrolet Spark (the US version of the Karl/Viva) takes the lead from the Mini Cooper.
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