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Japanese Toyota is by far the most popular passenger car in Finland. There are about 390,000 Toyota-branded passenger cars on the road. The number is about 14 percent of all passenger cars in Finland.
If you put all the Toyotas in Finland in a row, the line would easily stretch along the road network from Helsinki to the northernmost corner of Norway, Nordkapp.
The next most popular car brand is the German Volkswagen, of which there are almost 300,000 in Finland. The third is the pride of Sweden, Volvo, which has since passed to Chinese ownership. There are almost 250,000 Volvos on Finnish roads.
The figures are determined by the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency From Traficom’s statistics.
At the The map below shows how Toyota dominates as the most popular car brand in the majority of Finnish municipalities. Volvo has succeeded in “capturing” a slice of the west coast, Volkswagen a few municipalities in southern Finland.
Only in Karkkila and Sastamala is another brand the most common.
Toyota reach number one also with new, in the number of first-time registered passenger cars. The Japanese manufacturer has been at the top of the first registrations for six years in a row. The last time another brand took the top spot in new cars was in 2016. Then it was Volkswagen.
If the comparison of new cars is extended more precisely to model-specific, the last time in 2019 a car model other than Toyota was the most popular. At that time, the Skoda Octavia reached the top of the first registered cars.
In the current year, among the first registered cars by the end of September, Toyota models have the top three. Toyota Corolla, Yaris and Rav4 are followed by Kia Ceed on the list.
Toyota is the world’s largest car manufacturer in terms of sales, but it has started mass production of electric cars more cautiously than many of its competitors. Multi the investor has considered Toyota’s electric car strategy too slow. On the other hand, it has invested heavily in hybrid cars.
The lack of Toyota fully electric cars is also visible in Finnish statistics. It is really far behind the competitors, whether the measure is all the electric cars moving on Finnish roads or the registrations of new electric cars.
Among all registered electric cars in Finland, Tesla is number one, ahead of Volkswagen. There are currently more than 10,000 Teslas on Finnish roads, which is about a quarter of all electric cars in the country. There are more than 5,700 Volkswagen electric cars in Finland. Toyota’s number of fully electric cars remains modestly at forty.
In the first registered electric cars, Tesla already lost its top spot to Volkswagen last year. Volkkari seems to become the best-selling new electric car this year as well.
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