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United Kingdom · 2020

How is SEAT doing in United Kingdom?

SEAT accounts for 2.8% of new car registrations in United Kingdom in 2020, with 45,364 cars.

Registrations 2020

45,364

−34.0% vs 2019

Market share

2.8%

−0.2 pp vs 2019

Rank

#16

#14 in 2019

Average CO₂

138g/km

WLTP test cycle

Electric, hybrid or combustion?

Are all new cars electric?

Understand the powertrains

Fully electric cars account for 0.6% of this brand’s registrations in the selected market and period.

Share of new registrations in United Kingdom, 2020.

Plug-in cars

2.6%

1,159 new cars

+2.6 pp vs previous year

Non-plug-in cars

97.4%

44,205 new cars

−2.6 pp vs previous year

Plug-in cars can be charged from the grid: fully electric cars and plug-in hybrids. Split by powertrain:

Combustion engine

97.1%

44,048 new cars

−2.9 pp vs previous year

Plug-in hybrid

1.9%

868 new cars

+1.9 pp vs previous year

Battery electric

0.6%

291 new cars

+0.6 pp vs previous year

Hybrid (incl. mild hybrids)

0.3%

157 new cars

+0.3 pp vs previous year

Fully electric cars and plug-in hybrids are separate categories. Petrol and diesel can also power hybrids; powertrain and fuel are different classifications. Hybrids include mild hybrids, and the line against combustion cars differs between countries, so compare hybrid shares within a country rather than between countries.

How has SEAT developed?

Registrations per year

Number of cars, United Kingdom

Lighter bars are provisional. Some periods have incomplete coverage, see the table.

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Period SEAT
2010 32,968
2011 36,162
2012 38,812
2013 45,307
2014 53,481
2015 47,664
2016 47,557
2017 56,110
2018 62,820
2019 68,757
2020 45,364
2021 incomplete –
2022 incomplete –
2023 incomplete –
2024 incomplete –
2025 provisional incomplete –

Market share per year

Percent of registrations, United Kingdom

Dashed lines are provisional. Some periods have incomplete coverage, see the table.

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Period SEAT
2010 1.6%
2011 1.9%
2012 1.9%
2013 2.0%
2014 2.2%
2015 1.8%
2016 1.8%
2017 2.2%
2018 2.7%
2019 3.0%
2020 2.8%
2021 incomplete –
2022 incomplete –
2023 incomplete –
2024 incomplete –
2025 provisional incomplete –

Position by market

2020, all reporting countries

SEAT by market
Country Rank Registrations vs previous year Share Share change
Germany 9 114,433 −17.3% 4.0% +0.1 pp
Spain 3 68,865 −38.4% 7.5% −0.7 pp
United Kingdom 16 45,364 −34.0% 2.8% −0.2 pp
France 17 28,292 −26.4% 1.6% −0.1 pp
Italy 20 22,153 −17.4% 1.6% +0.2 pp
Austria 3 15,786 −20.2% 6.4% +0.4 pp
Netherlands 15 9,036 −2.1% 2.6% +0.2 pp
Poland 17 8,725 −29.8% 2.2% −0.1 pp
Belgium 18 8,375 −22.0% 1.9% 0.0 pp
Sweden 10 8,192 −10.9% 2.9% +0.2 pp
Portugal 7 7,051 −37.6% 4.9% −0.2 pp
Denmark 17 4,477 −21.6% 2.3% −0.3 pp
Czechia 13 4,306 −35.0% 2.2% −0.5 pp
Ireland 11 3,355 −17.9% 3.8% +0.3 pp
Finland 16 1,628 −32.6% 1.7% −0.5 pp
Greece 17 1,626 −48.3% 2.0% −0.7 pp
Slovenia 12 1,623 −33.3% 3.0% −0.4 pp
Hungary 20 1,441 −36.0% 1.1% −0.5 pp
Slovakia 14 1,338 −27.3% 1.8% 0.0 pp
Croatia 12 1,161 −34.8% 3.3% +0.4 pp
Luxembourg 14 1,055 −30.9% 2.4% −0.4 pp
Norway 25 975 +134.4% 0.7% +0.4 pp
Romania 22 618 −47.9% 0.5% −0.2 pp
Lithuania 18 343 +51.1% 0.9% +0.4 pp
Estonia 17 287 −39.2% 1.6% −0.2 pp
Malta 9 212 −43.2% 4.8% 0.0 pp
Cyprus 16 187 −15.0% 1.9% +0.1 pp
Bulgaria 21 150 −62.5% 0.7% −0.5 pp
Latvia 19 136 −49.4% 1.1% −0.5 pp

Top models

Variants are grouped into model families

  1. LEON 31.3%
  2. ARONA 24.0%
  3. IBIZA 18.5%
  4. ATECA 17.7%
  5. TARRACO 4.7%
  6. ALHAMBRA 1.7%

Largest brands in United Kingdom

2020

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These are new passenger car registrations, not sales contracts or used cars.

Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), CC BY 4.0. New passenger car registrations, 2020.