The midsized car segment is losing market share in 2022, with a 22% decline in deliveries in the first three quarters, compared to an 11% drop for the entire market. As a result, midsized cars now make up 5.5% of the total volume, down from 6.3% in the first nine months of 2021. Midsized cars see a 19% drop in deliveries in Q3, in an overall market down 2%. Luxury models improve their share of the class by 0.5 percentage points to 67.2%.
If the Tesla Model 3 topped the ranking in 2021 and the first quarter of 2022 before dropping to 7th place in Q2, it’s back in third place in Q3, despite a 53% drop in deliveries. The Model 3 manages to hold on to its Year-to-date second place, but is under serious threat from the Mercedes-Benz C-Class which benefits from its new generation to increase Q3 deliveries by 45%. The C-Class is now up 21% so far this year but so far unable to threaten the class leader BMW 3-Series. Former class leader Volkswagen Passat and its sibling Skoda Superb are relatively stable in Q3, with sales down 2% and up 1% respectively. Both are still down year-to-date, though. Their luxury stablemate Audi A4 gains share as it’s down 19% so far this year, while the A5 keeps its share stable. That makes the Volkswagen Arteon the best performing midsized nameplate of the VW Group at +9% year-to-date and +27% in Q3. BMW doesn’t just hold the top selling nameplate of the segment, it absolutely dominates with a share of 24.2% for its three nameplates combined. The 4-Series is up 31% in 2022 and its all-electric version i4 is up to 11th place. When combined, the 4-Series would be in 5th place overall. The top-10 is completed by the Volvo S60/V60, which lose over half of their sales on last year, but the Peugeot 508 (-42%), Opel/Vauxhall Insignia (-47%) and Ford Mondeo (-53%) don’t perform much better. In fact, the latter has been discontinued in Q3 and is already outsold by the weirdly shaped newcomer Citroën C5 X year-to-date. Speaking of weirdly shaped, we welcome the Hyundai Ioniq 6 to the charts at #28 with its first 4 registrations.
| Midsized segment | 2022 Q1-Q3 | 2021 Q1-Q3 | Change | 2022 share | 2022-Q3 | Change | |
| 1 | BMW 3-series | 63.532 | 95.649 | -34% | 14,3% | 19.441 | -35% |
| 2 | Tesla Model 3 | 55.909 | 99.998 | -44% | 12,5% | 15.649 | -53% |
| 3 | Mercedes-Benz C-Class | 55.051 | 45.512 | 21% | 12,4% | 17.624 | 45% |
| 4 | Volkswagen Passat | 50.244 | 69.262 | -27% | 11,3% | 14.999 | -2% |
| 5 | Audi A4 / S4 / RS4 | 40.441 | 50.004 | -19% | 9,1% | 12.506 | -15% |
| 6 | Skoda Superb | 32.204 | 36.260 | -11% | 7,2% | 8.710 | 1% |
| 7 | BMW 4-series | 31.525 | 24.006 | 31% | 7,1% | 10.698 | 26% |
| 8 | Volkswagen Arteon | 17.580 | 16.162 | 9% | 3,9% | 6.400 | 27% |
| 9 | Audi A5 / S5 / RS5 | 17.464 | 22.438 | -22% | 3,9% | 5.726 | -19% |
| 10 | Volvo S60/V60 | 17.514 | 36.939 | -53% | 3,9% | 3.835 | -57% |
| 11 | BMW i4 | 12.795 | 186 | 6779% | 2,9% | 5.125 | 2655% |
| 12 | Peugeot 508 | 11.726 | 20.242 | -42% | 2,6% | 3.665 | -40% |
| 13 | Opel/Vauxhall Insignia | 8.365 | 15.676 | -47% | 1,9% | 2.678 | -53% |
| 14 | Citroën C5 X | 6.167 | 42 | 14583% | 1,4% | 3.164 | 7433% |
| 15 | Ford Mondeo | 5.197 | 11.081 | -53% | 1,2% | 366 | -91% |
| 16 | Subaru Legacy / Outback | 4.448 | 4.731 | -6% | 1,0% | 1.367 | -14% |
| 17 | Alfa Romeo Giulia | 4.264 | 4.597 | -7% | 1,0% | 1.360 | -11% |
| 18 | Toyota Camry | 4.244 | 6.703 | -37% | 1,0% | 1.255 | -39% |
| 19 | Mazda6 | 2.757 | 4.100 | -33% | 0,6% | 937 | -32% |
| 20 | Renault Talisman | 2.199 | 4.463 | -51% | 0,5% | 205 | -80% |
| 21 | Kia Stinger | 673 | 996 | -32% | 0,2% | 269 | 25% |
| 22 | Jaguar XE | 484 | 1.800 | -73% | 0,1% | 70 | -83% |
| 23 | Toyota Mirai | 446 | 503 | -11% | 0,1% | 187 | 3% |
| 24 | Genesis G70 | 330 | 46 | 617% | 0,1% | 106 | 130% |
| 25 | Xpeng P5 | 19 | 0 | New | 0,0% | 2 | New |
| 26 | Lexus RC | 13 | 91 | -86% | 0,0% | 4 | -73% |
| 27 | Lexus IS | 7 | 535 | -99% | 0,0% | 3 | -95% |
| 28 | Hyundai Ioniq 6 | 4 | 0 | New | 0,0% | 4 | New |
| 29 | Kia Optima | 1 | 423 | -100% | 0,0% | 0 | -100% |
| 30 | Subaru Levorg | 0 | 359 | -100% | 0,0% | 0 | -100% |
| Segment total | 445.603 | 572.804 | -22% | 136.355 | -19% |
Car sales statistics are from the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland.
Sources: Manufacturers, ANDC, JATO Dynamics.