bobojay5 wrote:
I was going to say, where did that 98% figure for MB RV's in Europe come from. The vast majority of them are Ducatos.
Not to mention that the Ducato sells way more units as a whole than the Sprinter
I don't think anyone has 98% of the market for RV platforms in Europe.
Who leads is going to depend on what year you are looking at, because since the 1980's Renault, FIAT and Ford have been leap-frogging each other in platform updates and market share. It also depends on what country; e.g. Transit often leads as the building platform in the U.K. even when Renault or FIAT dominate on the continent. Also, VW has a bigger (but still small) share in Germany than they do in France, Italy, Spain, or the UK, and French buyers will take their Ducato with a Citroen badge, and that just doesn't play in Italy.
Last year for which I have EU sales statistics, 2009, motorhome platform distribution was 63.5% FIAT, 18.7% Ford, 7.3% Citroen (a badge engineered FIAT), 4.5% Mercedes, 3.5% Renault, 1.8% VW. That included van conversions, and motorhomes equivalent to our C's and A's.
This was from an article in "L'essential du Camping-Car" (April-May-June 2010) about the new Renault Master, speculating that it might be able to recover market share from FIAT. The point being that before introduction the current version of the Ducato, Renault led the market with the Master, though not as dominantly as FIAT is doing currently.
