Top 25 best selling cars of 1979

unkel

35 years ago...

List is from the Netherlands, but the ranking would have been similar enough here, with a few British cars I guess. Note there is only 4 cars from outside of Europe (all Japanese):

1: Opel Kadett – 36.103
2: Volkswagen Golf – 27.551
3: Ford Taunus – 27.354
4: Opel Ascona – 25.153
5: Datsun Cherry – 16.460
6: Opel Rekord – 15.771
7: Peugeot 504 – 14.932
8: Ford Escort – 12.720
9: Ford Fiesta 12.295
10: Volvo 340 – 12.231
11: Peugeot 305 – 12.103
12: Renault 5 – 11.849
13: Renault 18 – 11.597
14: Citroën GS – 11.156
15: Renault 4 – 10.949
16: Mazda 323 – 10.386
17: Honda Civic – 9.771
18: Honda Accord – 8.527
19: Fiat Ritmo – 8.125
20: Talbot Simca 1510 – 8.097
21: Talbot Simca Horizon – 7.975
22: Fiat 127 – 7.895
23: Renault 14 – 7.885
24: Mercedes W123 – 7.869
25: Citroën 2CV/Dyane – 7.610

corktina

Interesting but I'd say Irish figures would be way different.
For instance, the Ford Taunus aka Cortina was much slower to sell than the Cortina , so the Cortina would be higher than third, and the Escort and Fiesta were world beaters especially in Fordy Ireland and would have been higher,
The Peugeot 504 ranked 7th, not in Ireland I feel, maybe they were common as taxis on the Continent.
8000 Talbot Horizons? NO way here, I brought one over from the UK and no one knew what it was. The Avenger would have easily outsold it here, but doesn't feature at all.