Mitsubishi Motors Europe boosted 2005 sales 17.7% to 265,685 units in a market off 0.7%. This was the automaker’s second successive year of growth on the continent and ahead of its 260,000 unit target.

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Of 36 distributors, the Russian one was the most successful with sales up 84% to 55,148 units and becoming the first MME unit to sell more than 50,000 units during a calendar year.


The Lancer sedan drove MME’s success in Russia. During the year it won a local car of the year award and was also the top-selling foreign car, outselling the locally-assembled Hyundai Accent, Daewoo Nexia and Ford Focus.


Germany and the UK are MME’s second and third largest markets. Germany also saw a historical high with sales up 22% to 43,263 units thanks largely to the success of the Dutch-built Colt range (22,000 registrations and 4% market share), and the regained confidence of German customers in Mitsubishi Motors after the DaimlerChrysler withdrawal of April 2004.


In a tough UK market off 5 %, Mitsubishi Motors posted a new vehicle sales record of 38,941 units for 2005, up 9% on the previous year. Achieving its fifth consecutive year of growth, Mitsubishi Motors UK has seen a 112% growth in sales over the past five years.

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Sales in Turkey rose 31% to 7,241 due to strong demand for light commercials while Ukraine sales were up 23% to 7,181.


Sales in were up 11% to 6,415 and Israel was up 6% to 5,918.


Latvia sales of 1,154, though relatively small in volume, rose 64 %.


In the west, Italian sales rose 6% to 16,050 units while Swiss volume was up 15% to 5,262 units.


The Netherlands – the automaker’s home country in Europe saw 8,745 sales, up 4%,  and sales in Denmark were up 23 % to 3,177.