As you can see, the best seller was the VW Passat and in third place was the Skoda Superb which is a VW Group product too. Second place was achieved by Opel/Vauxhal Insignia, popular for it's reasonable price, low running cost and reliability.
The difference between the number of sales is huge, even between the first three; Skoda (3rd place) nearly sold only 1/3 compared to the Passat! After the 11th in the list (Citroen DS5), numbers drop dramatically. Even the DS5 with it's 12569 number of sales is 3.6x less then the Skoda Superb, 7.3x less then the Opel/Vauxhall Insignia and 12.2x less then the VW Passat. I've chose the DS5 for comparing because it's the least one with significant numbers.
Only the Ford Mondeo and Peugeot 508 was keeping up in sales with the Skoda Superb, who forced them to fall back to the 4th and 5th place, with a difference of only a few thousands.
The Japanese alternatives, Mazda 6 and Toyota Avensis are in the 6th and 7th place, with an approximate number of minus ten thousand compared to the Ford Mondeo and Peugeot 508. Their higher pricetag is pushing them back in this segment...
I won't mention the remaining models, because I think that the most important ones were discussed and the graph is a clear indicator for which midsize model to go for.
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