IFT CV sales still on top
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• Registrations of trucks above 3.5 tonnes hit 56,454 for the first nine months of the year — up 8.6% on JanuarySeptember 1988.
Top seller for the year so far is still Iveco Ford, with 12,865 (up from 12,809 last year). But Leyland Daf is catching up: although in second place with 12,160 for the first nine months, it scored 1,988 registrations in September compared with Iveco Ford's 1,805.
Mercedes and Volvo remain in third and fourth place (8,618 and 5,821 respectively), but Foden is growing fastest so far this year: its 1,384 registrations are 30% up on last year. Scania is up 25.6% to 3,005, and ERF rose 21.5% to 3,423.
MAN's 2,092 and Seddon Atkinson's 1,680 represented only a 1% growth. Renault's 12% growth in August was followed by a fall in September, from 408 in 1988 to 333. Its total for the year so far is 3,305; down 6% on last year.
AWD registrations have now reached 1,096 and Dennis registered 315, compared with 417 last year, during a period when its bus and coach chassis registrations grew strongly.