Year-on-year sales were down by as whopping 68 percent.
The global pandemic had a huge impact on new car sales in 2020, but it wasn t bad news for every automaker. Many car manufacturers still managed to end the year on a high with record sales months. Subaru s US sales, for example, were up by 16 percent in September 2020 compared to September 2019 thanks to popular models like the Forester. In December 2020, Subaru shipped 63,558 in the US, a two percent increase compared to the same month in 2019.
It s a different story in the UK, however, where Subaru s sales figures were alarmingly low in 2020. Autocar reports Subaru delivered just 951 cars in the UK last year compared to just under 3,000 the year before - that s a dramatic year-on-year drop of over 68 percent. Ouch. 2020 was a horrible year, said Subaru UK Managing Director, John Hurtig.