Ford Fiesta is the best-selling car in Europe in March

The Ford Fiesta is the best-selling car in Europe, according to Ford analysis of March 2017 industry data. Customers purchased 47,000 Fiestas in March, a 12 percent increase year-over-year, to overtake the Volkswagen Golf as the region's top-selling passenger car. The Ford Fiesta has been the U.K. best-seller for eight years and, in a record sales month in the U.K., it notched up 25,428 sales.

Almost 70 percent of Fiesta sales in March were high-specification models, including 17 percent in top specification Titanium series. Fiesta sales helped fuel a new car registration boom in Europe that saw a record 1.93 million sales in March - a 10.8 percent increase year-over-year. Europe has now overtaken the U.S.A to become the world's second largest region for new car registrations.

Ford sold 199,900 vehicles in Europe in March (up 14 percent year-over-year), including 156,200 passenger vehicles (up 16 percent year-over-year). This makes Ford the second best-selling vehicle brand in Europe with a total vehicle market share of 9.2 percent.