France Best Selling Cars Ranking in 2025. Renault showed outstanding gains, with the Clio holding firm at the top and the 5 surging 69 spots into 9th with outstanding gains. Peugeot models, on the other hand, mostly reported losses.
In France more than in any part of the World, local consumers prefer to purchase from local manufacturers, and vehicles produced by Renault or Stellantis dominate the ranking of best-selling cars.
This is confirmed even this year, when the market is steady, as reported in the dedicated post.
Looking at cumulative data up to November of 2025, the best selling model in France was the Renault Clio (+12.5%) with 6.5% of the market.
In 2nd place ranked the Dacia Sandero with 4.2% (-13.8%), followed by the Citroen C3 -up 1 spot- in 3rd with 3.7% (+17.5%).
In 4th place ranked the Peugeot 3008 -up 6 spots- (+18.5%) followed by the Dacia Duster -up 1 spot- (-3.8%)
The Peugeot 208 -down 3 spots- secured 6th spot (-26.2%). The Peugeot 208 BEV ranked 7th (-5.6%) while the Renault Captur -down 3 spots- was 8th (-21.2%). The Renault 5 -up 69 spots- ranked in 9th (+496.6%), followed by the Toyota Yaris -down 1 spot- which closed the Top 10 (-4.6%).
Tables with sales figures
In the tables below we report sales for the Top 50 models.
