France Best Selling Cars Ranking in 2025. Renault models showed the most robust performanes, with the Clio securing the top and the 5 skyrocketing 281% into 5th. The Peugeot 208 dropped from 3rd into 8th.
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 full-year data for 2025, the best selling model in France was the Renault Clio (+9.9%) with 6.4% of the market.
In 2nd place ranked the Dacia Sandero with 4.1% (-15.2%), followed by the Citroen C3 -up 1 spot- in 3rd with 3.6% (+21.7%).
In 4th place ranked the Peugeot 3008 -up 7 spots- (+16.3%) followed by the Renault 5 -up 44 spots- (+281%)
The Renault Captur -down 1 spot- secured 6th spot (-19.7%). The Dacia Duster -down 4 spots- ranked 7th (-12.2%) while the Peugeot 208 -down 5 spots- was 8th (-26.1%). The Peugeot 208 BEV -down 2 spots- ranked in 9th (-7.4%), followed by the Toyota Yaris -down 1 spot- which closed the Top 10 (-5%).
Tables with sales figures
In the tables below we report sales for the Top 50 models.
