What were the best-selling performance cars in 2021?

The facts displays the Volkswagen Golf GTI remained a critical functionality design for Brits in the initially a few quarters of the calendar year (DfT information is posted 3 months immediately after the period of time ends, consequently why we’re not working with total-yr figures).

We debated about together with performance versions of SUVs in the desk, but, given the acceptance of the bodystyle, it felt incorrect to disregard autos like the Mini Cooper Countryman S (fifth most well-liked) and the Ford Puma ST.

It was also fascinating to be aware that the most preferred Mercedes-AMG model just after the A35 was the G63, based mostly on the off-highway G-Class and costing from £164,065, with 508 offered.

The advertising profit of higher-powered versions is viewed pretty obviously in the rise of the trim levels referencing that general performance edition visually but missing their energy and chassis modifications. The very best-marketing Ford for the time period was the Puma ST-Line, the finest-providing Mercedes was the A-Class A250 AMG Line, the finest-selling BMW was the 330e M Sport and the leading-advertising Audi was the Q5 S Line. You get the notion. Brits like to be viewed in the sportiest-wanting cars, even if the go below the bonnet does not quite match the clearly show.

Normally scorching hatchbacks really don’t stray also far from the blueprint of the authentic, but Toyota chucked that knowledge out of the window with the GR Yaris. The Circuit variant (by much the most common, having 2705 of 2963 gross sales) was incredibly Toyota’s ninth most effective-providing product variant for the period of time, beating the significantly extra humble Yaris Excel.

The transformation to make this four-wheel-generate homologation particular was not affordable, and Toyota has admitted as considerably, indicating that it was developed far more as a marketing and advertising device than for single unit profitability, but it may well have paid off.

The Yaris Design was the prime-selling auto full end in the to start with 9 months, with 10,970 registered, even though the Yaris over-all was UK’s 10th greatest-vendor for the entire 12 months, in accordance SMMT details.

Electric powered cars crept into the effectiveness top 20, with the Tesla Product 3 Performance in sixth and the Porsche Taycan 4S controlling 18th.