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Passenger-car registrations in Austria

Austria · March 2026

Austria registered 109 252 passenger cars in March 2026: 33 018 new cars (30.2% of the total) and 76 234 used cars. That is up 32.3% on February 2026 and up 10.1% on March 2025. Year to date the market stands at 274 216 registrations, up 1.4% on the same period of last year.

VOLKSWAGEN led the brand ranking with 18 505 registrations and a 16.9% share, ahead of BMW (9 640) and AUDI (9 206). Together the top three brands took 34.2% of the market. Among the ten largest brands, SKODA grew fastest year on year (+17.9%). The best-selling new-car model was the TESLA MODEL Y with 1 057 new registrations, followed by the SKODA OCTAVIA (783) and the VOLKSWAGEN GOLF (650).

Battery-electric cars took 11.8% of all registrations, compared with 9.1% in March 2025. Among new cars alone the electric share was 24.9%. Plug-in hybrids took 5.8%, other hybrids 16.4%, diesel 33.4% and petrol 32.6%. The leading electric brand was TESLA with 1 526 battery-electric registrations, ahead of BMW (890). The best-selling battery-electric model was the TESLA MODEL Y with 1 057 registrations, ahead of the TESLA MODEL 3 (452).

March 2026 was the strongest of the 32 months on this page, which average 89 521 registrations a month; the weakest was December 2023 with 73 057.

109 252
vs previous month +32.3% · vs same month last year +10.1%
33 018
New share 30.2%
76 234
Used share 69.8%
11.8%
12 873 BEV · 6 298 PHEV (5.8%)
24.9%
8 206 BEV
274 216
vs same period last year +1.4%

Fuel mix

New cars · 33 018
Petrol8 181 (24.8%)Diesel2 953 (8.9%)Hybrid10 513 (31.8%)Plug-in hybrid3 165 (9.6%)Battery electric8 206 (24.9%)Gas (LPG / CNG)0 (0.0%)Other0 (0.0%)
Used cars · 76 234
Petrol27 419 (36.0%)Diesel33 591 (44.1%)Hybrid7 359 (9.7%)Plug-in hybrid3 133 (4.1%)Battery electric4 667 (6.1%)Gas (LPG / CNG)63 (0.1%)Other2 (0.0%)

Brands 103

#±MakeNewUsedTotalBEV (top 10)ShareMoMYoYYTDYTD YoY
10VOLKSWAGEN4 14714 35818 50580316.9%+27.9%+7.9%48 961+2.0%
2+1BMW2 0817 5599 6408908.8%+39.6%+7.4%23 450−3.6%
3−1AUDI2 1447 0629 2064028.4%+25.1%+9.2%23 828+0.1%
40SKODA3 5335 0568 5896667.9%+28.7%+17.9%22 086+5.7%
50MERCEDES-BENZ1 4005 1046 5043206.0%+28.0%+4.6%16 403−1.5%
60SEAT1 4033 1854 5884.2%+22.2%+9.4%12 332−0.2%
70FORD8453 6044 4492794.1%+24.2%+0.7%11 435−6.7%
80OPEL8823 4594 3414.0%+22.9%+7.7%11 134+0.8%
90PEUGEOT9322 6413 5733.3%+21.0%+9.5%9 450+9.4%
100RENAULT1 0332 5343 5672483.3%+35.0%+3.0%8 608−8.7%
110HYUNDAI1 2142 1683 3823.1%+40.9%+24.5%7 768+4.4%
12+2MAZDA9861 8832 8692.6%+55.9%+4.4%6 537−5.5%
13−1TOYOTA1 0121 6462 6582.4%+16.7%−1.4%6 922−5.2%
14+1FIAT4581 8642 3222.1%+31.9%+16.5%5 921+8.5%
15−2DACIA1 1661 0412 2072.0%+12.8%+7.4%5 884+5.3%
16+1KIA7531 4142 1672852.0%+25.8%+4.5%5 597+0.9%
17−1CITROEN5141 5532 0671.9%+18.4%+15.4%5 589+10.9%
18+8TESLA1 5264822 0081 5261.8%+269.8%+73.4%3 413+50.3%
19−1CUPRA1 1576201 7771.6%+30.9%+7.9%4 420−2.3%
20−1SUZUKI5621 1081 6701.5%+33.6%+20.8%4 038−8.8%
21−1VOLVO4259851 4101.3%+23.4%+5.5%3 783+2.3%
22−1BYD1 1122721 3847381.3%+49.1%+72.4%3 130+65.9%
23−1NISSAN4248071 2311.1%+58.0%−23.3%2 664−28.5%
24+1MG8293761 2051.1%+119.1%+20.0%2 258+26.1%
25−2MITSUBISHI2836589410.9%+44.8%+6.1%2 246+3.1%
26+3PORSCHE1776348110.7%+68.6%−7.4%1 739−9.7%
270JEEP3264818070.7%+52.6%+34.3%1 890+19.0%
28−4MINI1136727850.7%+25.4%−7.2%2 000−8.7%
29+1HONDA2603666260.6%+45.6%+17.4%1 457+2.0%
30+1ALFA ROMEO1814436240.6%+63.4%+8.5%1 386−5.4%

BEV shows a brand's row in the month's top-10 electric list (new cars); brands outside the list show no figure, not zero.

Top 20 models (new cars)

Statistik Austria publishes registrations by make, not by model. The model figures here are its own monthly top-20 list of new-car types and top-10 lists of electric makes and types; there is no full model table for Austria.

#MakeModelNewShare of new
1TESLAMODEL Y1 0573.2%
2SKODAOCTAVIA7832.4%
3VOLKSWAGENGOLF6502.0%
4BMWX16171.9%
5SEATIBIZA5291.6%
6SKODAKAROQ5241.6%
7HYUNDAITUCSON5221.6%
8SKODAFABIA5011.5%
9AUDIQ34911.5%
10TOYOTAYARIS4741.4%
11TESLAMODEL 34521.4%
12VOLKSWAGENTIGUAN4381.3%
13BMWX34161.3%
14SEATLEON4061.2%
15BYDSEAL4051.2%
16DACIASANDERO3981.2%
17MAZDACX-303891.2%
18VOLKSWAGENPOLO3831.2%
19CUPRALEON3771.1%
20DACIABIGSTER3721.1%
Other models22 83469.2%

Top 10 electric brands (new cars)

#MakeNewBEV share
1TESLA1 52618.6%
2BMW89010.9%
3VOLKSWAGEN8039.8%
4BYD7389.0%
5SKODA6668.1%
6AUDI4024.9%
7MERCEDES-BENZ3203.9%
8KIA2853.5%
9FORD2793.4%
10RENAULT2483.0%
Other brands2 04925.0%

Top 10 electric models (new cars)

#MakeModelNewBEV share
1TESLAMODEL Y1 05712.9%
2TESLAMODEL 34525.5%
3SKODAELROQ3574.4%
4VOLKSWAGENID.33344.1%
5SKODAENYAQ3093.8%
6BMWX12713.3%
7BMWX32503.1%
8BYDATTO2302.8%
9VOLKSWAGENID.72102.6%
10BYDSEALION2052.5%
Other models4 53155.2%

New battery-electric cars only. Shares are of the month's new BEV registrations; the 'other' row completes each list to the new-car BEV total of the fuel table.

Counts are Statistik Austria's monthly passenger-car (Pkw) registrations by make from its open government data tables, new and used, re-read whole on every refresh; the press workbook's by-make table equals the table in every month, and its fuel table gives the fuel mix. Percentages are shown only when the comparison month has at least 30 registrations.