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It’s official: SUVS are now more popular than they have ever been before. New figures from industry analysis company Jato Dynamics have revealed that high-riders took a whopping 49.7% of the new car market in Europe last month, with 402,900 examples registered.

The other standout statistics from the January figures include an 18% share for electrified cars, a 27% year-onyear decline for diesel cars and a whopping 24% overall share for the Volkswagen Group alone.

It’s important to note, however, that the market was down 28% on prepandemic January 2020, as a result of the chip crisis, and Sweden was the only country in Europe to record an uptick in registrations.