While the market share of automatic transmission cars reached 90.4 percent in the Turkish automotive market in the January-June period, it is stated that the fact that the global production of automatic transmission cars is higher than that of manual transmission also affects sales.
When buying a car, price, fuel and engine type play an important role. The transmission type of the vehicle is also seen as an important factor in the preferences of car users.
Interest in automatic transmission cars, which offer comfortable driving especially in heavy urban traffic, is increasing.
In the Turkish automotive market, sales of automatic transmission vehicles continued to rise in the January-June period of this year.
It is stated that this increase is also due to the fact that the global production of automatic transmission automobiles is higher than that of manual transmission.
According to data compiled from the Automotive Distributors and Mobility Association (ODMD), Turkey's total automobile and light commercial vehicle market grew by 3.7 percent in the first half of the year compared to the same period of 2023, reaching 577 thousand 981 units.
During this period, automobile sales increased by 7.3 percent to 462 thousand 955 units, and light commercial vehicle sales decreased by 8.7 percent to 115 thousand 26 units.
As of the end of June, cars with automatic transmission took a 90.4 percent share of sales with 418 thousand 701 units, while the share of cars with manual transmission was 9.6 percent with 44 thousand 254 units. Thus, while 9 out of every 10 cars sold in the said period were recorded as automatic transmission, the market share of cars with manual transmission decreased to single digits.
When considered on a segment basis, the ultra-luxury segment (F), luxury segment (E) and upper-middle segment (D) had the highest automatic transmission share with 100 percent.
These segments were followed by the A segment, known as the smallest city cars, with 96.3 percent, the B segment, known as the small vehicle class, with 95.5 percent, and the C segment, known as the compact class or lower middle class, with 85.3 percent.
Based on automobile sales in June, automatic transmission sales exceeded manual transmission sales. Last month, 418 thousand 701 of the total 462 thousand 955 automobile sales were automatic transmission cars. Considering the periods, the decreasing trend in the market share of manual transmission automobiles continued.
In the January-June period of last year, the market share of automatic transmission cars was 78 percent and sales were 336 thousand 662 units, while the market share of manual transmission cars was 22 percent and sales were 94 thousand 710 units.
In the January-June period of 2022, the share of manual transmission cars in total sales will be 22.2 percent, in the same period of 2021 it will be 24.3 percent, in 2020 it will be 30.4 percent, in 2019 it will be 33.72 percent, in 2018 it will be 34.63 percent. It was recorded at 41.92 percent in 2017, 42.7 percent in 2016 and 52.20 percent in 2015.
In the 2006 report, which included the first data on the ODMD website, the share of automatic transmission vehicle sales in all segments was recorded as 22 percent, and the share of manual transmission vehicle sales was recorded as 88 percent.
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