A total of 3,439 new passenger cars were sold in Croatia in February 2021, 4.2 pct down from the same month in 2020, according to the data released by the Promocija Plus market research agency on Friday.

In January 2021, 2,915 new cars were sold, a decrease of 19.7 percent year-on-year. The January drop affected cumulative data for the first two months of 2021, when a total of 6,345 vehicles were sold, or 12.95 percent down from January-February 2020.

In the first two months of this year the best-selling car make was Volkswagen, with 1,187 units sold and a market share of 18.68 percent. The only other carmaker with a market share of more than 10 percent was Skoda, with 823 cars sold in the January-February period and a market share of 12.95 percent.

Fiat was third with 482 cars sold, followed by Dacia and Hyundai, with 328 units sold each, and Renault with 327 vehicles sold.

In February alone, the most sought-after car model was the Skoda Octavia, with 227 units sold, ahead of the Fiat Panda (215), the VW T-Roc (150), the Dacia Duster (138) and the Hyundai Tucson (126).

In January and February, 3,271 petrol cars were sold, accounting for 51.5 percent of total sales, while diesel vehicles accounted for 31.3 percent with 1,986 units sold. Also sold were 830 hybrid cars (13.1 percent), 193 vehicles powered by natural gas (3 percent) and 74 electric cars (1.2 percent).