Saab is third most common car in Sweden

Here is some interesting statistics from Sweden, the home of Saab and Volvo. In many countries around the world both Saab and Volvo may be seen as premium and even luxary cars and those two car brands make up only a small fraction of all the cars on the roads. But not so in Sweden. In Sweden these two car brands are among the most common cars. Anyone who has been to Sweden will have seen this and if you've been to Trollhättan you have probably gotten a Saab overdose. But let's look at the statistics.


Ten most common car brands in Sweden 2010

Brand	On the road	Inactive	Total
VOLVO	996 958	237 193	1 234 151
VOLKSWAGEN	437 254	100 629	537 883
SAAB	343 522	80 308	423 830
TOYOTA	281 037	44 109	325 146
FORD	277 272	82 834	360 106
AUDI	214 762	43 773	258 535
RENAULT	177 107	24 108	201 215
OPEL	176 908	56 275	233 183
PEUGEOT	163 362	25 286	188 648
BMW	153 464	47 545	201 009

There little doubt that Volvo is Sweden's biggest car brand with more than double the number of cars on the road than the runner up which is Volkswagen. On third is Saab, but there is almost three times as many Volvos as there are Saabs on the road.

The same statistics, this time presented in a chart:




But is there any difference between men and women in Sweden?

If we look at statistics from 2005, we can see that men prefer Volvo first and then Saab and Volkswagen. When we look at women, they prefer Volvo first and then Volkswagen, Ford, Toyota and in fifth place Saab.

Source: Statistics Sweden

So does this mean that Saab is first and foremost a car for Swedish men?