The closing of 2025 leaves more than just a registration figure. It leaves a market that is beginning to organize itself more clearly in the middle of the transition, with electrification gaining weight. With the aggregated data in hand and without entering into readings that the sources do not allow, there is a podium that clearly imposes itself in the Spanish market and that helps to understand how it is being reconfigured.
The manufacturers podium. With the year closed, the podium by brands is defined. Toyota led 2025 with 96,290 registrations, followed by Renault with 83,308 and Volkswagen with 76,545. It is not a minor detail, because this leadership occurs in a market that is growing and, at the same time, transforming.
Monthly behavior provides an interesting perspective. After two consecutive months exceeding pre-pandemic benchmarks, December broke that dynamic with a year-on-year decrease of 2.2%, to 103,012 units, and the employers’ associations point out that this decline was influenced by the fact that in the same month of 2024 DANA increased vehicle sales in Valencia.
It should be noted that in the accumulated annual period, registrations grew by 12.9% to 1,148,650 units, still below the 1.26 million in 2019, and the private channel was the most dynamic, with 539,642 units (+18.1%), ahead of companies (418,574, +12%) and rental companies (190,434, +2.3%).
Electrification accelerates. The most striking leap of the year is in electrified passenger cars. BEV+PHEVs grew by 94.6% in 2025, up to 225,617 units, an unprecedented figure in a single year. In parallel, pure electric vehicles exceeded 100,000 sales in the year and plug-in hybrids reached 124,000 units, 111.7% more. Even with the market far from being mostly electric, the change is already big enough to begin to influence the general distribution.
We must keep in mind that this advance coexists, however, with a market still dominated by non-pluggable technologies. In the annual summary by energy sources, hybrid and plug-in hybrid passenger cars accounted for more than 50% of the market, with 483,000 units (+23.1%) and 124,000, respectively, while gasoline and diesel fell, with 318,210 registrations (-16%) and 62,669 (-35%).
The DANA effect, with nuances. The impact appears in the data and in the sector’s discourse, but always as a partial factor. The employers’ associations point out that the comparative effect of December 2024 helps explain the adjustment at the end of 2025 and FACONAUTO also highlights the registrations linked to the Valencian Community after DANA.
From Moncloa, in an update from October last year, context is provided, the Insurance Compensation Consortium registered 250,034 applications, processed 244,426 and paid 3,735,525,301 euros. Within that volume, more than 144,000 requests were for damage to vehicles, with more than 98% already managed, a figure that measures the impact, but does not allow it to be attributed to a specific engine.
Thus, 2025 closes with several certainties. The market is growing, electrification has gained weight and the brand podium is clear in a year of transition. Toyota, Renault and Volkswagen lead the ranking of registrations. At the same time, the sector is still far from full normalization and carries the burden of an aging fleet, according to ANFAC. The question remains open for 2026, when it will be time to see if this trend is sustained.
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