Talk:Renault 19

7.4 second time
The 8.2 seconds from 0 to 100 km/h are claimed by the factory in the 1991 Automobil Revue Katalog, a yearly "phonebook"-type magazine given every year to journalists in the Geneva Motor Show. That time is claimed for non-catalyst version, with catalyst it's 8.9 seconds. If someone has any tests from motor magazines supporting the 7.4 seconds time (for 0-100 km/h, that is 0-62 mph, not 0-60) add them as sources. If there are no sources for the 7.4 time, I will request page protection. --Pc13 (talk) 13:34, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Mais informações sobre esta maquina podem ser encontradas em r19club.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.53.162.41 (talk) 18:54, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Everything about this car in http://r19club.com/en/

Renault 19 sales volumes in WEST Germany and united Germany in 1990
I am (still) uneasy about the statement in the article, "It was the best selling imported car in West Germany in 1990 and then in re-united Germany from 1991 to 1994." That is, I agree that your sources support the notion that it was the best selling imported car in Germany from 1990 to 1994. But I am (still) not convinced about WEST Germany and 1990. (I find a number of sources for it having been the best selling imported car in [Gesamt] Deutschland 1990.   Here's one:  they're mostly suspiciously similar, though .....)

I asked for another source and you added one. I like it. Mais selon Les Echos, "...avec une part de marché passée de 3,5% en 1990 à 5,4% l'an dernier, le constructeur français se trouve sur une lancée que les résultats des premières semaines de 1992 ne démentent pas, en particulier dans les Lander orientaux où les commandes Renault sont supérieures à celles du début 1991". In other words they sold a whole lot more cars in Germany in 1991 than they had in 1990, and from what it says here and elsewhere in the article a lot of the increase reflected the popularity of the Renault 19 in the "neuen Bundesländer" (ex-RDA). That's how I remember it too. But it does NOT say that "it was the best selling imported car in West Germany in 1990".

Sorry this all looks more than a tad nerdy. However .....

A good solution would be to check out copies of Auto Motor und Sport - possible from October 1990 and again from January 1991. AMuS listed German market car sales by model. (Still do.)  The September 1990 ytd figures for WEST Germany and the December 1990 ytd figures should both be there, and possible to check. I should have these somewhere, but my piles of car magazines are unindexed. Mea culpa. If anyone reading this has an online subscription to AMuS, then it evidenctly includes access to many decades of issues online, but I still haven't mastered the log-in protocols. Has anyone else? And ... please?

Be well Charles01 (talk) 15:25, 24 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Indeed they sold a lot more car from 1991 thanks to ex-RDA, where the R19 was the second best-selling car overall. I don't think it prevent it from being the best selling imported car in West Germany during 1 year.


 * I don't doubt that much of sales in West Germany because Bestsellingcarsblog stated the R19 was the second best selling imported vehicle in 1989 (https://bestsellingcarsblog.com/1990/01/west-germany-1989-vw-golf-leads-passat-on-podium/). The R19 was clearly a hit. I don't see bestsellingcarsblog making an error twice.


 * I hope we will find these Auto Motor und Sport figures. If you want you can also reach out to Matt Gasnier from Bestsellingcarsblog, maybe its figures are coming from Auto Motor und Sport!


 * Monettt (talk) 21:04, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I see absolutely nothing that suggests anything other than the R19 being the best selling car in BRD in 1990. That Renault's market share in BRD was 3.5% in 1990 and that their share was 5.4 in a unified German market in 1991 in no way disproves this. In fact, we have several references that all say the same exact thing.  Mr.choppers &#124;   ✎  00:31, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Dug up some old Auto Katalog (AMS' yearbook). New car sales in West Germany were 3,040,783 in 1990, unified Germany bought 4,118,674 cars in 1991. Renault sold 128,546 cars in West Germany in 1990, 238,095 cars in unified Germany in 1991 (!). Renault was the second biggest import brand in 1990 (Fiat sold 137,421 cars) but the R19 was the #1 import model with 64,259 registrations versus 46,127 Fiat Unos. There are no available data for sales in East Germany in 1990, nor is it exactly clear how figures were arrived at for the last three months of 1990.  Mr.choppers &#124;   ✎  00:38, 25 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot for investigating Mr.Choppers ! So, we can even say the R19 was leader by a large margin !
 * Monettt (talk) 14:16, 25 June 2021 (UTC)