Spain registered 128,426 new cars in June 2026, up 7.8% year on year, taking the first half of 2026 to 647,711 units, up 6.2%. The Dacia Sandero stayed on top of the model chart for another month, but the more notable entry was near the bottom: the BYD Atto 2 cracked Spain’s top 10 for the first time, at number 9.
Toyota led the brand chart with 9,542 registrations, ahead of Volkswagen, Seat and Dacia. BYD wasn’t among that top 10, but it wasn’t far off either: the brand’s Spanish sales more than doubled year on year, up 102.4% to 4,873 cars, moving it into 11th place among brands. Electric and plug-in hybrid models combined made up 23.2% of the June market.
Best-selling models in Spain, June 2026.
Seat is the only brand with two cars in the top 10, the Ibiza in second on 3,404 units and the Arona in sixth on 2,375 - a home-market strength no rival brand matched. Toyota also appears twice, with the Corolla and Yaris Cross, and Peugeot bookends the list: the 2008 in third, the 208 in tenth.
Three other Chinese brands posted bigger percentage gains than BYD outside the top 10 - Leapmotor at 306.6%, Ebro at 220.2%, Jaecoo at 122.7% - though none of them sold enough cars to threaten a top-10 spot. BYD is currently the only Chinese brand with a model that far up the Spanish sales chart.
Spain’s top 10 has historically stayed close to home, dominated by Seat, Dacia and the mainstream European and Japanese brands. The Atto 2’s arrival doesn’t change that on its own, but it marks the first time a Chinese-brand model has broken through.
Source: ANFAC and GANVAM registration data, via Best Selling Cars Blog
