Check out this list with online metrics scoring the top french car brands. Ranked by Google searches.

#1

Peugeot

Peugeot is a French brand of automobiles owned by Stellantis. The Peugeot company and family are originally from Sochaux. Peugeot retains a large manufacturing plant and Peugeot museum there. [1]

Website 1.4m vists/mo [a] Google 100% Trends score [b] Instagram 845k followers Twitter 178k followers Facebook 13m followers YouTube 97k subscribers
#2

Renault

Groupe Renault (also known as the Renault Group in English; legally Renault S.A.) is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899. The company produces a range of cars and vans, and in the past has manufactured trucks, tractors, tanks, buses/coaches, aircraft and aircraft engines, and autorail vehicles. [2]

Renault has a lot of different social media accounts and website addresses. As we only pick one URL for each channel, the brand looks less popular that it really is.

Website 901k vists/mo [a] Google 100% Trends score [b] Instagram 165k followers Twitter 138k followers Facebook 19m followers YouTube 76k subscribers
#3

Citroën

Citroën is a French automobile brand. The "Automobiles Citroën" manufacturing company was founded in March 1919 by André Citroën. Citroën is owned by Stellantis since 2021 and previously was part of the PSA Group after Peugeot acquired 89.95% share in 1976. [3]

Website 962k vists/mo [a] Google 79% Trends score [b] Instagram 419k followers Twitter 131k followers Facebook 12m followers YouTube 34k subscribers
#4

Alpine

The Société des Automobiles Alpine SAS, commonly known as Alpine, is a French manufacturer of racing and sports cars established in 1955. The Alpine car marque was created in 1954. [4]

Website 151k vists/mo [a] Google 59% Trends score [b] Instagram 199k followers Twitter 16k followers Facebook 108k followers YouTube 59k subscribers
#5

Bugatti

Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. is a French luxury hyper-sports car manufacturer. The company was founded in 1998 as a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group and is based in Molsheim, Alsace, France. The Bugatti name was first made famous by Ettore Bugatti (1881–1947), who established the original Bugatti automobile brand in 1909 at Molsheim and built sports, racing and luxury cars. [5]

Website 889k vists/mo [a] Google 59% Trends score [b] Instagram 18m followers Twitter 919k followers Facebook 5.1m followers YouTube 1.1m subscribers

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To rank the items in this list, we compared the number of Google searches last 12 months, worldwide.

The data in this list was updated between 2023-02-08 and 2023-02-22.

Sources

[a] Estimated website visitors was gathered from Similarweb.
[b] Search data was gathered from Google Trends.
[1] Text from Wikipedia: Peugeot. Gotten 2023-02-22. It is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
[2] Text from Wikipedia: Renault. Gotten 2023-02-22. It is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
[3] Text from Wikipedia: Citroën. Gotten 2023-02-22. It is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
[4] Text from Wikipedia: Automobiles Alpine. Gotten 2023-02-22. It is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
[5] Text from Wikipedia: Bugatti Automobiles. Gotten 2023-02-08. It is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.