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Liverpool tops the League for car sales

Football’s Premier League kicked off with a vengeance at the weekend, and to mark the occasion, Cheshire-based motoring website motoring.co.uk has created an alternative league table.

It represents how the table would look like if clubs were ranked not by their performance on the pitch – but by the car sales of their automotive sponsors.

The results are quite eye-opening for football fans more familiar with a league dominated by the ‘usual suspects’.

Happily for Liverpool fans, who were pipped to the post for the number one spot by Manchester City last season, the club’s tie-up with Vauxhall puts them top of the table.

Official figures show that Vauxhall has sold more than 160,000 new cars in the UK in 2014.

Chelsea come in at number two, with almost 96,000 new Audis sold this year, followed by Everton (linked to BMW) at number three.

Current Premier League champions Manchester City – backed by Nissan – ranked fourth, while Sunderland, linked with a local Mercedes Benz dealership, bask in fifth place.

And what of Manchester United? Louis van Gaal will no doubt be aiming for a better final position in the real Premier League, but the website’s ‘auto table’ puts the Reds at number eight – with 2,761 UK sales of Chevrolets confirmed to date in the UK.

The www.motoring.co.uk League table was created using data from SMMT for new car sales in the UK to date (July 2104).

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Simon Malia .