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Bahrain March 2012: Land Cruiser & Prado confirm leadership

May 10th, 2012 Leave a comment Go to comments

Toyota Land Cruiser. Picture by Saleh AlRashaid, all rights reserved.

* See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman *

The Bahraini new car market is on fire in this start of the year, up a huge 143% year-on-year in March to 4,197 registrations and bringing the year-to-date total to 11,168 units, up a massive 69% on 2011. The Top 2 best-selling models stay unchanged compared to January and February: the Toyota Land Cruiser is still the most popular model in the country by far with 385 sales and 9.2% and it is followed again by the Toyota Prado at 267 units and 6.4%.

Dodge Charger

In fact Toyota holds the Top 5 positions with the Hiace up a nice 7 spots on February to #3 ahead of the Hilux and Corolla. Year-to-date, Toyota goes one further and monopolises the Top 6 with the Camry at #6. Small market means volatility in the models ranking and this month the Hyundai Accent is up 8 ranks to #8 while the Honda Accord is up 10 to #10.

Infiniti FX

Further down, great performers include the Nissan D22 up 59 spots to #16, the Toyota FJ Cruiser up 15 to #17, the Mitsubishi L200 up from just one unit sold and #177 to 53 and #20, the Hyundai Azera is up 47 ranks to #23, the Infiniti FX is up 23 to #26, the Dodge Charger is up 33 to #27 and the Nissan Civilian is up 84 spots to #41.

Previous month: Bahrain February 2012: Toyota Land Cruiser and Prado on top

Full March 2012 Top 50 Ranking Table below.

Bahrain March 2012:

Pos Model B Mar 12 % Feb B 2012 % Pos 2011
1 Toyota Land Cruiser 385 9.2% 1 1,060 9.5% 1 1
2 Toyota Prado 267 6.4% 2 641 5.7% 2 8
3 Toyota Hiace 234 5.6% 10 412 3.7% 4 10
4 Toyota Hilux 196 4.7% 5 380 3.4% 5 3
5 Toyota Corolla 194 4.6% 3 482 4.3% 3 2
6 Hyundai Elantra 150 3.6% 4 308 2.8% 7 19
7 Nissan Tiida 135 3.2% 9 296 2.7% 8 4
8 Hyundai Accent 125 3.0% 16 292 2.6% 9 5
9 Toyota Camry 95 2.3% 7 349 3.1% 6 6
10 Honda Accord (incl Coupe) 92 2.2% 20 214 1.9% 13 17
11 Nissan Maxima 88 2.1% 12 251 2.2% 10 13
12 Kia Rio 88 2.1% 13 240 2.1% 11 12
13 Lexus LX 72 1.7% 25 126 1.1% 21 25
14 Nissan Altima 65 1.5% 15 181 1.6% 14 7
15 Kia Sorento 59 1.4% 22 144 1.3% 19 30
16 Nissan D22 56 1.3% 75 77 0.7% 33 26
17 Toyota FJ Cruiser 55 1.3% 32 103 0.9% 24 33
18 Kia Carens 54 1.3% 21 146 1.3% 18 18
19 Toyota Avalon 54 1.3% 27 130 1.2% 20 20
20 Mitsubishi L200 53 1.3% 177 54 0.5% 42 23
21 Hyundai Tucson 52 1.2% 8 228 2.0% 12 9
22 Toyota RAV4 52 1.2% 18 163 1.5% 16 24
23 Hyundai Azera (MAR11) 44 1.0% 70 95 0.9% 25 60
24 Nissan Urvan 39 0.9% 35 68 0.6% 36 46
25 Kia Cerato 35 0.8% 34 75 0.7% 34 11
26 Infiniti FX 35 0.8% 49 52 0.5% 43 n/a
27 Dodge Charger 34 0.8% 60 58 0.5% 40 55
28 Hyundai H1 100 Bus 32 0.8% 24 81 0.7% 30 34
29 Lexus ES 31 0.7% 28 89 0.8% 27 35
30 Toyota Yaris 29 0.7% 26 119 1.1% 22 14
31 Fuso Canter 28 0.7% 14 178 1.6% 15 43
32 Mitsubishi Lancer 28 0.7% 96 87 0.8% 29 21
33 Isuzu D-Max 25 0.6% 30 87 0.8% 28 22
34 Infiniti G 24 0.6% 74 46 0.4% 48 75
35 Kia Mohave 23 0.5% 38 50 0.4% 44 80
36 Mazda3 23 0.5% 48 49 0.4% 45 44
37 Toyota Fortuner 23 0.5% 59 49 0.4% 46 41
38 Chevrolet Tahoe 22 0.5% 17 115 1.0% 23 36
39 Toyota Coaster 20 0.5% 158 59 0.5% 39 67
40 Kia Picanto 20 0.5% 39 45 0.4% 49 53
41 Nissan Civilian 20 0.5% 125 23 0.2% 80 n/a
42 Nissan Qashqai 19 0.5% 23 78 0.7% 31 48
43 Nissan Patrol 19 0.5% 52 60 0.5% 38 54
44 GMC Yukon 18 0.4% 36 75 0.7% 35 27
45 Mazda CX-9 18 0.4% 71 43 0.4% 52 42
46 BMW 5 Series 17 0.4% 50 44 0.4% 51 47
47 Mitsubishi L300 17 0.4% 83 30 0.3% 68 n/a
48 Ford Expedition 14 0.3% 57 35 0.3% 60 n/a
49 Toyota Sequoia 14 0.3% 97 31 0.3% 65 70
50 Lexus GS 14 0.3%  - 14 0.1% 112  -

Source: manufacturers, many thanks to Ldman for sharing the data!

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