Hyundai Verna in Ürümqi (click on any picture to enlarge) This is Part 2 of my Ürümqi Photo Report, you can check out Part 1 about the surprising strength of budget Chinese brands here. Yesterday I reported on how the Shanghai Englon SC7, SC3 and SC6, Dongfeng Fengshen S30 and H30 Cross…
Toyota Vios * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Only incomplete data - a Top 10 excluding LCVs - is available for now for Vietnam, where new car sales were up a splendid 22% year-on-year in March. This brings the First Quarter total to…
Kia Rio * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Irina * The Kazakh new car market is back to explosive growth in March at +34% year-on-year to 12,647 registrations, bringing the First Quarter total to a record 34,474 units, up 25% on 2013. The…
This post is sponsored by Ford. Coinciding with the 50th birthday of the iconic sports car nameplate's launch, the Ford Mustang is finally headed to Australia as a proper right-hand drive version tuned to Aussie roads. To celebrate the occasion, Ford organised a Mustang lover convention in Sydney which will…
The new Vios helped Toyota up to 16.8% share this month. * See the Top 45 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! * The Malaysian new car market is up 2% year-on-year in March to 58,919 registrations, bringing the First Quarter total to 159,910 units, up just 1% on…
Urumqi street scene (Click on any image to enlarge) After Beijing and Chongqing, we now travel to Ürümqi in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region at the extreme West of China. As described in my previous article The cars of Chongqing - Central China, the Chinese hinterland is going to absorb most…
Chana Taurustar, Chana Star & Wuling Hongguang in Chongqing – April 2014 * See the Top 30 best-selling vehicles (PC and LCV) by clicking on the title! * Now that the Top 10 most popular Light Commercial Vehicles in China are known, I can give you the Top 30 best-selling…
Chana Taurustar in Ciqikou, Chongqing - April 2014 * See the Top 10 best-selling LCVs by clicking on the title! * Thanks to data graciously shared by Chinese market experts LMC Automotive, we now have access for the first time on BSCB to a Top 10 Light Commercial Vehicle ranking for…
Chongqing street scene (Click on any picture to enlarge) Now that you know the secrets of Beijing hutongs and the most impressive Chinese carmakers at the Beijing Auto Show, we go on a bit of adventure inside China. First stop is Chongqing, one of the fastest-growing cities on earth, 1.500km…
Haval H8 And the winner is… Haval, Great Wall's SUV brand. This is Part 9 of my coverage of the Beijing Auto Show, check out also Part 1- First impressions, Part 2 – Most impressive Chinese carmakers #30 to #26, Part 3: Most impressive #25 to #21, Part 4: Most impressive #20 to #16, Part 5:…
Rolls-Royce presented the $1.6m Phantom Pinnacle Travel Collection in Beijing this week. * Click on title to see the Global, China and US sales of 6 luxury manufacturers! * Global, China and US sales of luxury manufacturers are a rare find so I trust you'll enjoy this... According to an…
The Siena was Fiat's best-seller in Uruguay in 2013. * See the Top 45 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! Thanks Leandro * New car sales in Uruguay are stable in March to an estimated 4,151 registrations, bringing the First Quarter total to 12,977 units, up 5% on 2013…
Dongfeng Number 1 Concept This is it: the top of the crop, the utmost impressive Chinese carmakers at the Beijing Auto Show. It doesn’t get better than this. Would you have guessed them? This is Part 8 of my Beijing Auto Show coverage, check out also Part 1- First impressions, Part 2 – Most…
Toyota Tundra. Global Toyota sales are up 6% year-on-year so far in 2014. Toyota announced yesterday they sold 2.583 million vehicles worldwide over the First Quarter of 2014, enabling the Group to keep the world leadership for the third Quarter in a row. General Motors comes second with 2.42 million…
Fiat Doblo * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * According to data from Central European market data specialists www.ceauto.co.hu, Serbian new car sales are up a splendid 23% year-on-year in March to 2,402 registrations, bringing the First Quarter total to 4,955 units, now up 9%…