Best Selling Cars – Matt's blog

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

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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.

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Toyota Land Cruiser. Picture by Mishari Al-Reshaid, all rights reserved.

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

The Bahraini car market is on fire in this start of the year: up 67% year-on-year in February to 3,753 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 6,791 units, up 39% on 2011. In this euphoric context, the Toyota Land Cruiser accentuates its domination even further to a mammoth 11.5% share in February thanks to 433 sales, with the year-to-date total at 675 units or just under 10% share, to be compared with 6.9% over the Full Year 2011.

Toyota Prado. Picture by Alwosaibie, all rights reserved.

The Toyota Prado, #8 over the Full Year 2011 at 2.9% market share, is up to #2 in February and year-to-date at 4.7% and 5.5% share respectively. In third place the Toyota Corolla is very close to its historical levels at 4.5% share, followed by the Hyundai Elantra at 150 units and 4% (vs. 1.4% in 2011) and the Toyota Hilux at 3.3%. This means the 2012 year-to-date Top 6 is 100% Toyota: Land Cruiser, Prado, Corolla, Camry, Hilux and Hiace…

Range Rover

Other great performers this month include the Nissan Sunny up 12 spots on January to #6, the Kia Optima up to #11, Chevrolet Tahoe up to #17, Nissan Qashqai up to #23 and Range Rover up to #31 with 0.7% market share.

Previous post: Bahrain Full Year 2011: Land Cruiser leads, Hyundai Accent shines

Full February 2012 Top 50 Ranking Table below.

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Toyota Land Cruiser

* See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman *

I can now share with you detailed sales data for the whole year 2011 in the 6 countries forming the Gulf Cooperation Council! Bahrain is the first cab off the rank, and you can now access a Top 100 for the Full Year 2011 and each and every month of the year! Click on the title for all the details.

Toyota Corolla

31,212 new cars were registered in Bahrain in 2011 and the Toyota Land Cruiser is the best-selling model in the country this year with 2,157 sales and 6.9% share. It was #1 6 times in 2011, peaking at 294 sales in November. The Toyota Corolla takes the second spot at 1,402 units and 4.5% and was #1 twice. It is followed by the Toyota Hilux with 1,331 sales and 4.3%, leading the way once, in July.

Hyundai Accent

In fourth place we find the Nissan Tiida at 1,286 sales and 4.1%, ranking first twice, ahead of the Hyundai Accent new generation at 1,101 units and 3.5%. The new Accent launched in January and built up all through the year to brilliantly reach the pole position in December with 145 sales and 5.7% share. The only other model to sell over 1,000 units in Bahrain in 2011 is the Toyota Camry at #6 and 1,045 units.

BMW 7 Series

Other great December performers include the Hyundai Tucson up to #3, Kia Cerato up to #5, BMW 7 Series up to a fantastic 6th place for a car that expensive, Hyundai Sonata up to #13, Hyundai Santa Fe up to #14 and BMW X5 up to #18.

Previous month: Bahrain November 2011: Toyota Land Cruiser and Hyundai Accent lead

Full Year 2011, December and every month’s Top 100 Ranking Tables below.

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Toyota Land Cruiser. Picture by Mohammed AlAmmari

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

And here is my Christmas present to you all! This is the first of 7 articles on all nations of the Persian Gulf (GCC) thanks to data shared by Ldman. For the first time ever on Best Selling Cars Blog I am able to share with you actual sales figures for the Top 50 or 100 best-selling models for all countries in the region!

Hyundai Accent

In Bahrain 2,882 new cars were registered in November and the Toyota Land Cruiser is a distant leader with 294 sales or 10.2% market share. It is followed by the new generation Hyundai Accent at 200 units and 6.9% and the Toyota Prado with 170 sales and 5.9%.

Lexus ES

Hyundai manages to place the Tucson in 4th place (4.6%) and the new gen Elantra in 10th (2.6%) while Toyota has 3 more models in the Top 10: the Corolla at #7, Hiace at #8 and Hilux at #9. The other two brands present in the Bahraini Top 10 are Nissan with the Altima at #5 and Kia with the Sportage at #6. Further down the ranking, notice the Lexus ES at #15, the Lexus LX at #17, the Nissan Juke at #21 and the Porsche Cayenne at #34.

Full November Top 50 Ranking Table below.

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Each Middle-Eastern state has a Toyota model at #1, and in the case of Bahrain, the Toyota Yaris Sedan and Camry should fight it out for the first place, followed by the Corolla and Nissan Tiida. Other models that could also slip into the Top 10 include the Honda Accord, Toyota Land Cruiser, Hiace and Hilux, Nissan Altima and Isuzu D-Max.

This is a very rough speculation based on the observation of the streets of Bahrain through recent YouTube videos. Please get in touch if you have any more info!

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