Toyota Corolla * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * New car sales in the UAE are up a very healthy 32% year-on-year in November to 27,974 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 283,441 units, up 27% on 2011. The Full…
Infiniti QX56 Ldman's Christmas present to BestSellingCarsBlog is November figures for the Gulf Cooperation Council area, one month in advance! So there will be no October updates, only November articles which will integrate October figures and commentaries. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Oman will all be updated within the next 24 to 48…
Ferrari 599 GTB. Picture by Ed Callow, all rights reserved. This update is brought to you by HSBC. If you are a regular BSCB reader you will know that the new car market in the United Arab Emirates is up a formidable 29% year-on-year so far in 2012 at 228,702 registrations.…
Nissan Sunny * See the Top 150 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * New car sales in the United Arab Emirates are up another flamboyant 35% year-on-year in Septembet to 28,650 units, bringing the year-to-date total to 228,702 units, up 29% on 2011. The…
Toyota Hilux. Picture by Abdulmalik Al-Sabeg, all rights reserved. (click to enlarge) * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * New car sales in the United Arab Emirates are up another spectacular 36% year-on-year in August to 27,300 registrations, bringing the…
Armoured Toyota Hilux. Picture by aressecurityvehicles, all rights reserved. * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * The Emirati new car market is up a huge 46% year-on-year in July to 23,911 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 172,752 units, up…
Toyota Camry * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * Emirati consumers are definitely in the mood for buying new cars in 2012: the market is up a huge 54% year-on-year in June at 25,255 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to…
Toyota Land Cruiser * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * The Emirati new car market is in full swing in 2012: up 49% year-on-year in May to 27,283 registrations and up 50% year-to-date to 123,486 units. While in 2011 the…
Toyota Hilux * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * Emirati car sales are up 9% in March to 24,904 units, bringing the year-to-date total to 71,458 registrations, up 13% on 2011. After losing the best-seller title in extremis to the…
Toyota Corolla * See the Top 150 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * The Emirati car market is up 16% year-on-year both in February at 23,914 registrations and year-to-date at 46,551. Best-seller in extremis last year, the Toyota Corolla is #1 again after 2…
Toyota Corolla * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * Emirati consumers purchased 21,197 new vehicles in December for a 2011 final total of 243,582 units. After Oman, the United Arab Emirates is the second country in the region where the…
Toyota Hilux * See the Top 110 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * After many attempts at guessing the list of best-selling cars in the UAE based on a couple of short trips there, I can finally share with you official sales figures thanks…
GMC Sierra and Toyota Land Cruiser in Dubai, September 2011 * See the estimated Top 15 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * I was lucky enough to stop over in Dubai over the weekend for the second time in 2 months, so I can…
Toyota FJ Cruiser in Dubai, July 2011 I was lucky enough to stopover in Dubai over the weekend so I can update you on the Emirati car market. Toyota looks like it is still leading the way by a very large margin there, with the Toyota Corolla, Camry and Land…
The latest official data I could get my hands on dates back to 2003 and was limited to Abu Dhabi. The Toyota Land Cruiser was leading the way then ahead of the Toyota Corolla, Nissan Sunny, Nissan Patrol and Mitsubishi Lancer. Observation in Abu Dhabi and Dubai during my last…