Best Selling Cars – Matt's blog

Toyota Land Cruiser

* See the Top 60 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman *

Yemen is the fourth middle-eastern country today after Jordan, Lebanon and Syria to now be graced with official sales data for the very first time on Best Selling Cars Blog thanks to the help of Ldman. It’s a very limited market with only 1,454 new vehicles sold over the first 3 months of 2012. Not all manufacturers are represented so the ranking could be incomplete but one thing is certain: Toyota dominates in Yemen.

Like in nearby Qatar and Bahrain, the Toyota Land Cruiser is the best-selling model in the country over the period with a mammoth 23.8% market share thanks to 346 sales. The Toyota Land Cruiser Pick-up comes 2nd with 228 units and 15.7% followed by the Toyota Hilux at 191 sales and 13.1%.

Toyota Land Cruiser Pick-up

The Hyundai Tucson ranks #4 ahead of the Kia Cerato and Rio while the Range Rover is 7th with 32 sales and 2.2%, potentially its highest ranking in the world!

Previous post: Yemen 2010: Toyota Hilux and Yaris sedan in command (non official data)

Full Q1 2012 Top 60 Ranking Table below.

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Toyota Yaris in Yemeni street

There are no official car sales figures available for Yemen, so I relied on observation of the main Yemeni cities’ streets through YouTube videos. They show that in all likeliness, the Toyota Hilux is the best-selling vehicle in Yemen, followed by the Toyota Yaris Sedan.

Toyota seems to have a strong hold over the Yemeni market with the Land Cruiser and Camry possibly in #3 and #4. The other very successful brand in Yemen is Hyundai which should place the Getz, Sonata and Tucson within the Top 10.

Toyota Hilux in background

More photos below.

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