New car sales in China have returned to pre-coronavirus levels. Picture Reuters. After sinking -14% year-on-year over the first 10 days of May to 351.000 units, new vehicle wholesales in China have stabilised to just -2.5% year-on-year over the first 20 days of May to 971.000 units, according to the…
The Chery Tiggo 2 is the #1 model in Tunisia so far in 2020, #3 when adding all versions of each model. Today we can share with you rare All-brands and All-models data for Tunisia over the first four months of 2020. 10.381 new light vehicles found a buyer over…
The Renault Clio is #1 in Serbia in April and YTD. After dropping -42.6% in March to 1.701 units (complete Top 10 models below), the Serbia new car market is down another -78% year-on-year in April to 934 sales, pulling the year-to-date volume down -37.1% to 6.827, according to data shared…
The Skoda Fabia is the best-selling vehicle in North Macedonia in April. Our Eastern European data specialist partner CE Auto is telling us sales of new cars in North Macedonia drop -76.4% year-on-year in April to 156, leading to a year-to-date tally down -40.7% to 1.502. It's worth noting that no vehicle…
The Mercedes GLE ranks on the Bosnian podium in April. Thanks to our partnership with Central European market data partner CE Auto, we can now share with you April data for Bosnia & Herzegovina and sales are cratering due to COVID-19 at -78% year-on-year to just 284. The year-to-date volume is…
Haval launched in Moldova in October 2019. According to our Central European market data partner CE Auto, the Moldovan remains depleted by COVID-19 restrictions in April at -72.9% year-on-year to just 156 units, pulling the year-to-date tally down -35.2% to 1.270 sales. The Toyota RAV4 (-31.3%) surges to pole position with a…
Skoda leaps onto the European podium for the first time in history and the Octavia is on the models podium for the second time ever. 29/05 update: Now with Top 55 All-brands and Top 365 All-models (JATO). Preliminary figures for new car sales in Europe-27 markets (EU+EFTA+UK) released by ACEA…
The Citroen C3 is the #1 in Slovakia in April - but there's a trick... New car sales in Slovakia plummet down -61.5% year-on-year in April to 3.424 units, the lowest monthly volume since January 2003 (3.527). The year-to-date tally is now down -31.7% to 22.390. Skoda (-56.3%) stays very close…
Peugeot is the most popular brand in Turkey in April. 29/05 update: Now with Top 25 models. Following the spread of COVID-19 in Turkey, a 15-day entry ban to the 30 provinces with metropolitan status was imposed on April 3 but infections continued to rise through the month to reach 120.204…
BMW is the best-selling brand in Belgium in April. 29/05 update: Now with the 2020 YTD Top 10 models. Like its neighbour France, Belgium was under a strict, nationwide COVID-19 lockdown for all of April and new car sales accordingly drop -90.1% year-on-year to just 5.296 units. The year-to-date tally…
The government announced plans to test the entire population of Luxembourg for COVID-19. 28/05 update: Now with 2020 YTD Top 10 models. The COVID-19 state of emergency declared on March 17 isn't scheduled to expire before mid-June, and as a result new car sales in Luxembourg sink -78.9% year-on-year in…
The Toyota RAV4 is the best-selling vehicle in Latvia so far in 2020. New car sales in Latvia sink -58.5% year-on-year in April to 683 units, pulling the year-to-date tally down -25.4% to 4.553 sales. Over the first four months of the year, the Toyota RAV4 (-5.9%) is the best-selling…
Wolodymyr the Dacia Duster in the Belorussian countryside. This is Part 3 of our Dacia Duster adventure through 10 countries and 9000 km around the Black Sea, you can read Part 1: the road to Transnistria here and Part 2: Chernobyl, Ukraine here. Now that Wolodymyr the Duster and I have been…
Global light vehicle sales have fallen to their lowest in over 20 years in annualised terms. Picture Flash90. LMC Automotive released its internal Global Light Vehicle (LV) sales for April 2020 and as expected the picture is dire, with a year-on-year drop of -44.8% to just 3.967.406 units vs. 7.193.464…
Toyota Corolla sales are up 77.3% in Mexico in April. As we predicted last month, the Mexican new car market crumbles under the weight of the coronavirus crisis in April at -64.5% year-on-year to 34.903 registrations, pulling the year-to-date volume down -23.1% to 331.580 units. As it is the case in…