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…
The Saipa Shahin could finally be headed toward mass production in the coming months. Iranian production data is now released by Iran Khodro, Saipa, Pars Khodro and Zamyad which represent between 90 and 95% of the national production as most Chinese carmakers have left the country after the strengthening of international…
The Hyundai Sonata ranked #1 at home 16 times between 1994 and 2015. May 2020 update: Now with All-brands and All-models rankings from 1990 to 1997, meaning there are now 30 uninterrupted years of annual All-local models rankings for South Korea (5 new articles). BSCB covers 30 years worth of Historical Data for South Korea. Over the…
Malaysia was under a nationwide lockdown during April. Picture Vincent Than/AP The Malaysian nationwide “Movement Control Order”, a partial lockdown, was initiated to stem the spread of COVID-19 on March 18 and extended to May 12. The rise in confirmed cases has been drastically slowed, with 6.002 as of April 30…
Ivory Coast Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly was evacuated to France for health checks on May 2. Our Ivory Coast contact has recently let us know that new car sales in the country are likely to amount to zero for the month of April as the Office of Registrations was…
The 50 year-old Zamyad Z24 is back inside the Top 10 in 2019. After adding 12 new Iranian Historical Data articles, it is now time to catch up with the latest sales data. The Iranian government has stopped releasing complete monthly production data, with only reports from Iran Khodro, Saipa,…
Changan sales are up 60.7% in a market down -5.6%. According to the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA), retail sales of passenger vehicles (cars, SUVs and MPVs) thin their fall to just -5.6% year-on-year in April to 1.43 million units. This is by far the best result in 2020 after…