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…
The Daihatsu Sigra is the best-selling vehicle in Indonesia for the first time in history. Our monthly Indonesian coverage now includes All-brands retail volumes and a monthly All-models ranking, upgraded from a Top 20 models. Indonesia was late to impose COVID-19 lockdowns (if any) and as a result confirmed cases…
The Toyota Hilux is the #1 vehicle in Thailand for the first time this year. The March article has been updated with a Top 15 models and data for over 50 selected models. Thailand has by and large squashed the coronavirus for now, with just 3.037 confirmed cases as of…
Mercedes is the only gainer in the Top 13 and ranks 6th in April. With COVID-19 cases soaring from just 669 as of March 31 to 10.861 as of April 30 and 19.706 as of May 20, Ukraine was under strict lockdown measures for all of April, with the quarantine…
The Lexus UX is the most popular recent import launch in China. Sales of imported new cars into China are also frankly on the mend at -3.3% year-on-year in April to 92.669 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -27.4% to 253.980. Strikingly, the Top 5 most popular imported brands are…
France ended its national lockdown on May 11, with inhabitants now able to get out without having to fill a movement certificate. Business and school reopening are less strict in "Green" departments, whereas "Red" departments remain relatively constrained (see map below). So how have new car sales performed over the…
Toyota soars to 36% share in New Caledonia in April. New Caledonia is a French overseas archipelago located north-east of Australia. Unlike metropolitan France where the COVID-19 lockdown lasted until May 11, here businesses reopened as early as April 20. After March sales down a moderate -25.9%, April deliveries drop -47.2%…
The UAZ Bukhanka is #1 in Kazakhstan in April, 60% being ambulances. Picture autozavod.com Hitherto unaffected by the COVID-19 crisis (+39.7% in March), the Kazakh new car market crashes in April at -80.5% year-on-year to 1.122 units, tilting the year-to-date tally into negative at -2.8% to 18.963. This is the result…
The Toyota Corolla is the best-selling Passenger Car in Egypt so far in 2020. Three recent international trade agreements gave a boost to the Egyptian new vehicle market over the First Quarter of 2020 with sales up 50.7% to 52.931 units vs. just 35.118 over the same period in 2019,…