The Toyota Yaris was #1 in Iceland from 2005 to '08 and in '12. Pic by dadiolli, all rights reserved. Iceland is without a doubt one of the car markets that suffered the most from the 2008-2009 financial crisis, with sales going from 19,316 in 2007 to 2,750 in 2009…
VW Beetle The direct links to 52 Historical Posts covering 1931-2023 are below. 22/10/2021 update: Now with All-brands data spanning 1931 to 1938. Historical Data for Germany running from 1931 onwards is now available. From 1979 onwards there is a Top 100 models ranking. And from 2005 to 2013 you can now see the…
BMW 3 Series (US model shown) * See the full article by clicking on the title! * One Bloomberg story about worldwide premium sales I thought was interesting enough to share here. After being passed by Audi in worldwide sales in January, BMW regained the top spot in luxury auto…
2014 Chevrolet Impala * See the full article by clicking on the title! * General Motors expert at Automotive News Mike Colias recently wrote an interesting article about sales of the Chevrolet Impala in 2013 which I thought I would mention here because this is an interesting 'profit over volume'…
Chevrolet Volt * See the Full article by clicking on the title! * Chevrolet has announced that the Volt has become the best-selling Electric Vehicle (EV) in the world in 2012 thanks to sales tripling to 30,090 units. For those of you for whom this comes as a surprise (I…
2013 Skoda Octavia * See the Top 3 best-selling models and Top 15 brands by clicking on the title! * As you may have noticed, Slovak new car sales data is now very patchy for the simple reason that my source ZAP has now closed off its monthly data reporting…
Opel Mokka. Opel sales are up 49% year-on-year in February in Portugal. * See the Top 34 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! * Still no models ranking available for Portugal in 2013, so we'll have to do with a complete brands ranking which is not so bad. But…
2013 Skoda Octavia * See the Top 25 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * We welcome the first March data on BestSellingCarsBlog with mid month sales now available for Iceland. 260 new vehicles found a buyer in the country over the period and one model stands out head…
Melaka, Malaysia May 2008 * See the full article by clicking on the title! * Traditionally disrupted by Lunar New Year celebrations, in 2013 February new car sales in Malaysia fare worse than normal, down 18% year-on-year to 44,977 registrations. However over the first two months of 2013 the market…
VW Lavida * See the Top 296 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * Now that we have explored the best-sellers in China in February in detail, it's time to bring back the monthly year-to-date summaries. Over the first two months of 2013 the Chinese new car market is…
Toyota Auris * See the Top 164 All-models and Top 33 All-brands by clicking on the title! Thanks Kaloyan * An estimated 1,758 new light vehicles found a buyer in Bulgaria in February, bringing the year-to-date total to 3,315 units after 2 months. Traditionally relatively volatile, the Bulgarian models ranking…
Honda N-BOX * NOW UPDATED with the Top 25 models and All-brands! Click on title to see - thanks Stephen * Sales of Kei cars are down by just 1% year-on-year in February to 184,927 registrations, which is very impressive given we are comparing it with a very high base one year ago. Year-to-date,…
Toyota Hilux * See the full article by clicking on the title! * Thanks to Jerome who recently visited Erbil in Iraq and was kind enough to share his pictures to be published on BestSellingCarsBlog, I can share with you more detail about the Iraqi new car market for 2012.…
2013 VW Golf: the favourite of Albanian consumers? * See the entire article by clicking on the title! * We stay in the Balkan area to go to Albania, which I have left alone for almost two years simply because official sales data is inexistent. With the knowledge of the…
2013 Skoda Octavia * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Thanks to Central European market data specialists www.ceauto.co.hu and for the first time in 2 years I can share with you a models ranking for Bosnia & Herzegovina. Over the Full Year 2012, 8,550 new light…