The Paykan brought the car to the Iranian masses in the seventies. This post lists all Iran Historical Data articles. For a voyage through the current Iranian car landscape, make sure to view our 2019 Series Exploring Iran in a Peugeot Pars. May 2020 update (12 new articles): Now with…
Launched in January, the Geely Coolray is already inside the Belarus Top 20. Belarus is shaping up to be BSCB's latest monthly update addition. To celebrate, we can offer you today detailed brands and models data available since the start of 2020. Brand-wise, we have a complete Q1 2020 Top…
The Toyota C-HR breaks its Greek ranking record for the 2nd straight month. Greece initiated a nationwide lockdown on March 23 and remained under the strictest movement restrictions all through April, starting to ease on May 4 when small retail shops and hair salons were allowed to open. The country has…
Wolodymyr the Dacia Duster with in the background the New Safe Confinement covering Chernobyl's reactor No. 4 building. This is Part 2 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. We now leave the unrecognised country…
The Toyota RAV4 is #1 in Cyprus in April. Cyprus has managed to contain the spread of the coronavirus, with 916 cases as of May 18 vs. 750 as of April 17. But quarantine measures mean its new car market is hit as hard as the rest of Europe, with…
The Foton Light Truck is the #1 LCV in China in March, the JAC Light Truck is #3. According to LMC Automotive data, Light Commercial Vehicle wholesales drop -28% year-on-year in March to 270.323 units, pulling the year-to-date tally down -36% to 527.497. The brands ranking reveals a spectacular change-of-guard:…
The VW Viloran has landed in China. It is now time to go through the new locally-produced launches for the month. After two months of pause due to the coronavirus pandemic (2 launches in February, 3 in March), we are back to a normal volume of new models in March…
Without heavy truck sales, the Chinese market would still be down in April. New vehicle wholesales in China have bounced back even stronger than preliminary data suggested in April, up 4.4% year-on-year to 2.07 million units, bringing the year-to-date tally down -31.1% to 5.761.000 units. After February deliveries collapsed -79.1%…
The Mercedes EQC shoots up to a record 5th place in Norway in April. 15/05 update: Now with Top 40 All-brands and Top 190 All-models. After a two-week lockdown imposed on March 16, Norway declared the coronavirus pandemic "under control" on April 6. Total cases have gone from 4.447 as of…
A 1998 facelift enabled the Dacia 1310 to rank #1 until 2000. May 2020 update: Now with All-brands and All-models from 1995 to 2006 and annual volumes from 1985 onwards (4 new articles and 6 updated articles). The links to all 26 Historical articles for Romania are below. BSCB is…
The Seat Ibiza first topped the Spanish charts in 1987. May 2020 update: Now with All-brands annual rankings from 2007 to 2011 and All-models rankings from 2011 onwards, meaning BSCB now offers Spanish All-brands annual data without interruption since 1985. August 2019 update: Now complete with All-brands, All-models, All LCV brands and…
The Skoda 100/110 topped Czech sales charts in the early seventies. May 2020 update: Now with 15 years of uninterrupted All-brands and All-models annual data from 2005 onwards (12 updated articles). Historical Data as far as 1969 is available for Czechoslovakia, split between Czech Republic and Slovakia from 1993 onwards. Witness…
The Kia Soluto hits a record 5th place in Vietnam in April. Vietnam has been one of the only south east Asian countries (alongside Taiwan) to be unscathed by the coronavirus pandemic thanks to a fast and strict response, with only 288 cases and no deaths reported as of May…
Thanks to new launches such as the S-Presso, Suzuki is down just -14.6%. COVID-19 movement restrictions triggered a -58.3% year-on-year drop for new car sales in Uruguay in April to 1.233 units, pulling the year-to-date tally down -23.2% to 9.369. Suzuki (-14.6%) resists a lot better than the market and…
