The Toyota RAV4 is the best-selling vehicle in Latvia so far in 2020. 11/06 update: Now with Q1 2020 Top 10 models and Top 5 brands. 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…
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 over 30 years worth of Historical Data for South Korea. Over…
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%. 8/06 update: Now with Top 175 All New Energy models. 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.…
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. 24/07 update: Now with Top 62 All-models. Thailand has by and large squashed the coronavirus for now, with just 3.037 confirmed cases as of May 20 vs. 2.931 when we published the March update on…
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…