The Toyota RAV4 is the best-selling vehicle in Cyprus again. According to data shared with us by our local partners SEMO Cyprus and INNOSOFT, the Cyprus new car market rallies back to just -29.5% year-on-year in May and 790 registrations. This is a drastic improvement on the -77.9% of April and it…
Our Kia Seltos on Flinders Beach in Stradbroke Island, Australia. Kia astutely chose the Seltos for its very late arrival in India, and the wholesales figures have been nothing short of spectacular: 12.854 in the first month last October and 83.685 in just 8 months, meaning the Seltos has single-handedly…
The new Isuzu D-Max is back above the Toyota Hilux in May. 24/07 update: Now with Top 55 models. Even though Thailand has remained unscathed by the coronavirus with only 3.146 cases at the time of writing, its automotive industry is still reeling from the factory closures that enabled such…
French new car sales are slowly recovering after the lockdown was lifted on May 11. 20/06 update: Now with Top 270 All-models and Top 30 All-EV models. 2/06 update: Now with the Top 55 All-brands. The much anticipated May volumes in Europe are starting to trickle down, giving us a…
The Renault Arkana ranks #27 over the period. A new Top 135 Passenger Cars ranking is now available for Russia for the January-April 2020 period, giving us a much better look at this market than our monthly Top 25. And there's a lot happening just outside the familiar group of…
The Fiat Tipo is #1 in Lithuania in May but 99% are re-exported. The Lithuanian new car market drops -51.5% year-on-year in May to 2.057 units, tilting the year-to-date tally into negative at -1.3% to 18.699. Fiat (-49.7%) remains by far the most "popular" brand in the country with a…
The Mazda CX-30 secures its 2nd podium finish in 3 months on sale in Colombia. 18/06 update: Now with Top 80 models. 11/06 update: Now with Top 30 brands and models. The April 2020 article has now been updated with the Top 70 All-models. After grounding to an almost complete…
The Xpeng P7 has landed in China, and is aiming squarely at the Tesla Model 3. After analysing May wholesales in China, it's time to detail the new locally-produced launches for the month. We are now truly back to pre-pandemic launch rhythms with no less than 11 new models making their entrance…
The Mercedes GLB ranks just outside the Greek Top 30 in May. Picture drive.gr New car sales in Greece are down -67.5% year-on-year in May to 4.497 units, that's a slightly better hold than in April (-80.2%) but still a pretty poor performance given how relatively unscathed the country has been…
The Mitsubishi Triton is #1 in Indonesia for the first time. Factory closures mean Indonesian wholesales collapse -95.8% year-on-year in May to just 3.551 units, pulling the year-to-date tally down -41.2% to 248.310. Retail sales fare somewhat better but still sink -81.8% to 17.083 and -40% YTD to 260.716. Mitsubishi…
First win since January 2018 for the Ravon Nexia R3. After stalling -80.5% in April, the Kazakh new vehicle market spectacularly returns to growth in May at +18.7% year-on-year and 7.315 registrations, completing the only true V-shaped recovery in the world (Chinese sales were in negative for three months). The…
Hongqi (+133.7%) symbolises the recovery of the Chinese market and its SUV segment, with both the brand (15.103) and the HS5 (9.117) breaking all-time records. Doing even better than the +11.7% anticipated, Chinese wholesales soar +14.5% year-on-year to 2.194.000 units according to data released by the China Association of Automobile…
The VinFast Lux A2.0 ranks inside the Top 10 at home. Vietnam has impressed with its handling of the coronavirus crisis with only 334 reported cases and 0 deaths as of June 16 for a country of 95.5 million inhabitants bordering China... Its new car market is already recovering at…
Renault is up to 16.1% share in Bulgaria vs. 10.2% in 2020. The Bulgarian new car market freefalls -68.1% year-on-year in May to just 1.448 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -47.1% to 10.042. Renault (-50.3%) snaps the brands top spot for the first time in 2020, shooting up…
Our Dacia Duster has crossed the Black Sea and poses in Batumi, Georgia. This is Part 4 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, Part 2: Chernobyl, Ukraine here and Part 3: Belarus here. It's now…