VW Passat * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at the end of the post! * Swedish car sales are back on the up in August at +9% year-on-year with 24,368 registrations and still up 11% year-to-date at 201,031 units. If the Volvo V70 is…
Ford Focus * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * The Norwegian car market is back on track in August, up 10% year-on-year at 11,464 registrations and at +9% year-to-date at 91,158 units. The VW Golf lodges a very solid month…
Chana Taurus - Chana was the biggest Chinese car manufacturer in 2010 Ok I know this site is all about the best-selling models, not brands, but I'm making an exception today and sharing with you the Top 45 best-selling car manufacturers in the world in 2010: click on 'Read more' at…
In August you were more numerous than ever to visit Best Selling Cars Blog and I wanted to thank you very much for it! For the first time in the history of this site, you viewed over 100,000 pages in a month - 109,197 to be exact. August also delivered the highest…
Dacia Duster * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * 20,182 new cars were sold during the 16 to 22 August week in France, down 4% year-on-year. Renault is back to #1 but stays below Citroen and Peugeot in the month-to-date…
Renault Fluence * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * I only get access to Belgian sales a couple of times a year (thanks to es.autoblog.com) and this is one of those! Surprise on top: the Renault Fluence/Megane (sales are combined)…
70% of Opel Astras sold in Italy in July are station wagons Italy is one of the last markets in the world (with Sweden and a couple of others) still very fond of station wagons, even more so when getting ready for Summer road trips... In an overall market down…
According to Wards Auto, the number of vehicles in operation worldwide surpassed the 1 billion-unit mark in 2010 for the first time ever, at 1.015 billion compared to 980 million in 2009. The figure reflects the approximate number of cars, light-, medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses registered worldwide. Out of…
Perodua MyVi * For the first time I can share with you the Malaysian Top 100 best-selling models: See 'Read more' at end of post - Thanks Ausrutherford for the tip! * Malaysian new car sales are down 6% year-on-year in July at 50,252 registrations and down 2% year-to-date at 347,455 units.…
DongFeng Mini Van Chinese Light Commercial Vehicle sales are down 12% year-on-year in July at 305,170 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 2,951,351 units, down 6%. No surprises on top: the Wuling Sunshine reigns but for the first time in 2011 it goes below the 50,000 units mark at 44,944…
Lincoln MKZ * NOW UPDATED with the Top 100 best-selling models: see 'Read more' at end of post! * Canadian car sales are down 5% this month at 141,472 registrations. Atop the ranking both the Ford F-Series, at 8,583 sales and 6.1% share, and the Dodge RAM, at 6,485 units and 4.5%, deliver…
GAZ Gazelle * Many thanks to Edvardas for the Top 80 best-selling models in Belarus! (see 'Read more') * For the very first time on BestSellingCarsBlog I can give you official figures for Belarus! 12,889 new passenger and commercial vehicles were sold in the country in 2010, 31% less than in 2009...…
Iran street scene. Picture: Afshin Khaledi * Now updated with the Top 10 best-selling imported cars thanks to Afshin Khaledi! * I can now share with you on top of the most produced car in Iran a Top 10 of the best-selling imported models in the country. The figures are very…
Citroen C3 * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! It's a French marathon on the site these last few days! After a few weeks of Summer holidays, French magazine Auto Plus has resumed publishing the weekly Top 10 Rankings and I…
I found this beautiful map of the world's best-selling cars by country, citing me as the source :-) (albeit in very very very small letters...wink). Click on the map to download and zoom. If you have created this map please get in touch, it is not 100% up-to-date... As you…