Ford Focus *Now updated with the Top 200 best-selling models: see 'Read more', thanks Austin!* At last a positive month in Spain, albeit August, traditionally the slowest month of the year. At 47,303 registrations, the Spanish car market is up 5% year-on-year this month. The year-to-date figure is down 22% at…
VW Golf Cabrio * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * Irish car sales are down 34% in August at 3,143 registrations, but still up 8% year-to-date at 83,565 units. For the first time since June 2010, the VW Golf is…
Lancia Ypsilon * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * New car sales in Italy are up just 1.5% year-on-year in August at 70,732 registrations, with the year-to-date total down 12% at 1,228,501 units. The Fiat Punto (7.4%) and Panda (6.4%)…
Nissan Juke * See the Top 75 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * Over the first 7 months of 2011 the Latvian car market is up a whopping 83% on the same period in 2010 at 4,743 registrations. Thats's +76% on 2009 but -65%…
Ford Focus * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * Traditionally late to unveil July models data, Poland sees new car sales drop by 5% this month at 23,181 registrations and by 6% year-to-date at 160,550 units. The Skoda Octavia is…
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…