Hard times for the Italian car market, down 21% in November with 146,307 registrations. The Year-to-date figure is down 8% at 1,840,511. The Fiat Panda is #1 in Italy for the first time since May with 10,736 sales and 7.3%, ahead of the Punto at 10,066 (6.9%). The Punto's 1st…
In this blog I normally focus on best performances and don't dwell on the weak ones, but this is such shocking news that it had to be the main headline: the Tana Nano only found 509 new owners in the whole of India last month... This is very bad news…
The Greek car market is falling further into recession, down 63% year-on-year in November. The Year-to-date figure is down 35%. Traditionally very volatile, the Greek models ranking is led this month by the Opel Corsa at a very impressive 7.4% market share, followed by the Ford Fiesta (5.2%) and the…
Toyota Prado in Lome, Togo * Click on title for more street scenes and video * Very little information to draw on as far as the car market in Togo is concerned. Based on only a few videos and photos of the streets of Lome, my bet is that the…
Dutch car sales are up 38% year-on-year this November, and the year-to-date figure is up 25% at 472,022 registrations. The VW Polo consolidates its newfound leadership in the country with a 2nd month in a row at #1 and 5.4%, followed by the Opel Corsa in very good shape at…
Very healthy Taiwanese market in November at 32,738 registrations, the 2nd best figure this year. Talk about an uneventful month though: the November Top 12 is exactly the same as the YTD ranking! While the Toyota Corolla stays #1 by far at 11.3%, the Nissan Tiida at #2 (4.9%) is…
The Gabonese market is down 2% over the first semester 2010 with 2,147 sales, its lowest level in 10 years. The most recent data by brands is for 2009 when the market fell by 7.5% at 4,638 sales. Toyota was 1st with 31.3% of the market, followed by Mitsubishi (18.7%),…
* Click on title for street scenes and videos! * No less than half the cars in circulation in Bamako, Mali's capital and biggest city, are old Mercedes imported from Europe: mainly 1980's Mercedes 190 & 220/230 and 1990's Mercedes C Class. As far as new cars are concerned, the…
* Click on title for a Kigali street video! * The majority of cars in circulation in Kigali are Toyota Corollas of various generations, and the last gen should continue the tradition and lead the models ranking in Rwanda, with the Toyota Hilux and Nissan Hardbody also popular. Street Scene…
* Click on the title for an Estimated Top 15, street videos and street scenes! * Observation of the streets of the capital Luanda show that the Angolan car market is quite developed, and dominated by the Toyota Hilux and Mitsubishi L200. Other very popular cars are the Chevrolet Matiz, Toyota…
* Click on title for street scenes and videos! * The Burkinabe car market is relatively developed, at least in the capital Ouagadougou, with a respectable amount of new cars in the streets. The Toyota Hilux should lead the sales in Burkina Faso, other successful cars being the Suzuki Grand…
* Click on title for street videos! * There is not enough video material available to determine which cars are the best sellers in Guinea Bissau, so please get in touch if you have any information at all. The observation of the streets of the capital city Bissau show that…
JAC Tojoy Still very limited, the new car market in Madagascar is dominated by Asian brands: Toyota is in the lead in Q2 2010 at 11.8% (down from 17.9% in Q4 '09), ahead of Nissan and Mitsubishi. However the big novelty in Q2 is the thunderous arrival of two Chinese…
* Click on title for street scenes and videos! * In Guinea, new cars are reserved to the elite who seems to prefer big Toyotas like the Prado, Land Cruiser 70 and 200. Most cars are taxis and among them, the most popular models are the 1992 Renault 19 Phase 2…
The Polish market is up a healthy 20% in October at 30,380 registrations, bringing the 2010 YTD total to -1% at 264,470. The Skoda Octavia (5.9%) and Fabia (3.8%) maintain their domination in Poland, ahead of the VW Golf which reaches a very satisfying third place. The Opel Astra and…