Picture by Aljazi Al-Nasr. All rights reserved. Car sales in Qatar are pretty easy to decipher as a few models really stand out. The Toyota Land Cruiser is omnipresent in the streets of Doha and should secure no less than 15 to 20% of the Qatari market this year. In…
Each Middle-Eastern state has a Toyota model at #1, and in the case of Bahrain, the Toyota Yaris Sedan and Camry should fight it out for the first place, followed by the Corolla and Nissan Tiida. Other models that could also slip into the Top 10 include the Honda Accord,…
Chevrolet Lumina The Kuwaiti car market is similar to its neighbour's, Saudi Arabia. 2 of the Top 3 likely best sellers are imported from Australia: The Toyota Camry should be the leader, and the Chevrolet Lumina (aka Holden Commodore) could be #3. The Toyota Hilux should come in 2nd. Toyota…
In a stable Algerian market at 16,395 registrations, the Dacia Logan manages to grab the top spot this month with 1,373 sales (8.4%), only 5 units more than the Renault Symbol in #2. The Symbol however stays #1 in the Year-to-date ranking with 19,101 sales and 10.2% of the market. Excellent…
No surprises, the Toyota Corolla is the best-selling car in the world in 2009, thanks to very strong results in the USA, Japan, China and most of Asia and Africa. 908,661 units of the model were sold in 2009 alone. The Ford Focus takes the second spot with 781,139 registrations,…
The Belgian car market is up a healthy 10% in October with 43,570 registrations. Like in Germany, Volkswagen pulls a 1-2 this month with the Golf/Jetta #1 at 3.8% followed by the Polo at 3%. The French influence is also being felt in Belgium with the Renault Clio, Megane/Fluence and…
Renault Symbol Controlled by annual import quotas, the Tunisian market is nevertheless growing a whopping 76% over 2009 with around 35,300 registrations in the first 9 months of 2010. Like in neighbouring Algeria, the Renault Symbol is the best-selling car here, with 6,867 units sold and a massive 19.5% market share.…
Syrian consumers have chosen: they are into Korean cars, and nothing else - well, nearly nothing else. Hyundai Elantras can be seen literally on every street corner, which means the model must have been securing at least 10% of the market since its launch in 2006. Another Korean model which…
Toyota Yaris The Maltese car market is influenced by neighbours Greece and Italy and, in all likeliness, should be led by the Toyota Yaris. The other models that could step onto the podium in Malta are the Hyundai Getz, Fiat Grande Punto and Peugeot 207. Nissan Juke The previous generations…
The Romanian market is starting to recover from a catastrophic start in 2010 (-85% in January vs. '09!): October is at +9% with 8,281 sales, with the Year-to-date figure still down 27% with 70,629 registrations. No surprises on top: the Dacia Logan is king with 27.7% of the market, very…
Nissan March The Thai market is recovering from the crisis at full speed: the first 8 months 2010 are at +56% vs. '09 at 488.088 registrations! The Top 4 is stable: Toyota Hilux (20%), Isuzu D-Max (15%), Toyota Vios (8%) and Honda City (6%) dominate the sales. The Corolla Altis…
Fenavabre publishes detailed car sales data twice a month, so we have access to the Brazilian models ranking for the first half of November. The market is up a massive 30% over '09 with 160,583 registrations. The Gol/Uno fight seems to be over already with the Gol reaching 9.9% at…
Absolutely no car sales data coming from Jordan, so I'm using YouTube videos of Amman's streets to find out more about this market. This is complete speculation based on very little information so please get it touch if you have any more info! It looks like the old generation Mitsubishi…
Saipa Tiba Iran is the biggest car market in the Middle-East with an estimated 1 million+ cars sold each year. Two main manufacturers share the market: Iran Khodro (IKCO) and Saipa. Saipa has launched the new Tiba, destined to become the brand's biggest seller: 15,000 units were built in 2009…
Toyota Yaris in Yemeni street There are no official car sales figures available for Yemen, so I relied on observation of the main Yemeni cities' streets through YouTube videos. They show that in all likeliness, the Toyota Hilux is the best-selling vehicle in Yemen, followed by the Toyota Yaris Sedan.…