The Fiat Cronos is the best-selling vehicle in Argentina for the first time. The Argentinean new vehicle market drastically reduces its fall in September to -3% year-on-year and 34.705 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -34.4% to 247.503 after already falling -44.5% last year... Volkswagen (+4.4%) bucks the negative trend…
The Fiat Cronos is up 113.6% year-on-year to a record 2nd place. New vehicle sales in Argentina dive another -30.9% year-on-year in August to 30.418 units, leading to a year-to-date tally off -37.7% to 212.798. Brand leader Volkswagen (-10.1%) drops three times slower than the market and hit a strong…
The VW Amarok is up to #3 overall in Argentina. As we predicted last month, the post Covid-19 recovery of June (+0.8%) was short-lived with most car dealerships in the Greater Buenos Aires region closed anew under a new quarantine. July volumes are back down a searing -38.8% year-on-year to just…
The Chevrolet Onix is now the #1 vehicle in Argentina in 2020. New vehicle sales in Argentina are back in positive for the first time in over two years (since May 2018) at +0.8% year-on-year to 36.228 units, however June 2019 was depleted -43.9% on the year prior and this post…
The Toyota Hilux is back to #1 in Argentina. As the country is slowly awakening from its COVID-19 torpor, new vehicle sales in Argentina drop -42.6% year-on-year in May to 21.015 units, pulling the year-to-date tally down -45.4% to 115.864. That's a much better hold than in April (-88.3%) but still hardly…
Buenos Aires during the COVID-19 quarantine. Argentina was under a strict national quarantine during April with dealership closed across the country and the Automotive Registries only reopening on April 22 to process registrations. On April 26, the quarantine was extended to May 10. As a result, the only sales made…
The Chevrolet Onix repeats at #1 in Argentina in March. On March 20, the Argentinean government imposed one of the strictest Coronavirus lockdowns in the world, meaning automotive factories, dealerships and registration offices closed for the rest of the month. As such, these sales figures are for the March 1-19…
The Chevrolet Onix is the best-selling vehicle in Argentina in February. New vehicle sales in Argentina skid down -31.7% year-on-year in February to just 27.204 registrations - the weakest February volume since 2004 - bringing the year-to-date tally down -27.8% to 71.921. An old and somewhat questionable theory of the…
The VW Gol is up 28.8% in a market down -25.3% in January. Although Argentinean new vehicle sales dive another -25.3% year-on-year in January to 44.717 units, this is incredibly the smallest decline in 17 months, since August 2018 exactly. That's a testimony to how much damage has been done…
The Toyota Hilux is the best-selling vehicle in Argentina in 2019. Consult almost 60 years of Argentinean Historical Data here. New vehicle sales in Argentina freefalls down -42.7% year-on-year in 2019 to just 459.592 units compared to over 800.000 in 2018 and a forecast of just -20% and 650.000 at…
Jeep is the only carmaker in the Top 15 to gain ground in November. No respite for new vehicle sales in Argentina, down another devastating -35.2% year-on-year in November to 25.624 units, even though November 2018 was already down -44.9% on the previous year. The year-to-date volume is now -43.3%…
The VW Amarok hits its highest ranking in Argentina in 3.5 years. Argentinean new vehicle sales endure a 17th consecutive double-digit fall in October at -32.9% to 32.432 units, leading to a year-to-date volume down -43.7% to just 410.051. Volkswagen (-32.5%) and Toyota (-44.2%) remain the best-selling brands in the country,…
Ford Ranger sales are up 15.9% in a market down -31.7%. The new vehicle market in Argentina continues to freefall at -31.7% year-on-year in September to 35.781 units, leading to a year-to-date tally imploding down -44.5% to just 377.619 registrations, by far the lowest result at this stage of the…
The Toyota Hilux remains ultra-dominant in the Argentinean models charts. The strong subsidies program launched by the Argentinean government to try and salvage a dangerously freefalling has failed to stop the rot, with August sales down another discouraging -32.7% year-on-year to 44.006 units, leading to a year-to-date volume down -45.5% to…
Toyota is boosted up 2.9% by the new Yaris breaking into the Top 5 this month. The extension of a government subsidy plan aimed at reviving sales in the country seems to have finally had some limited effect on the market, with July sales down "only" -25.9% year-on-year to 49.477…