The Mercedes A Class is 5th this week in France... * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * Over the first week of September, 26,062 new cars found a buyer in France, down just 1% on 2012, however this score was biased by…
The first Peugeot 308 II were delivered to French dealerships this month. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 300 models and Top 50 All-brands! Click on title to see * Definitive figures are now available for France, with the monthly total corrected to a slightly better 85,953 registrations, down 10% year-on-year. The…
Bollore BlueCar and Velib' in Paris - September 2013. * See the Full article featuring 20 photos by clicking on the title! * After the Cannes hinterland, today I can share with you a little photo report of the streets of Paris where I have been lucky enough to spend…
Good old me with Marie-Dominique Riehl from the CCFA. Thanks Joana for the pic! This week I have been paying an almost daily visit to the Comité des Constructeurs Français d'Automobiles (CCFA) in Paris. The CCFA publishes French new car sales figures every month and is my source for each…
Good old me with Alexandra Legendre On Monday I had the privilege to visit the offices of French magazine L’Automobile Magazine in Paris, for which I have been contributing a few articles over the past year. Alexandra Legendre, who has been regularly mentioning BSCB in L’Automobile Magazine for nearly 2…
Renault 4 La Parisienne * Discover 50 French Historical Data articles spanning the last 65 years here * Today we inaugurate a new series on BestSellingCarsBlog: This was years ago…. Where I focus on one year in one country and reflect on the changes that have affected that specific market…
Dacia Sandero in Gourdon, France - September 2013. * See the Full Photo Report by clicking on the title! NOW UPDATED with the Top 60 best-sellers overall (Passenger Cars + LCV - a better way to relate what can be seen on French roads) One year ago I published a Photo Report…
The Renault Captur outsells the Peugeot 2008 2 to 1 this month in France. * See the Top 80 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * There is now Full Top 300 models and Top 50 brands rankings available here One year ago in August 2012, the French new…
Renault Clio IV * See the Top 80 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Once again the Light Commercial Vehicles market behaves slightly better than the Passenger Cars one in France: down 6% year-on-year in August (vs. -11%) to 18,039 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 237,747 units, down…
Citroen C4 Picasso * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * After a summer holiday hiatus (the last update was in early July), we return to our intermediate data for France, now covering the first 26 days of August just before I can…
Kia now has 208 showrooms in France vs. 70 in 2003... * See the evolution of number of dealerships for 31 brands by clicking on the title! * Thanks to French magazine L'Argus today I can share with you some unusual info: the evolution of the number of dealerships by…
In its August issue, French car magazine L'Automobile Magazine quoted BestSellingCarsBlog as its source in an article about new car sales in Algeria and Tunisia relating the 'Rallye des Medias' between Alger and Djerba. Many thanks to Alexandra Legendre for thinking of BSCB when crucial sales figures were needed :) Note…
Mercedes CLA sales have plunged in France because their registration is currently forbidden here... * NOW UPDATED with the Top 300 best-selling models! Click on title to see * Thanks to French magazine L'Argus I can share with you a relatively rare ranking: the 300 most popular models in France in…
Peugeot is above Renault in July to rank #1 brand in France... * See the Top 55 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! * Thanks to French magazine L'Argus I can share with you today a July All-brands ranking for France! Stay tuned for the Top 300 models ranking…
Toyota Yaris Hybrid * See the Top 12 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Thanks to L'Automobile Magazine I can share with you a rare ranking for France: the best-selling electric and hybrid cars over the first half of 2013. Toyota wins by far at this little game,…