Renault Captur * See the Top 80 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The French new car market is up a shy 3% year-on-year in September to 142,211 registrations, only in positive because this month had one more working day than September 2012. The year-to-date total is still…
Renault Trafic * See the Top 80 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Sales of Light Commercial Vehicles are down 3% year-on-year in September to 29,175 registrations, bringing the year-to-datet total to 266,948 units, down 7% on 2012. The Renault Kangoo hits its highest market share in one…
Renault Captur * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * Down 3% year-on-year over the first 23 days of the month, the French new car market should end September with a slight gain over 2012 thanks to one more working day. The Renault…
The Peugeot 508 is #7 in Franche-Comté where Peugeot has its main manufacturing plant. * See the Top 20 best-selling models in 22 French regions by clicking on the title! * See a map of all French regions here From the goldmine of data I found at the CCFA in Paris,…
VW Golf VII * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * The French new car market is down a moderate 3% year-on-year over the first 2 weeks of September to a little bit more than 51,000 registrations. A good hold in a depressed…
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…