The Renault Captur is now #1 year-to-date in Portugal. New car sales in Portugal gain 71% year-on-year in June to 18.936 registrations, bringing the year-to-date volume up 25.6% to 81.445. Note June 2021 remains significantly down on pre-pandemic levels of two years ago in June 2019 at -25.2% for the…
The Renault Clio is the best-selling vehicle in Portugal in May. The Portuguese new car market surges back up 190.2% year-on-year in May to 16.661 registrations, leading to a year-to-date tally up 16.2% to 62.509. However, May 2021 volumes are still down significantly on two years ago pre-pandemic scores at…
The Renault Captur is #1 in Portugal for the first time. New car sales in Portugal are up 438.7% year-on-year on a locked down April 2020 to 14.809 units but down -29.9% on April 2019. The year-to-date tally is now down -4.5% year-on-year to 45.848 and down a harsh -43.1%…
The Peugeot 2008 is the best-selling vehicle in Portugal in March. New car sales in Portugal are up 19.8% year-on-year in March to 12.699 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -31.4% to 31.039. Keep in mind March 2020 was down -57.4% due to the Covid-19 lockdown so this year's…
The Peugeot 208 is the best-selling vehicle in Portugal in February. As the country was in lockdown for the entire month, new car sales in Portugal implode -59% year-on-year in February to just 8.311 units, the worst fall in Europe for the month so far. This leads to a year-to-date…
The Peugeot 2008 is the best-selling vehicle in Portugal in January. The Portuguese new car market sinks -30.5% year-on-year in January to just 10.029 units. Peugeot (-15.6%) and Mercedes (-16.3%) both manage to roughly cut the market drop rate in two to take the lead of the brands ranking while…
The Renault Clio secures an 8th consecutive annual win in Portugal. Discover over 30 years of Portugal Historical Data here. The Portuguese new car market is hit full frontal by the Covid crisis in 2020 with sales off a ghastly -35% year-on-year to just 145.417 units vs. 223.799 in 2019.…
The Ford Puma has cracked the Portuguese Top 10. Note the data section includes separate October 2020 data. New car sales in Portugal stumble down -27.9% year-on-year in November to 11.826 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -36.3% to 131.165. Renault (-25.8%) is back in the brands lead above…
BMW 1 Series salers soar 226% year-on-year in September. After stabilising in August (-0.1%) just as the whole of Europe was in doldrums (-17.6%), it's now the turn of Portugal to return to hell (-9.4%), signing a 7th straight year-on-year drop in September at 13.186 units. This brings the year-to-date…
The Renault Clio remains the best-selling vehicle in Portugal. Contrary to the majority of European markets we have covered so far, Portuguese new car sales improve on July to end August virtually immobile year-on-year at -0.1% to 12.417 units, that's only 18 sales less than in August 2019. The year-to-date…
Ford (+4.5%) is the only Top 10 carmaker in positive in July. New car sales in Portugal remain significantly below their year-ago level in July at -17.5% year-on-year to 15.209 units which leads to a year-to-date tally down -45.5% to 80.057. The Top 3 best-selling carmakers are unchanged on June…
The Hyundai Kauai is the only gainer in the Top 10. Picture garagemglobal.com The Portuguese new car market is stuck in a rut in June at -56.2% year-on-year to 11.076 units which is the worst European score we've recorded so far this month. The year-to-date tally now stands at 64.848, down…
The A-Class is #1 in Portugal in May, helping Mercedes to a record share. New daily coronavirus cases have remained below 400 since May 8 in Portugal but the pandemic hasn't been completely wrestled to the ground just yet, adding up to 33.592 cases and 1.455 deaths at the time…
The Peugeot 208 is the best-selling vehicle in Portugal in April. Under a national COVOD-19 lockdown all through the month, Portuguese new car sales recede -87% year-on-year in April to just 2.749 units, pulling the year-to-date volume down -40.4% to 48.031. Peugeot (-86.8%) snaps the brands lead for the 2nd time…
A national COVID-19 lockdown has halted Portuguese new car sales. Portugal is under national COVID-19 lockdown since March 19, initially scheduled to last until April 2 but extended to at least April 17. All non-essential businesses are closed to customers, restaurants can provide takeaway services and the government recommended that people…