The Chevrolet Silverado breaks into the global Top 5. Picture trucktrend.com Our Full Year 2019 Top 1300 best-selling cars article has been so popular that we are back for the same exercise, this time studying the Top 800 best-selling cars in the world halfway through 2020. To create this much-anticipated…
Latin America is the worst-hit new car market globally in July, with Chile down -63.6%. LMC Automotive has now released its internal Global Light Vehicle (LV) sales for July 2020, showing a single-digit year-on-year decline for the first time since February. According to LMC, July global sales are down -6.8%…
India is fast becoming the global epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak and some areas are reimposing lockdowns. LMC Automotive released its internal Global Light Vehicle (LV) sales for June 2020, showing yet another weak figure but continuing improvement on the lowest pandemic score last April (-44.8%). Global sales are down -18.1%…
Brazil and Latin America are pulling global new light vehicle sales down in May. LMC Automotive released its internal Global Light Vehicle (LV) sales for May 2020 and although a slight improvement on the 22-year low annualised score of April (-44.8%), the result remains dire at -33.3% to 5.086.635 units…
Global light vehicle sales have fallen to their lowest in over 20 years in annualised terms. Picture Flash90. LMC Automotive released its internal Global Light Vehicle (LV) sales for April 2020 and as expected the picture is dire, with a year-on-year drop of -44.8% to just 3.967.406 units vs. 7.193.464…
The Toyota Corolla celebrates 15 straight years as the world's best-seller. Consult 60 years of Worldwide Historical Data here. 29/04 update: Now with the Top 15 groups and Top 30 brands. 24/04 update: Now with a Top 10 sneak peek, Renault-sourced data and complete Turkey and Puerto Rico/USVI sales. For…
The Toyota Hilux tops an estimated 35 markets worldwide. It’s time for an update on the best-selling nameplates in 177 markets around the planet, detailing how many countries in which a specific model ranked #1. In 2019, 65 nameplates have at least won one market in the world. This list is once…
Brazil (+12.9%) is the biggest gainer among the Top 20 global auto markets. A lot earlier than last year, we can share with you today 2019 Annual Volumes for 164 markets worldwide, including Passenger Cars + Commercial Vehicles. As such, these figures can surpass the ones we have reported in our…
A V-shaped recovery for worldwide new car sales is fast becoming untenable. During this difficult and volatile period, we at BSCB will refrain from publishing constantly changing short-term forecasts which only add to the ton of alarmist updates we are all getting on an hourly basis. The spread of the…
The Volvo S/V60 snaps its first ever win in Sweden in 2019. This article is the portal to all Full Year 2019 Reports, covering 116 countries and 178 specific regions including 103 French departments, 51 US States and 19 Spanish regions for a total of 294 markets. You can find below…
India is the only Top 20 world market to break its volume record in 2018. Picture by Elliott Scott. We can now share with you today 2018 Annual Volumes for 145 markets worldwide, including Passenger Cars + Commercial Vehicles. As such, these figures can vary from the ones we have…
The Toyota Corolla was #1 in the world 1980. 20/08/2019 update: Now with information for 1983 (1 new and 2 updated articles). The direct links to 38 Historical World posts are below. Thanks to Florian at Interautonews I can now share with you the world's best-selling models in much more detail…
The new generation RAV4 is helping Toyota reclaim the world #1 manufacturer title. According to our respected colleague Bertel Schmidt writing on the Daily Kanban, the Toyota Group reclaims the title of largest automotive manufacturer in the world over the First Half of 2019 thanks to deliveries up a fantastic…
The Toyota Hilux tops an estimated 37 markets worldwide. It's time for an update on the best-selling nameplates in 177 markets around the planet, detailing how many countries in which a specific model ranked #1. In 2019, 64 nameplates have at least won one market in the world. This list is once…
The 12th generation will help the Toyota Corolla remain at #1 worldwide in 2019. Consult 60 years worth of Worldwide Historical Data here. Our exclusive Full Year worldwide models ranking is here for 2018. This is the most complete and accurate worldwide ranking published online, taking into account official sales…