The Toyota Land Cruiser holds 18.2% of the Lebanese market over Q1. 6,543 new vehicles hit Lebanese roads over Q1 2024. Toyota tightens its grip over the market and posts a fantastic 40.8% share. It is followed by Nissan at 31.5% vs. just 6.6% over the Full Year 2022. Mitsubishi…
Toyota Land Cruiser 32,887 new vehicles found a buyer in Kuwait over Q1 2024. Toyota remains the favourite with 27.7% share, way above Nissan at 10.7%. Mitsubishi rounds out the podium at 7%, just ahead of Ford at 6.8%. Chevrolet completes the Top 5, distancing Kia and a surging MG.…
The Changan E-Star is the most popular vehicle in Jordan over Q1 2024. 8,634 vehicles were sold in Jordan over Q1. Toyota is the champion in the sales charts but sees its share fall to 31.7% vs. 40% for the previous update we had over Full Year 2022. Kia for…
The Toyota Hilux is now the best-selling vehicle in Iraq. The Iraqi new vehicle market amounts to 36,943 units over Q1 2024. Toyota overtakes Kia to lead the brands charts with 31.9% share vs. 26.5% for Kia. Hyundai comes in third with 11.4% of the market with all other brands…
The Toyota Hilux is the best-selling vehicle in Bahrain so far this year. 8,029 new vehicles hit Bahraini roads over Q1 2024. Toyota easily tops the brands charts with 35.3% of the market ahead of Nissan at 9.7% and Hyundai at 8.1%. MG snaps a fantastic 4th place with a…
The Toyota Hilux is the best-selling vehicle in Yemen so far in 2024. 2,233 new vehicles found a Yemeni buyer over the first quarter of 2024. Toyota holds 95.1% of the market with Lexus at 2.5% and Suzuki at 1.3%. Model-wise, the Toyota Hilux takes the lead above the Toyota…
Hyundai Mighty The Syrian new vehicle market is virtually dead in 2024 with just 29 sales in the first three months of the year. The Hyundai Mighty ranks first above the Hyundai H1-Starex and Hyundai HR Truck, and that's it! Full Q1 2024 Top 3 All models ranking below. Syria…
Xiaomi SU7 Let's examine the newcomers in the Chinese wholesales charts for April. This month we have 12 new models hitting dealerships, 10 of them Chinese. I keep repeating this but once again this shows the extraordinary rate at which domestic manufacturers launch new models compared with foreign ones. To…
The Jaecoo J7 enters the South African Top 50 in April. 38,172 new vehicles found a South African home in April, marking a return to positive territory for the first time since July 2023 at +2.2% year-on-year. The year-to-date tally is now down -4% to 168,970. Exports freefall -23.9% to…
The Wuling Cloud ranks #24 this month in Indonesia. The Indonesian new vehicle wholesales market dive -17.4% year-on-year in April to just 48,637 units. This is dreadful result as April 2023 sales were already down -28.9% on the year prior. The year-to-date volume is now off -22.7% to 263,706. As…
The Renault Clio is the best-selling vehicle in Slovenia in April. New car sales in Slovenia step up 8.2% year-on-year in April to 4,694 units, leading to a year-to-date tally up 5% to 18,687. Volkswagen (-5.6%) easily remains the most popular carmaker in the country despite a year-on-year loss, holding…
The Dacia Sandero is #1 both for the month and year-to-date. 17,329 cars hit Portuguese roads in April, a 7.6% year-on-year gain. The year-to-date tally is now up 11.8% to 76,373. Dacia (-6.6%) manages a second ever monthly win despite declining YoY, after it did so exactly a year ago…
BYD sales are up 11-fold year-on-year in April. 5,224 new light vehicles found a buyer in Uruguay in April, that's 37.2% year-on-year improvement and the highest monthly gain this year so far. Chevrolet (+75%) doubts the market growth to 16.8% share, level with its YTD figure of 16.9%. Fiat (+38.8%)…
VW holds 14% of the Luxembourg market in April. New car sales in Luxembourg climb 5.7% year-on-year in April to 4,414 units, meaning the year-to-date market is now down -2.4% to 16,914. This is a solid performance given April 2023 was up 25% on the year prior. The top 2…
First Top 10 finish for the BYD Destroyer 05. According to data by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), the Chinese wholesales market is up 9.3% year-on-year to 2,359,000 units. This includes 2,002,000 Passenger Vehicles (+10.5%) and 357,000 Commercial Vehicles. Year-to-date, volumes are up 10.2% to 9,079,000 with Passenger…