4. Maruti Swift: Indian #1 in April 2012 * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * 2012 is definitely a year to remember in India. After breaking all-time monthly volume records twice in a row in February and March, the market sees a new market…
Hyundai i40 * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Typically peaking at the start of the year, the Irish new car market typically slows down as the months go by and 2012 is no different, with April down 49% on March but more worryingly…
Audi A4 * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The reason why I keep separating Station Wagons (SW) data each month in Italy is because this is one of the last countries in the world (with Sweden and Slovakia) to still be extremely keen…
VW Tiguan * NOW UPDATED with the Top 50 best-selling models! Click on title to see. Thanks to Alex * The Norwegian new car market is down 4% in April to 10,876 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 45,690 units, up 1% on 2011. Like in Germany, Volkswagen manages to…
Volvo V50 * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * After being artificially boosted in the wake of tax rises on April 1, the Finnish new car market significantly cools down at only 3,901 registrations in April, down 64% year-on-year and bringing the year-to-date total…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Alex * Thanks to Alex we are adding a new country to our monthly updates: Iceland! The Icelandic new car market continues to recover after being annihilated in 2008-09, up a huge 149%…
Peugeot 508 * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * As usual the first cab off the rank for monthly updates is Sweden and the news are not good: down 19% year-on-year to 23,336 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 91,312 units, down 7%. The…
Peugeot 3008 * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * At 108,308 units over the first 3 weeks of April, French new car sales seem to have stabilised around -5% year-on-year now that the comparison with the scrappage scheme-boosted first Quarter of 2011 has ended.…
Peugeot 208 * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Now that the year-on-year comparison with scrappage scheme-boosted months is over (it ended in March 2011), the French car market is starting to look better: only down 5% this week at 27,858 units. Peugeot takes…
Fiat Siena * See the Top 150 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Brazilian car market is down 10% year-on-year during the first half of April at 134,222 registrations, bringing the 906,977 units, down 2% on 2011. After a full month of domination of the Fiat Uno,…
Citroen C3. Picture by Ivan Barinov, all rights reserved. * See the 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to STAC * The French car market seems to slow down its fall this week at just -1% year-on-year to 41,600 registrations. Citroen starts the month with a…
BMW 5 Series * See the Top 235 best-selling models over 4 months 2011 by clicking on 'Read more' below! * Granted, it's not the most up-to-date numbers, but thanks to Lancia Lover from www.autoweek.nl, I am able to share with you for the very first time in BestSellingCars history…
Fiat Linea Turkish car sales continue to deliver outrageous growth numbers month after month: +47% in April at 53,835 units and up 70% year-to-date at 176,730. The Renault Symbol is the best-selling car in Turkey again with 3,571 sales and 6.4% share, but it nearly got kicked out by the…
Holden Cruze II * Now with the Top 100 best-selling models ranking: click on 'Read more' at end of post * Australian car sales are down 9% in April at 74,214 registrations and down 3% year-on-year at 322,678 units. The Holden Commodore is the best selling model for the third…
Suzuki Swift * Now with the Top 10 best-selling Passenger Cars: click on 'Read more' at end of post * Car sales are down 1% this month in New Zealand at 5,610 registrations. For the second time in 2011 the Suzuki Swift takes the leadership in the models ranking, certainly…