VW Golf VII * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 42 All-brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Austria are down 6% year-on-year in August, bringing the year-to-date total to 222,810 units, down 7% on 2012. The VW Golf is in great shape thanks,…
Honda City (Thai model shown) * See the Top 10 best-selling local models by clicking on the title! * As is the tradition on BSCB, each month I share with you the sales of locally produced models provided by the Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers Association, a pretty accurate representation of the most…
Hyundai Avante Coupe * See the Top 52 All-local models by clicking on the title! * 110,338 new local models found a buyer in South Korea in August, bringing the year-to-date total to 909,374 units, up 1% on 2012. The race to the title of 2013 best-selling model continues, and…
Dacia Dokker * See the Top 175 All-models and Top 30 All-brands by clicking on the title! Thanks Kalo * The Bulgarian new car market is estimated to be up a shiny 9% year-on-year in August to 2,096 registrations, reducing the year-to-date decline to -1% at 15,783 units. After the…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 32 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The Estonian new car market gains 5% year-on-year in August to 1,589 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total back into positive at 13.665 units, 22 more than at the same stage last…
BMW 5 Series * See the Top 35 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Singapore are down 11% year-on-year in August to 1,747 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 15,138 units, down a tough 20% on 2012. Down to #5 last month, BMW is…
VW Clasico * See the Top 10 best-selling models and Top 30 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Another very healthy month for Mexican new car sales, up 6% year-on-year in August to 88,332 registrations, which brings the year-to-date total to 676,964 units, up 9% on 2012. After ending…
Ford Ranger * NOW UPDATED with the Top 25 models and Top 57 All-brands! Click on title to see * Another huge month for new car sales in New Zealand (yes there are still markets out there hitting record heights!): commercial vehicles are up 17% year-on-year to 2,602 registrations, the highest…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 15 best-selling models and Top 30 All-brands by clicking on the title! * After some really good news in July (+19%), Croatian new car sales are back to hell: down 11% year-on-year in August to just 1,539 registrations, the lowest monthly figure in at least…
VW Caddy * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Latvian new car market is down a harsh 15% year-on-year in August to 911 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 8,109 units, down 7% on 2012. Sales charts in Latvia are traditionally very volatile…
Bogdan 110 * See the Top 240 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Ukraine are up a whopping 42% year-on-year in August to 27,850 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 143,421 units, up 9% on 2012. Big surprise atop the models ranking: after delivering…
Lada 4x4 * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 55 All-brands by clicking on the title! * 6th consecutive month of year-on-year decline for the Russian new car market, down 10% in August to 213,915 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 1,799,805 units, down 7% on 2012. The…
The SRT Viper is #255 with 381 units sold so far this year. * See the Top 274 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * After going through the August sales data, let's try and extract some longer-term trends by looking into the year-to-date charts. The US market is…
Fiat Siena * NOW UPDATED with the Top 150 best-selling models and Top 20 brands! See title * Potentially the result of the social unrest that has characterised the country in the last couple of months, the Brazilian new car market falls deeper into recession in August, down a dramatic…
We welcome the Infiniti Q50 at #131 this month in the US * NOW UPDATED with the the Top 256 All-models and Top 40 All-brands! See title * In complete contrast with a European market back to its (very) wobbly self, new light vehicle sales in the US are absolutely and positively euphoric in August: up…