Brilliance sales shoot up 473.7% in Chile thanks to the new Konect SUV. 14/03 update: Now with the Top 25 models. The Chilean new vehicle market dives -12.1% year-on-year in January to 32.104 registrations. Chevrolet (-5.7%) limits its fall to half that of the market and cements its brand leadership…
The Volvo XC40 hits its highest ever Swiss ranking at #5. The Swiss new car market drops -10.2% year-on-year in January to 18.788 units. 4x4 sales are down -4.9% to 10.155 for a much improved 54.1% share vs. 51% a year ago, while alternatively fuelled registrations shoot up 110.4% to…
The Kia Soluto is inside the Vietnamese Top 5 for the second time in 3 months. New vehicle sales in Vietnam start the year in the worst fashion: down -52.8% year-on-year to 15.787 units, partly due to the Lunar New Year falling in January 2020 vs. February 2019, resulting in…
The Hyundai Venue tops recent launches in January. Picture Caranddriver. Replicating the US situation we just covered, the monthly reporting stampede which started with GM in late 2018 has also spread to Canada with all manufacturers that stopped monthly US reporting bar Nissan/Mitsubishi now doing the same for Canada, leaving…
Toyota RAV4 sales shoot up 35.2% year-on-year in January. Monthly U.S. sales reporting is no more. From Tesla in 2017, to General Motors in 2018, Ford Motor and FCA in 2019, this month Nissan, the VW Group, BMW Group, Mercedes and Jaguar Land Rover have decided to follow suit and will…
The Toyota RAV4 is the most popular vehicle in Estonia in January. The Estonian new car market slips down -1.4% year-on-year in January to 2.294 registrations. Toyota (+100%) blissfully ignores this and exactly doubles its sales year-on-year to reach 20% share vs. 16% over the FY2019. Skoda (+1.6%) is stable…
The Audi e-Tron is the best-selling vehicle in Norway in January. New car sales in Norway rise 6.2% year-on-year in January to 9.561 units. Zero-emissions cars soar 24.3% to 4.236 units and 44.3% share vs. 37.8% a year ago. Hybrid sales surge 41.4% to 3.270 and 34.2% share vs. 25.7%…
167 Porsche Taycan found a new German home in January. 13/02 update: Now with Top 50 private sales models. New car sales in Germany skid down -7.3% year-on-year in January to 246.300 units, with business fleet sales (-5.1%) resisting better than the market at 168.469 and a whopping 68.4% share…
The previous generation VW Polo remains in production in South Africa, sold under the Polo Vivo name. The South African new vehicle market edges down -5% year-on-year in January to 40.259 registrations. Toyota (-26.8%) is hit very hard this month but nevertheless manages to hold onto the manufacturers top spot…
The Toyota RAV4 scores its first ever Top 5 finish in Poland. New light vehicle sales in Poland slide down -14.5% to 43.866 registrations including LCVs in January, -13.7% to 38.889 when only looking at passenger cars. Company sales account for 66.1% share (28.982) vs. 33.9% private sales (14.884) while petrol…
The VW Touareg breaks into the Romanian Top 10. Picture eblogauto.ro The Romanian new car market skids down -10.5% year-on-year in January to 12.489 units. Homegrown leader Dacia (-32.2%) pays the price of an unusually high score a year ago in January 2019 and falls to 28.6% share vs. 31.1%…
The Toyota Corolla is #1 in Pakistan for the first time since last June. Thanks to PAMA we have access to sales of locally-produced models in Pakistan which gives a pretty accurate picture of the best-selling nameplates in the country as high duties limit the number of new cars imported.…
The Peugeot 208 hits a record 7% share in January, 1 in 4 sold being the e-208. 11/02 update: Now with Top 270 All-models. 4/02 update: Now with Top 10 EV models. After an artificially bloated December (+27.7%), French January sales logically fall back -13.4% to 134.232 units, the weakest…
The new RAV4 helps Toyota sales up 20.4% in January. The Russian new light vehicle market snaps a third year-on-year gain in the past 12 months in January at a timid +1.8% to 102.102 registrations, BMW and Mini year-ago volumes having been removed as the Group is now reporting sales…
The new Seltos helps Kia to a record market share. Picture ozroamer.com.au There is still no end in sight for the Australian new car market woes, with January sales marking a 22nd consecutive month of year-on-year drop down another steep -12.5% to 71.731 registrations. This is the slowest January tally…