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UPDATE: since June 22 my article is also featured on the Auto Express website BestSellingCarsBlog is featured in this week's issue of Auto Express, Britain's biggest-selling weekly car magazine, with an article written by myself titled "Worlds apart - best-selling global cars you've never heard of". I have selected 15…
Prepare for blood... Discover the Top 8 trends currently affecting the Chinese market below. China's new vehicle market growth is smoothing out. The perception out there is that the entire market is slowing down, whereas only its growth is for now - a big difference. Some analysts say this is the beginning of…
Lindsay Chappell this week published a fascinating article on Automotive News USA about the growing power of Hispanic buyers in the U.S. market. I summarise it below, you can read the full article here: "Sales to Hispanics outpacing the market" What's the weight of Hispanic buyers in the U.S. market? 54 million Hispanics…
The self-driving car as imagined by Mercedes-Benz Recently Barclays' auto analyst Brian Johnson forecast in "Disruptive Mobility" that self-driving cars will eliminate most multicar households, reduce the number of cars on American roads from 250 million to below 100 million and cut U.S. annual auto sales by 40% to just 9.5 million units…
Tibet is one destination BSCB will explore in 2015. Picture courtesy reurinkjan 3 months ago when BSCB celebrated its 4th anniversary, I could declare for the first time that BSCB had been accessed from every single country in the world since its creation thanks to one visit from North Korea. Today we celebrate a…
My wish for 2015: that BMW finally thinks about a production version of the 2008 M1 Hommage Here in Sydney where BestSellingCarsBlog has its headquarters we are ahead of the entire world bar New Zealand in easing into the New Year. So it's probably with a little bit of advance…
Chevrolet Silverado 3500 A recent article published on the U.S. version of Automotive News brings to light a fascinating recent development on the new heavy duty pickup market. An ongoing explosion of domestic energy production — primarily from a highly controversial extraction process commonly called fracking — is transforming rural communities across North…
Today marks the 4th anniversary of BestSellingCarsBlog! On October 30th 2010, I wrote the very first article in this blog, and at the time I had absolutely no idea whether this venture would interest a dozen or a million people around the world. It was more a way for me…
7 million units later… (1997 Toyota Prius) Toyota confirmed it sold its 7 millionth hybrid vehicle worldwide in September, 17 years after first launching the Prius in Japan in 1997. The total includes 3.3 million sold in Japan, 2.5 million in the United States, 770,000 in Europe and more than…
General Motors crashed Chevrolet down in Europe. A good thing? On paper yes, in practice no. In December 2013, General Motors announced it would kill the Chevrolet brand in Europe to concentrate on ailing Opel and its UK sister brand Vauxhall. A reshuffling of priorities that made sense given Opel racked up…
The GAC Trumpchi GS5 features in the Hollywood blockbuster 'Transformers - Age of Extinction' * See the Top 76 All-models and Top 43 All-brands rankings by clicking on the title! * This is Part 5 of my special Strategy Series on Chinese manufacturers at home. You can check out previous…
Dongfeng Xiaokang V27 I will resume shortly my Strategy Series "How can Chinese brands unlock their home market?", but first a piece of information that could have a big impact on Chinese manufacturers in the near future. According to Autonews China, last month President Xi Jinping's leadership team announced a plan to…
The Ford Mondeo is one of China's best-selling all-new models in 2014. If you are a regular BSCB reader you will know by now that the future growth potential of the Chinese market lies in secondary cities and countryside regions. Another illustration of this potential is the race for dealerships…
DS 5LS On June 1, PSAPeugeot Citroen appointed the first ever CEO for the premium DS brand: Yves Bonnefont, PSA's former director of group strategy. DS is already a stand-alone brand in China and set to become the same in Europe as well, tasking Bonnefont with elevating it from a tiny-but-successful…
The 1940 Bantam BRC40 is one of the ancestors of the Jeep. While Jeep had never before in its 73-year history topped 60,000 US sales in a month, it delivered an out-of-this world 70,203 in May, passing Kia, teasing Hyundai which also broke its all-time record this month, doubling Volkswagen…
