Suzuki Grand Vitara. Picture by Christian Henkel, all rights reserved. * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Icelandic car sales are up a heartwarming 37% year-on-year in June to 1,601 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 4,889 units, up 60% on 2011. If you…
VW Polo. Picture by Captain Andrey. * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * After Brazil and France, Iceland is the third country on Best Selling Cars Blog for which I am now able to share with you an intermediate ranking at mid-month. In fact,…
Toyota Auris * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Alex * Icelandic new car sales are up 83% on last month to 1,334 registrations in May, bringing the year-to-date total to 3,288 units in 5 months compared to 5,034 over the Full…
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%…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 80 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Icelandic car sales are up an encouraging 61% in 2011 to 5,475 sales, however still very far from its 20,000+ level of before the 2008 economic crisis. The best-selling model in Iceland this year makes so…
VW Polo * See the Top 60 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Icelandic new car market is slowly recovering from the 2008-09 crisis, with sales up 32% on 2009 to a still extremely shy 3,395 units. The new generation VW Polo is an instant hit in…
VW Polo * See the Top 40 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * Annihilated by the GFC (the market was at -89% at its worst over 5 months 2009), Icelandic car sales are slowly getting back into shape with +29% over 7 months 2010 at…
Suzuki Swift * See the Top 60 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * 2009 is 'annus horribilus' for car sales in Iceland, the market contracting by 89% year-on-year at its worst around mid-year, finishing at -76% and 2,570 registrations... In this context and for the first time in…
Toyota Land Cruiser 120 * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * During the second half of the year, the Icelandic car market was hit full frontal by the economic crisis and all but stopped. Over the full year, car sales are down a dramatic…
Toyota Yaris near Olafsvik, Iceland August 2008 * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * During the first half of 2008 (or just before the GFC), 8,885 cars were sold in Iceland, and Toyota dominated the landscape. The Toyota Yaris is the best-selling car in…
Toyota Yaris in Iceland, August 2008 * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * After hitting its record year in 2005, the Icelandic new car market stays at extremely high levels the two following years with 20,198 registrations clocked up in 2006 (-3%) and 19,316…
Toyota Corolla * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Years go by, and Toyota is still omnipresent in Iceland: it places 5 models in the Top 6 both in 2004 and 2005! The Toyota Corolla is the best-selling model in the country in 2004…
Toyota Land Cruiser * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Toyota continues to completely dominate the Icelandic models ranking, with the Land Cruiser taking the lead this year with 645 sales, up a massive 105% on 2002. The Toyota Corolla ranks #2 at 634…
Toyota RAV4 * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Icelanders love Toyotas, and not much else. The Japanese brand monopolises the Icelandic best-selling models podium in 2001 and places 5 models in the Top 5 in 2002! The best-seller both years is the Toyota…