Chevrolet Onix * NOW UPDATED with the Top 150 best-selling models! Click on title to see * New car sales in Brazil are up a very healthy 15% year-on-year over the first half of December to 181,623 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 3,472,285 units, up 7% on 2011. Traditionally extremely…
Ford Ecosport * See the Top 150 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Brazil are up 5% year-on-year at mid-October with 149,377 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 2,816,163 units, also up 5% on 2011. Almost one year after its launch, the new generation…
Chevrolet Cobalt * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Given we are now halfway through 2012, I will write a specific post exploring the year-to-date models ranking and their year-on-year evolution for the Top 10 biggest car markets in the world. First one to…
The Fiat Palio seems to have plateaued at 4.6% market share * NOW UPDATED with the Top 150 best-selling models! Click on title to see * Car sales in Brazil are down 9% year-on-year in May to 274,490 units, bringing the year-to-date total to 1,291,913 registrations, down 4% on 2011. The podium…
Fiat Uno * See the Top 150 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * For once, Brazil new car sales are down 9% year-on-year at 235,896 registrations, bringing the 2012 year-to-date total even with last year at 488,593 units. Interestingly this means Brazil is below India over the period!…
Fiat Palio * See the Top 150 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Brazilian car market is up 5% over the first half of February at 136,786 registrations. The VW Gol leads the models ranking with 11,293 sales and 8.3% share, nearly one percentage point above the…
2012 Fiat Palio * See the Top 175 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Brazilian car sales are down 11% year-on-year with 157,514 registrations during the first half of December. Once again the Fiat Uno is getting dangerously close to the VW Gol with 11,900 sales and 7.6%…
VW Gol At 2,671,338 registrations (+14%), the Brazilian car market is now the 4th biggest in the world, below the USA, China, Japan and Germany. Car sales in Brazil simply doubled in 5 years! On top for the 21st year, the VW Gol saw its vastly improved 5th generation launch…
Fiat Palio The car market explodes in Brazil in 2007: +28% at 2,342,059 units! That's way above France (2,064,999) and just under Italy (2,506,323) and Great Britain (2,404,007)... The VW Gol is still the best seller (243,164 sales, 10.4% share) but this year the Fiat Palio was breathing down its…
After +9% in 2004 and +10% in 2005, the Brazilian car market accelerates its growth, up 13% in 2006 at 1,830,402 registrations... The VW Gol celebrates 19 years on top of the Brazilian ranking out of the last 20, and delivers 189,132 units this year for a 10.3% market share.…
Brazilian car sales are up a healthy 10% this year at 1,620,657 registrations. The VW Gol's reign reaches Year 18, even though the 4th generation launched this year left car critics unimpressed with a leap backwards in interior design. VW's cash cow sells 179,457 units (-1%) for a 11.1% market…
At 1,478,859 registrations, the Brazilian market is up 9% in 2004. No change on top, the VW Gol is number 1 for the 17th year, but sees its gargantuan market share slip down a little bit each year, this time at 12% thanks to 177,111 sales (-2%). Boosted by the…
Chevrolet Corsa Brazilian car sales are down 3% in 2003 at 1,352,220 registrations. The VW Gol stays comfortable leader albeit at -13% and 180,659 units for a 13.4% share. In actual fact, the Top 7 stays unchanged year-on-year, with the Chevrolet Corsa at #2 with 121,122 sales (-8%). VW Gol…
Solid year for the traditional two Brazilian best-sellers: the VW Gol delivers 265,898 units, ahead of the Fiat Palio at 163,706 sales, the Fiat Uno at 114,539 sales and the Chevrolet Celta at 90,159 units. Quatro Rodas figures now split hatchback and sedans versions, which means the Chevrolet Corsa Sedan…
I could only access data for the first 5 months of 1998, when the VW Gol ranked #1 with over 21,000 sales each month, adding up to 119,044 units and 17.4% market share over the period. The Gol is also the best selling car in Brazil in 1999 and 2000.…