The Proton X70 breaks its all-time volume record this month. Picture paultan.org The Malaysian new car market continues to be boosted by the government's stimulus plan in July, with sales surging +13.2% year-on-year to 57.552 units, meaning the year-to-date tally is now down -33.1% to 232.245. The Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA)…
The Ford Kuga breaks into the Turkish Top 15 in July. 27/08 update: Now with Top 25 models. It's another seemingly euphoric month for new light vehicle sales in Turkey, up almost 5-fold or a surreal 387.5% year-on-year to 87.401 units, boosting the year-to-date tally up 60.3% to 341.469. Passenger…
Most people think high-quality car accessories only belong in Ferraris. However, most of the best car accessories in 2020 are easy to use, affordable, and compatible in most vehicles. Basically, there's no excuse for not getting hooked up with at least one of these top car accessories in 2020. 1)…
Clouds on the horizon for the Chinese market? Picture: the new generation Haval H6, launched in August. Figures released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) could indicate the end of the much-admired post-pandemic rebound in China. After April (+4.4%), May (+14.5%), June (+11.6%) and July (+16.4%) all showed gravity-defying surges, wholesales of…
The Chevrolet Onix remains the most popular vehicle in Colombia. 25/08 update: Now with Top 30 brands and Top 75 models. Colombia has added almost 265.000 new Covid-19 cases over the past month alone, with total cases now nearing 400.000 (as of August 11 when this article was first published)…
Claire Danes plays bipolar CIA operator Carrie Mathison in Homeland. Exactly a year ago we published an article praising the car choices made when creating the dystopian world of TV Series The Handmaid's Tale, as well as the recreation of of 1969 Los Angeles in the latest Quentin Tarantino flick Once…
The Kia Stonic is back to the YTD pole position in Cyprus. According to data shared by our local partners SEMO Cyprus and INNOSOFT, the Cyprus new car market remains a fair distance below its year-ago level in July at -18.2% to 1.057 units. That's actually almost the same drop as…
Wuling retail sales are up 41.6% even before the introduction of the Hongguang MINI EV. Pictured: Hongguang Plus. Data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) shows July retail sales of Passenger Vehicles in China up a sturdy 7.9% year-on-year to 1.625.000 units, the largest increase in over two years:…
The Audi Q8 breaks into the Top 20 imports for the first time in July. After a logical slump last month due to unusually high year-ago volumes, the Chinese imports market bounces back up 8.4% year-on-year in July to 85.215 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -22.7% to 518.954.…
The Chevrolet Silverado breaks into the global Top 5. Picture trucktrend.com Our Full Year 2019 Top 1300 best-selling cars article has been so popular that we are back for the same exercise, this time studying the Top 800 best-selling cars in the world halfway through 2020. To create this much-anticipated…
Chinese MG, launched in Saudi Arabia in 2015, is up to #6 with 6.2% share in July. The Covid-19 crisis has put an end to an incredible run for the Saudi new car market, with Q2 2020 marking the first quarterly decline since 2018 at -11.3% to 110.041 units. This…
The Nissan Patrol is the best-selling vehicle in UAE both in July and YTD. New car sales in the United Arab Emirates drop -32.4% year-on-year in July to 10.436 units vs. 15.433 in July 2019, pulling the year-to-date tally down -28.6% to 86.770. After Q1 volumes edged down -8.7% but…
The Suzuki Carry holds 18.3% of the Indonesian wholesales market in July. Indonesian new vehicle wholesales continue to be pummelled by the Covid-19 pandemic at -71.6% year-on-year in July to just 25.283 units, pulling the year-to-date tally down -49.8% to 286.215. Retail sales only fare marginally better at -59.1% to…
The Nissan Patrol is up to #2 overall in Oman so far in 2020. New car sales in Oman crash -41% year-on-year over the first 7 months of 2020 to 36.730. Even though Q1 sales were holding very well at -2.8%, the last few months have been nothing short of…
The new Chevrolet Captiva already ranks just outside the Top 20. Picture aljarida.com The Kuwaiti new car market stumbles down -36.6% year-on-year over the first 7 months of 2020 to 38.736 units. After Q1 volumes sank -20.3%, April imploded -80.2% to 1.601 vs. 8.085 in April 2019, May worsened to…