Porsche Panamera sales are up 443.7% year-on-year. After collapsing -78.4% in February, retail sales of imported cars in China drop -35.3% in March to 61.260 units, a better hold than the wholesales market (-43.3%). Q1 2020 volumes are down -39.5% to 153.817. Lexus (-29.6%) reclaims the brands top spot for…
After January 2019 (world car market) and April 2019 (Chinese market), BSCB and I are featured for the third time in French newspaper Le Monde, one of the most important and widely respected newspapers in the world according to Wikipedia. The article, published in yesterday's edition (dated March 23) explores how different…
Honda Brio sales are up 20.6%. Our Indonesian coverage now includes All-brands retail volumes and a monthly All-models ranking, upgraded from a Top 20 models. The Full Year 2019 article has now been updated with the Top 190 All-models. Indonesia has been slow to enact COVID-19 restriction measures and as…
The Nissan Micra ranks #7 in New Caledonia in March. New Caledonia, a French overseas archipelago located north-east of Australia, was in lockdown between March 24 and April 19 (vs. March 17 to at least May 11 for the French mainland), and seems to have wrestled COVID-19 to the ground with…
The MG ZS is estimated to top the Chilean charts for the 2nd time in March. The February 2020 post has now been updated with the Top 25 models. Following the spread of COVID-19, a 90-day state of catastrophe was announced in Chile on March 18, followed by a national…
The Hyundai Grandeur posts it largest volume since December 2016. 20/04 update: Now with Top 10 foreign models. South Korea has managed to wrestle COVID-19 to the ground for now, going from #2 most affected country in the world as of March 6 when we initially published February 2020 data…
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The Suzuki S-Presso leaps up to #4 overall in Uruguay in March. In Uruguay, various COVID-19 containment measures were introduced in mid-March, and major restrictions on movement followed in late March. As a result the country's new car market has seen a relatively moderate impact in March at -24.8% year-on-year…
For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, Chinese car sales are up year-on-year. According to data released by the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA), new passenger car sales in China have spectacularly bounced back up 14% year-on-year over the week of April 7-12, marking the first…
Before the coronavirus outbreak, the auto manufacturing industry was in the midst of a breakthrough. Advancements in technology placed the sector in a good position to address consumer needs thanks to the power of AI and automation. However, everything seems to point to a bleak future now that the coronavirus…
The new Toyota Yaris has just landed in Cyprus. With 750 coronavirus cases confirmed as of April 17, Cyprus has been relatively unscathed, and as a result the only significant measure taken by the local government was the closing of international borders on March 15. According to our contact in…
The Toyota Aygo is up 82.8% year-on-year in a market down -60.7%. Greece increased COVID-19 related restrictions all through March, starting with national school closures in affected areas (March 10) and retail closures (March 16) and culminating in a nationwide lockdown from March 23 onwards. As a result the new…
Mercedes manages the only single-digit drop in the Top 20. After strict lockdowns stifled February wholesales down -79.1% and just as the rest of the world gets hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese new vehicle market is already bouncing back quite spectacularly, as we already mentioned in the past week.…
1 in 7 new cars sold in Norway in March is an Audi e-Tron. On March 12, Norway imposed a two-week national lockdown to stem the spread of COVID-19. As a result new car sales in the country plunge -32.2% year-on-year in March to 12.451 units, pulling the year-to-date tally…
The Changan UNI-T has landed in China. As a teaser to our upcoming March wholesales update, we are going through the new locally-produced launches for the month. With the industry frozen in place for most of February, the new launches remain few (just 3 this month) and, most strikingly, very…