Fiat Tipo in Tirana, Albania in August 2018. One of the 10 countries we dashed through in 10 days last August with a Dacia Logan was Albania, for which there has never been any official new car sales data published. I have to admit one of the motivations for conducting…
Skoda Fabia in Perast, Montenegro One of the 10 Eastern European countries we visited in 10 days in a Dacia Logan last year was Montenegro, population 678.000. There hasn't been any official data for this market since 2014, so I will draw on my observations on the touristic Adriatic coast in…
The Dacia Sandero is estimated to be the best-selling vehicle in Andorra in 2018. My recent Peugeot 3008 test drive took me to the Principality of Andorra between France and Spain and it was a great opportunity to estimate the best-sellers in one of the tiniest countries in Europe. Quite…
Volkswagen is the #1 brand in Belgium, with the Golf topping the models charts. Consult 30 years of Belgian Historical Data here. This article has been updated with the Top 290 All-models. New car sales in Belgium edge up 0.7% in 2018 to 549.632 registrations. Volkswagen (+4.5%) drives past Renault (-1.4%)…
The Mitsubishi Outlander is the most popular vehicle with Icelandic private buyers in 2018. Consult over 15 years of Iceland Historica Data here. This article has been updated with the Top 100 models. Iceland is back on BSCB after a two-year hiatus, but the market suffers a harsh drop in…
Volkswagen sales shoot up 35.5% year-on-year in Guadeloupe. New passenger car sales in Guadeloupe, a French overseas archipelago located in the Caribbean Sea home to 398,000 inhabitants step up 5.6% year-on-year in 2018 to 17.620. Peugeot (+3%) remains comfortably in the lead with 16.6% share while Renault (-1.8%) skids down to…
Citroen posts the largest gain in the Martinique Top 6 in 2018. New car sales in Martinique, a French overseas island located in the Caribbean Sea home to 380,000 inhabitants, gain 5.8% year-on-year in 2018 to 15.700 units (our 2017 article featured sales including light commercials). Peugeot (+10.8%) frankly outpace the…
Hyundai breaks into the Top 5 brands in French Guiana. For only the second time on BSCB, we can share with you official sales data for French Guiana (simply Guyane in French), a French overseas territory located on the Atlantic Ocean coast in South America, west of Brazil (see map…
One in five passenger cars sold in Mayotte in 2018 is a Dacia. Today we add a new market on BSCB! New car sales in Mayotte, an overseas French territory located North of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean and home of 256,000 inhabitants, are up a strong +8.9% to 1.412 units. The…
The Renault Clio now outsells its archenemy the Peugeot 208 in Reunion. This article has been updated with the Top 20 brands. The new light vehicle market is up a sturdy 5.9% to 28.189 passenger cars, up 4.2% to 32.349 including light commercials in the Réunion Island, an overseas French territory…
The Fiat Panda is the best-selling vehicle in Greece in March. New car sales in Greece skid down a harsh 13.9% year-on-year in March to just 9.518 units, tilting the year-to-date tally into negative territory at -1.8% to 26.289. As it was the case last May and after falling as…
The Kia Sportage (+46.9%) is the best-selling passenger car in New Zealand this month. New vehicle sales in New Zealand skid down -5.4% to 13.271, leading to a Q1 tally down -3.7% to 38.855. Toyota (-29.9%) continues to freefall but holds onto the brands pole position at 12.8% above Ford…
Honda sales surge 54.7% year-on-year in Singapore in March. The Singaporean new car market is back in positive territory in March at +3.4% year-on-year to 7.239 units, leading to a year-to-date volume up 15.2% at 20.506. Honda (+54.7%) roars back into the pole position, also leading YTD (+38.1%) and knocking…
Renault dominates the Uruguayan market again. It's not a good start of the year for the Uruguayan market in freefall in March at -23.8% to 3.145 units leading to a Q1 volume down -20.6% to 9.253. Renault (-8.7%) scores the smallest decline on the podium leading to a mammoth 18.8% share,…
Chinese EV maker Bordrin at the Shanghai Auto Show. The Shanghai Auto Show opened earlier this week in an uncertain climate for the Chinese new vehicle market. As we have noted in our Q1 2019 update, wholesales of passenger cars in China have now endured 9 consecutive months of year-on-year…