The Toyota Hilux is the best-selling vehicle in Bahrain so far this year. 8,029 new vehicles hit Bahraini roads over Q1 2024. Toyota easily tops the brands charts with 35.3% of the market ahead of Nissan at 9.7% and Hyundai at 8.1%. MG snaps a fantastic 4th place with a…
The Toyota Hilux is the best-selling vehicle in Yemen so far in 2024. 2,233 new vehicles found a Yemeni buyer over the first quarter of 2024. Toyota holds 95.1% of the market with Lexus at 2.5% and Suzuki at 1.3%. Model-wise, the Toyota Hilux takes the lead above the Toyota…
Hyundai Mighty The Syrian new vehicle market is virtually dead in 2024 with just 29 sales in the first three months of the year. The Hyundai Mighty ranks first above the Hyundai H1-Starex and Hyundai HR Truck, and that's it! Full Q1 2024 Top 3 All models ranking below. Syria…
Xiaomi SU7 Let's examine the newcomers in the Chinese wholesales charts for April. This month we have 12 new models hitting dealerships, 10 of them Chinese. I keep repeating this but once again this shows the extraordinary rate at which domestic manufacturers launch new models compared with foreign ones. To…
The Jaecoo J7 enters the South African Top 50 in April. 38,172 new vehicles found a South African home in April, marking a return to positive territory for the first time since July 2023 at +2.2% year-on-year. The year-to-date tally is now down -4% to 168,970. Exports freefall -23.9% to…
The Wuling Cloud ranks #24 this month in Indonesia. The Indonesian new vehicle wholesales market dive -17.4% year-on-year in April to just 48,637 units. This is dreadful result as April 2023 sales were already down -28.9% on the year prior. The year-to-date volume is now off -22.7% to 263,706. As…
The Renault Clio is the best-selling vehicle in Slovenia in April. New car sales in Slovenia step up 8.2% year-on-year in April to 4,694 units, leading to a year-to-date tally up 5% to 18,687. Volkswagen (-5.6%) easily remains the most popular carmaker in the country despite a year-on-year loss, holding…
The Dacia Sandero is #1 both for the month and year-to-date. 17,329 cars hit Portuguese roads in April, a 7.6% year-on-year gain. The year-to-date tally is now up 11.8% to 76,373. Dacia (-6.6%) manages a second ever monthly win despite declining YoY, after it did so exactly a year ago…
BYD sales are up 11-fold year-on-year in April. 5,224 new light vehicles found a buyer in Uruguay in April, that's 37.2% year-on-year improvement and the highest monthly gain this year so far. Chevrolet (+75%) doubts the market growth to 16.8% share, level with its YTD figure of 16.9%. Fiat (+38.8%)…
VW holds 14% of the Luxembourg market in April. New car sales in Luxembourg climb 5.7% year-on-year in April to 4,414 units, meaning the year-to-date market is now down -2.4% to 16,914. This is a solid performance given April 2023 was up 25% on the year prior. The top 2…
First Top 10 finish for the BYD Destroyer 05. According to data by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), the Chinese wholesales market is up 9.3% year-on-year to 2,359,000 units. This includes 2,002,000 Passenger Vehicles (+10.5%) and 357,000 Commercial Vehicles. Year-to-date, volumes are up 10.2% to 9,079,000 with Passenger…
Honda CR-V sales are up 80.3% year-on-year in April. The Mexican new light vehicle market is up a solid 13.9% year-on-year in April to 112,048. As it was the case in March this is the strongest April volume in 7 years: since April 2017 (114,486). The Top 4 brands all…
BYD sales are up 5-fold year-on-year in April. New car sales in Ukraine edge up 11% year-on-year in April to 5,728 units, leading to a year-to-date tally up 36.8% to 22,388. Toyota (+6.3%) remains by far the most popular carmaker in the country with 14.9% share, distancing an underperforming Renault…
The Toyota Innova Cross is up to #7 in Vietnam. Data by local association VAMA has the Vietnamese new vehicle market up 8.7% year-on-year in April to 24,350 sales, keeping in mind April 2023 was off -47.1% on the year prior. The year-to-date tally is down -11.1% to 82,515. When…
The Toyota RAV4 is the best-selling model in New Zealand in April. New vehicle sales in New Zealand retrograde -8.9% year-on-year in April to 9,238 units, the lowest volume since the pandemic. We are 30% below the 13,118 figure of April 2021. The year-to-date tally is down -10.4% to 43,101.…