The Toyota Corolla is getting closer to its first #1 finish in Australia. * See the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 48 All-brands by clicking on the title! * For the first time since December 2011, new car sales in Australia slow down at -2% year-on-year to 92,662 registrations,…
The BMW 5 Series is #1 in Ireland for the 2nd month in a row. Strange? Yep. * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 30 All-brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Ireland are up a sleek 27% year-on-year in September to a still…
Innovative technology and design consultancy Cambridge Design Partnership today unveiled the final steering wheel design for the Bloodhound supersonic car. A specialist team of CDP engineers have been working on the Bloodhound Project since January, when they took on the vital work of finalising the design of the steering wheel…
GAZ logo This is Part 6 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are moving 940km North East of Omsk to… Tomsk (hard to not confuse the two but I will do my best). And I am happy to…
Peugeot 308 and VW Golf * See the Top 200 best-selling models and Top 45 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The Spanish new car market is definitely taking us on a roller-coaster of emotions (so to speak) this year! After gaining 16% in July but falling back to…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 30 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * Finnish new car sales are up 3% year-on-year in September to 8,139 registrations, reducing the year-to-date fall to 9% at 79,999 units. For the third time in the last 4 months, the Skoda…
Suzuki SX4 S-Cross * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! Thanks Zsolti * Excellent showing for the Hungarian new car market: September sales are up 32% year-on-year to 4,680 units, bringing the year-to-date total back into positive at +4% and 41,260 registrations. The…
Renault Captur * See the Top 80 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The French new car market is up a shy 3% year-on-year in September to 142,211 registrations, only in positive because this month had one more working day than September 2012. The year-to-date total is still…
Renault Trafic * See the Top 80 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Sales of Light Commercial Vehicles are down 3% year-on-year in September to 29,175 registrations, bringing the year-to-datet total to 266,948 units, down 7% on 2012. The Renault Kangoo hits its highest market share in one…
Volvo V60 * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 35 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Swedish new car sales seem to have turned around: September is the third consecutive month of year-on-year gain at a very healthy +11% to 24,388 registrations, reducing the year-to-date fall to…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 35 best-selling models and Top 30 All-brands by clicking on the title! * September figures are starting to trickle through, and Iceland is the first off the starting blocks this month. Slowly but surely, the Icelandic new car market is going into hibernation as…
Audi A3 * See the Full article by clicking on the title! * Once again I ask: what better way to finish one month and start a new one than going through our traditional World Roundup? I don't think there is any! Before we start, don't forget to catch the…
The Toyota Probox is the most popular used Japanese import in Omsk. This is Part 5 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this Long Term Photo Report here. We are now travelling almost 1000 km South East of Yekaterinburg to Omsk, the start of…
Hyundai i30 and Australian Toyota Corolla hatchback * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Now that we have explored in detail the July worldwide sales charts, it's time to go through the year-to-date rankings to extract longer-term trends. The fight for the title of…
The progressive spread of the new gen sedan should help the Corolla keep the worldwide lead... * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Austin * Now that Middle-Eastern figures are out in the open, thanks to the hard work of Austin I…