Opel Ampera * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Rutger for the explanations * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * New car sales in the Netherlands are up 6% year-on-year in December to 18,306 registrations, bringing the Full Year 2012 total…
The 2nd generation Dacia Logan should help it increase its market share in 2013... * See the Top 85 best-selling models and Top 50 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The fall continues for the Romanian new car market: after hitting an all-time high of 343,080 registrations in 2008,…
Dacia Dokker * See the Top 80 best-selling models and Top 35 All-brands by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * Another catastrophic month for new car sales in Romania: December is down 37% year-on-year to 4,828 registrations, bringing the Full Year 2012 total…
The Toyota Aqua is the most successful nameplate launch in Japan in at least 20 years! * See the Top 30 best-selling models and Top 14 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Boosted by government subsidies for the purchase of clean vehicles, the Japanese new 'regular' car market is up a…
Subaru Impreza XV * See the Top 30 best-selling models and Top 14 All-brands by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * New 'regular' car sales in Japan resist quite well in December at just -3% year-on-year to 214,429 registrations, bringing the Final Year…
Mercedes B-Class * NOW UPDATED with the Top 50 All-brands ranking + Top 300 models! See title * There is now a Top 364 All-models ranking available here with splits between Golf/Golf Plus and many others In a gloomy European context, German new car sales have remained very solid in 2012,…
Mini Countryman * See the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 45 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Sales of new imported Passenger Cars are up a very healthy 15% year-on-year to 300,594 registrations in 2012, breaking the 300,000 annual unit-barrier for the first time in 15 years! As it…
VW Up! * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * Every quarter we have access to sales of imported vehicles in Japan, reported by a different organisation, the Japan Automobile Importers Association. Note that from now…
VW Tiguan * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Austrian new car market is down 6% year-on-year in 2012 to 336,010 registrations, and the most popular model in the country this year is familiar: the VW Golf is in the lead for potentially…
Will the Renault Captur be as successful in Switzerland in 2013 as the Subaru XV was in 2012? * Listen to my interview here * * See my previous interviews on World Radio Switzerland by clicking on the title! * Last week I had the honour of being interviewed by…
VW Touran * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 30 brands by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * December new cars sales are down 21% year-on-year in December in Austria to 18,421 registrations, bringing the Full Year 2012 total to 336,010…
The VW Up! is the first model to sell over 10,000 units in a single year in Denmark. * See the Top 100 best-selling models and Top 30 brands by clicking on the title! * In spite of a month of December down 30%, the Danish new car market establishes a…
Fiat 500 * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * Danish new car sales are down a worrying 30% year-on-year in December, however the Full Year 2012 still reaches a record 170,763 units, up 0.4% on…
Citroen C3 * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The freefall continues for new car sales in Greece: after dropping by 17% in 2009, 36% in 2010 and 31% in 2011, it is down 40% this year to 58,476 registrations, the weakest annual result since…
Peugeot 208 * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * We have unfortunately become accustomed to month after month of deep decline for the Greek new car market, and December is no different: down 34% year-on-year…