The Indian car market is growing strongly in 2010 but interestingly it is not getting more fragmented along the way. The best selling car, the Maruti Alto, is logically increasing its sales month after month (it reached 30,147 units in September - as many as the US sales of Toyota…
In September, the European market is down 9% on 2009, due to the decline of its main markets: Germany, UK, France and Italy all slowed down this month. With the UK the top market this month due to the bi-annual registration change, all models that sold well in the UK…
The Turkish market has become very unstable in the last couple of months as far as the models ranking is concerned. #1 in 2009 but slowing down in the last few months, the Hyundai Accent Era is back on top in August with 5.7% market share, ahead of the Toyota…
The launch of a scrappage scheme in Russia has boosted the market: +55% in September 2010! The scheme has affected the model rankings greatly, benefitting the cheaper models. The 30-year old Lada 2105/2107 is leading, and after reaching no less than 10% of the market in the last few months,…
After an unusual month of August that saw the VW Golf take the lead for the first time in years with close to 6% of the market, the Swedish car market is back to normal in September with the Volvo V70 in first position at 7.9% market share, double the…
* See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Car sales figures in Macedonia are very rarely made available, so if you happen to have more recent data please make sure to get in touch. In 2007, Chevrolet lead the sales in Macedonia and the Chevrolet…
Vauxhall Insignia Twice a year, new car plates are released in the UK which results in exceptionally high sales numbers, in March and September. This September is 9% below 2009 at 335,246 sales but the year-to-date numbers are still up 8% at 1,635,659 sales. The Ford Fiesta stays ahead with…
-7% for the French car market in September 2010, which given the phasing out of the scrappage incentive scheme is actually not too bad. The year-to-date numbers are still up by 3%. The Renault Clio is #1 this month for the 3rd time this year after January and April with…
The Australian market continues its good year: +9% in September at 85,051 units and +15% over the first 9 months (780,671 sales). Once threatened by the Toyota Corolla when the new model came out a couple of years ago, the Holden Commodore now has quite a comfortable lead in the…
The Brazilian market is in very good shape in 2010 and even if September shows a slight decrease compared to Sept 09 (-2%), the year to date sales total shows an increase of 7% over 2009. In fact, Brazil has passed Germany, be it in September (291,409 sales vs 259,748…
Hyundai Sonata After a very tough year last year, 2010 has seen the US car market go back to normal with an outrageous domination from the Ford F-Series and September is no exception: it gains 40% over to Sep '09 at 47,433 sales, while the Chevrolet Silverado does even better,…
In a market losing 19% vs. 2009, Fiat manages a 1-2-3 this month with the Fiat Punto leading the way at 7% market share (8% over 9 months 2010), ahead of the Fiat Panda at 6.5% (7%) and the Fiat 500 at 4.2% (Vs. 3.6% over 2010). A good performance…
BMW 5 Series It's very rare to have access to car sales results in Luxembourg (last time I managed to do so was 3 years ago!) so let's enjoy them while we got them! No model detail is available but the market is pretty dynamic with 20.189 sales in 8…
Car sales are up 10% in New Zealand over the first 4 months of the year at 25,037 registrations. The Toyota Corolla holds onto its pole position but see its market share slip slightly from 6.7% over the Full Year 2009 to 5.5% now. The Toyota Hilux is stable at…
Dacia Sandero The Romanian market did one thing in 2009: it crashed to the ground, going from 324,080 sales in 2008 to 147,962 (-55%) in spite of of government subsidies. In this chaos, the Dacia Logan has managed to slightly improve its market share, from 23.4% to 23.7%. It's lower…