Malaysia was under a nationwide lockdown during April. Picture Vincent Than/AP The Malaysian nationwide “Movement Control Order”, a partial lockdown, was initiated to stem the spread of COVID-19 on March 18 and extended to May 12. The rise in confirmed cases has been drastically slowed, with 6.002 as of April 30…
Ivory Coast Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly was evacuated to France for health checks on May 2. Our Ivory Coast contact has recently let us know that new car sales in the country are likely to amount to zero for the month of April as the Office of Registrations was…
The 50 year-old Zamyad Z24 is back inside the Top 10 in 2019. After adding 12 new Iranian Historical Data articles, it is now time to catch up with the latest sales data. The Iranian government has stopped releasing complete monthly production data, with only reports from Iran Khodro, Saipa,…
Changan sales are up 60.7% in a market down -5.6%. 8/06 update: Now with Top 175 All New Energy models. According to the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA), retail sales of passenger vehicles (cars, SUVs and MPVs) thin their fall to just -5.6% year-on-year in April to 1.43 million units.…
The Daihatsu Sigra is the best-selling vehicle in Indonesia for the first time in history. Our monthly Indonesian coverage now includes All-brands retail volumes and a monthly All-models ranking, upgraded from a Top 20 models. Indonesia was late to impose COVID-19 lockdowns (if any) and as a result confirmed cases…
The Toyota Hilux is the #1 vehicle in Thailand for the first time this year. 24/07 update: Now with Top 62 All-models. Thailand has by and large squashed the coronavirus for now, with just 3.037 confirmed cases as of May 20 vs. 2.931 when we published the March update on…
Mercedes is the only gainer in the Top 13 and ranks 6th in April. With COVID-19 cases soaring from just 669 as of March 31 to 10.861 as of April 30 and 19.706 as of May 20, Ukraine was under strict lockdown measures for all of April, with the quarantine…
The Lexus UX is the most popular recent import launch in China. Sales of imported new cars into China are also frankly on the mend at -3.3% year-on-year in April to 92.669 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -27.4% to 253.980. Strikingly, the Top 5 most popular imported brands are…
France ended its national lockdown on May 11, with inhabitants now able to get out without having to fill a movement certificate. Business and school reopening are less strict in "Green" departments, whereas "Red" departments remain relatively constrained (see map below). So how have new car sales performed over the…
Toyota soars to 36% share in New Caledonia in April. New Caledonia is a French overseas archipelago located north-east of Australia. Unlike metropolitan France where the COVID-19 lockdown lasted until May 11, here businesses reopened as early as April 20. After March sales down a moderate -25.9%, April deliveries drop -47.2%…
The UAZ Bukhanka is #1 in Kazakhstan in April, 60% being ambulances. Picture autozavod.com Hitherto unaffected by the COVID-19 crisis (+39.7% in March), the Kazakh new car market crashes in April at -80.5% year-on-year to 1.122 units, tilting the year-to-date tally into negative at -2.8% to 18.963. This is the result…
The Toyota Corolla is the best-selling Passenger Car in Egypt so far in 2020. Three recent international trade agreements gave a boost to the Egyptian new vehicle market over the First Quarter of 2020 with sales up 50.7% to 52.931 units vs. just 35.118 over the same period in 2019,…
Launched in January, the Geely Coolray is already inside the Belarus Top 20. Belarus is shaping up to be BSCB's latest monthly update addition. To celebrate, we can offer you today detailed brands and models data available since the start of 2020. Brand-wise, we have a complete Q1 2020 Top…
The Toyota C-HR breaks its Greek ranking record for the 2nd straight month. Greece initiated a nationwide lockdown on March 23 and remained under the strictest movement restrictions all through April, starting to ease on May 4 when small retail shops and hair salons were allowed to open. The country has…
The Toyota RAV4 is #1 in Cyprus in April. Cyprus has managed to contain the spread of the coronavirus, with 916 cases as of May 18 vs. 750 as of April 17. But quarantine measures mean its new car market is hit as hard as the rest of Europe, with…