The Wuling Mini Truck remains the most popular LCV in China. After a one-year hiatus, China Light Commercial Vehicle sales updates are back on BSCB with a Top 10 brands and Top 3 models courtesy of LMC Automotive. Contrary to Passenger Cars, LCV wholesales in China are up a very…
Border police fleet sales propel Land Rover sales up 7-fold year-on-year. New car sales in Bulgaria edge down -1.1% year-on-year in March to 3.707 units, leading to a year-to-date tally up 1.5% to 10.289. Dacia (+24.6%) and Renault (+10.7%) buck the negative trend with splendid double-digit gains, whereas Skoda (-13.6%) struggles…
Ram (+20.6%) ignores the surrounding gloom with the largest gain in the Top 20. Down -3.2% to 3.989.468 units, the U.S. new light vehicle market endures its slowest start of the year and its first quarter below 4m since 2014 (3.74m). Accordingly, most analysts including myself anticipate 2019 to be…
Jetta sales are up 64.7% in March, helping Volkswagen up 14.8%. It's a third consecutive month of decline for the U.S. light vehicle market with March down -3.1% to 1.605.715 units, bringing the Q1 tally down -3.2% to 3.989.468. However a bright spot is the Seasonally Adjusted Annualised Selling Rate…
The Lada Vesta breaks its volume and share records this month. Government subsidies for lower- priced vehicles launched this month enable the Russian market to return a slim uptick with March registrations up 1.8% to 160.180, however this isn't enough to tilt the YTD volume into positive at -0.6% to 391.650.…
The Skoda Scala has landed in its home charts with a bang. The Czech new car market is embattled in a post-WLTP depression with March marking a 7th consecutive year-on-year decline at -12.1% to 21.491 units, pulling the year-to-date tally down -12.2% to 59.616. However 5 of the Top 6…
Renault is the most popular carmaker in Argentina for the 4th time in the past 8 months. Things are taking a sinister turn in Argentina when it comes to new car sales with March marking a 10th consecutive month of double-digit drops at an abysmal -53.7% to just 38.864 units,…
The new Toyota Corolla is already #5 in Finland. New car sales in Finland remain a desolate landscape: March is down an abysmal -21.2% to 9.141 units, marking a 6th double-digit drop in the past 7 months and a 7th decline in as many months. The year-to-date volume is now…
The Citroen C3 is the best-selling vehicle in Northern Ireland in March. Thanks to our partnership with SMMT we can share with you the Top 10 best-sellers for all UK nations in March. Keep in mind this is a zoom in by nation, all sales figures are included in the March UK…
The VW Golf is back up 51.8% year-on-year in Croatia in March. No sign of improvement for new car sales in Croatia, freefalling down -19.9% year-on-year in March to 5.041 registrations, pulling the year-to-date tally down -12.3% to 12.139. Quite strikingly, the entire Top 5 best-selling brands markedly outpace the…
Renault Logan sales surge 140.2% year-on-year in March. New car sales in Brazil suddenly hit the brakes in March, marking the first year-on-year decline since April 2017 (23 months) at -0.2% year-on-year to 199.550 units. Thanks to an outstanding start of the year, the Q1 volume remains largely in positive at…
Dacia is the best performing brand in the UK market in March. UK March sales figures are always awaited with bated breath: with new licence plates released, this is traditionally the biggest month of the year, volumes being so large that they have a strong impact on European sales and…
Suzuki is the only one of the Big 5 carmakers to post a gain in March. As the end of the Japanese Financial Year, March volumes are always 35 to 40% higher than any other month in Japan and therefore is of capital importance. This year Japan new vehicle sales…
The Pajero Sport (+59.2%) helps Mitsubishi sales soar 15% in March. New vehicle sales in Australia have now closed the loop: in negative year-on-year for a full 12 months in a row. March marks the lowest result for the month since 2014, down -7.1% to 99.442 units and leading to…
Almost 1 in 3 new cars sold in Norway in March is a Tesla Model 3. The Norwegian new car maker shoots up by a whopping 27.6% year-on-year in March to 18.375 registrations, lifting the YTD cume up 13.9% to 38.485. There is one main culprit for this surge: the…