Peugeot 504 Station Wagon in the background. Picture by Liki Fumei, all rights reserved. * Click on title for more street scenes and videos! * In 2011, 7,350 new cars were imported into Senegal, making it the biggest market in Western Africa. 585 of these were then re-exported in the…
* Click on title for Ghanaian street videos! * Ghana is one of the most dynamic car market in Africa, with 12,000 new car sales in 2011, double that of neighbour Cote d'Ivoire. It is also relatively mature, with a full variety of models available and a very fragmented structure.…
The new gen Toyota Camry is off to a good start in Nigeria * More articles on Nigeria car sales by clicking on the title! Many thanks to myk * Hit full frontal by a banking crisis in 2009 that necessitated a government bailout of the country's biggest lenders, the…
Nearly one third of Citroen DS5 sold in France are hybrids. * See the Top 4 best-selling hybrids by clicking on the title! * Up until now, the hybrid technology had not really made its mark in the French market. With the first deliveries of the Toyota Yaris Hybrid, things look…
Dacia Lodgy * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Over the first 3 weeks of August, the French new car market is down 6% year-on-year to 50,400 registrations. Brand-wise, Peugeot leads with 8,908 sales and 17.7% ahead of Citroen at 6,996 units and 13.9%…
Fiat Panda & 500 in Vintimiglia, Italy August 2012 * See the entire photo report by clicking on the title! * The photo report saga continues: after Scotland and the French countryside, I thought I'd drive across the border to Italy in Vintimiglia to give you a quick snapshot of…
Wuling Hongguang * See the Top 5 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New Light Commercial Vehicle sales in China are up an encouraging 6% year-on-year to 321,959 registrations, or way more than in Germany for example. The year-to-date total now stands at 2,911,491 units, down just 1%…
The Chery QQ3 could be the 2nd Chinese model to rank #1 in an export market * Many thanks to Myk for digging out this information! * Up until now I had found it very hard to find even a little bit of information on the new car market in…
The Great Wall Hover H3 will soon be available in Bulgaria * See the Top 20 best-selling brands by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Kalo * Thanks to Kalo, Bulgaria is receiving lots of attention this year. A month ago I described how Great Wall, now the first…
Toyota Hilux * See the Top 8 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Austin * Thanks to Austin Rutherford Thai Pick-up sales data has become a monthly update on BSCB. It is a great indication of the future success of these vehicles worldwide, straight from the…
The Geely CK is the first Chinese model to rank #1 in an export market. * Click on the title to see the full article! * With most July data now out, it's time for our much awaited monthly rendezvous with the World roundup, now in its 5th instalment. While…
Iran Khodro Runna * See the Top 15 most produced models by clicking on the title! * As usual we explore local production figures for the Iranian market as sales data is not available, however this should represent a relatively accurate picture of car sales in the country as high…
Toyota Corolla * See more street scenes by clicking on the title! * UPDATE: Thanks to the hard work of Myk I can now share with you more information about car sales in Bangladesh. And this market is booming, with 4,500 brand new cars sold in 2010 compared to 3,000…
Ford Escape * NOW UPDATED with the Top 150 best-selling models! Click on title to see * For the second time in the last two months and only the third time in the last 12 months the Ford F-Series manages to sell upwards of 10,000 units in a single month in Canada…
VW Transporter * See the Top 25 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * In July Dutch companies bought 4,290 Light Commercial Vehicles, bringing the year-to-date total to 38,225 registrations. Big change this month: for the first time since we started tracking LCV sales in the Netherlands (in September…