The Jeep Renegade brilliantly breaks into the Brazilian Top 5 for the first time this month. * See the Top 15 brands and Top 140 models by clicking on the title * Brazilian new light vehicle sales continue to skid off track and down into oblivion, losing 39% or nearly…
The Toyota Prius is the best-selling vehicle in Japan in January. Picture courtesy autocar.jp * See the Top 50 All-brands, Top 30 regular cars and Top 35 kei cars by clicking on the title * This update was created in collaboration with Stephen Bloom. The Japanese automotive market is off…
The Lada Vesta surges to 9th place overall in Russia this month. * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 55 All-brands by clicking on the title * The new car market crisis is deepening in Russia, with January down a further 29% year-on-year to just 81.849 registrations, the…
The Honda Civic is up 43% to 5th overall in January. Picture caranddriver.com * See the Top 15 groups, Top 40 brands and Top 274 All-models by clicking on the title * Even though January had one less weekend than in 2015, began with a stock market rout and ended with…
The Peugeot 308 ranks #2 at home in January. Picture largus.fr * Now updated with the Top 50 All-brands and Top 317 All-models: click on title to see * At +3.5% year-on-year in January to 137.788 registrations, we should be celebrating the apparent long term return to good health of the…
Volkswagen sales drop 9% at home in January. * See the Top 48 All-brands and Top 300 All-models by clicking on the title * The German new car market starts 2016 in a very healthy way: up 3% 218.365 registrations in January. After resisting fairly well over the past few…
First Top 10 ranking for the Opel Mokka in Spain. * See the Top 42 All-brands and Top 282 All-models by clicking on the title * On paper the Spanish market is up by another flamboyant 12% year-on-year to 76.904 registrations, the best January score since 2008 (101.664), showing signs…
About to be scrapped: never before had the Punto ranked outside the Top 10 at home. * Now updated with the Top 180 models and Top 42 All-brands * A great start of the year for the Italian new car market, up 17% year-on-year to 156.163 registrations, mainly pulled by extensive…
The new generation Vauxhall Astra has finally landed in the UK. * See the Top 10 best-selling models for each UK nation by clicking on the title * After the overall UK Top 10 and thanks to SMMT we can now share with you the Top 10 best-sellers for each UK nation for January.…
Nissan Qashqai - Never before had a Japanese nameplate ranked so high in the UK. * See the Top 10 best-selling models and Top 40 brands by clicking on the title * The UK new car market starts 2016 on a positive note with sales up 3% to reach an…
Nasir Al-Mulk mosque in Shiraz, Iran With Iran agreeing to curb its nuclear program in return for the end of economic sanctions, carmakers are scrambling to the starting blocks in order to best benefit from the opening of a high-potential market to competition. If you are a regular BSCB reader, you…
Toyota Corolla Altis in Singapore October 2007 Historical data spanning the past decade is now available on BestSellingCarsBlog. If you have access to any information prior to 2006 and models data after 2009, please make sure you get in touch! All the direct links to the annual articles are below. Singapore…
GM Holden Chairman Mike Devereux: "Building cars in Australia is just not sustainable" Mike Devereux, Chairman of General Motors' Australian subsidiary, Holden, has just announced 30 minutes ago in a press conference live on Australian Television that Holden will cease to manufacture cars locally in 2017, almost seven decades after…
2013 Holden Commodore. Based on its CEO's most recent declarations, Holden could stop manufacturing in Australia (and anywhere in the world for that matter) as early as 2016. * See the Full article by clicking on the title! * The answer is yes, and it could well be in 2016.…
* See the Full article by clicking on the title! * While Renault has nailed the low-cost formula with Dacia, prompting other manufacturers to follow suit (Nissan with Datsun and potentially Fiat with Autobianchi), on the other end of the scale, the French manufacturer is also working on ressucitating the…