Toyota Aygo in Rabat * See The cars of Malta in 50 pictures here * Being one of the smallest new car markets in Europe doesn't prevent Malta from being secretive. My contact at the ACIM - the Association of Cars Importers in Malta - is at first not very keen to…
The VW Golf sold 414,132 units in Germany in 1992 - a record year. * Click on the title for the Top 40 best-selling nameplates & Top 40 foreign nameplates * We can now share with you an updated ranking of the the best-selling nameplates in Germany, ranked based on their record…
The Ford Cortina sold 193,784 units in 1979, a volume record for the UK * Click on the title for the Top 25 best-selling nameplates and Top 30 foreign nameplates * We can share with you an updated ranking exclusive to BSCB: the best-selling nameplates in the country, ranked by their volume…
Great Wall Wingle This is Part 3 of my special Strategy series about Chinese manufacturers at home. You can check out Part 1 (introduction and Medium & Heavy Trucks) here, Part 2 (Small, Medium & Large Buses and Light Trucks) here and Part 4 (Commercial Vehicles summary and MPVs) here. We are exploring the…
Saipa Tiba * See the Top 15 most produced models by clicking on the title! * May 2013 roughly corresponds to Ordibehesht, the second month of the year 1392 in the Persian calendar, and over the period, the Iranian car production is stuck in hell, down another 57% year-on-year to…
It is time for me to send you all my best wishes for the New Year 2013, may it bring you and your loved ones all you ever wanted! 2012 was a fantastic year for BestSellingCarsBlog, going from strength to strength all thanks to you: You were 900,000 to visit…
Dacia Duster in Morocco. Picture courtesy of Top Gear, all rights reserved. * See the entire article by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Audrey & Fordcs * * There is now a Top 20 brands ranking for October 2012! Click here to see - thanks Ismael * In November…
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…
The Ford Cortina was #1 in England for the first time in 1967 * 29 articles have been revised - click on the title for the direct links * Thanks to data shared by Florian I can now give you much more detail on the UK market since 1985, with…
The Mercedes W123 was #1 in 1980 * Click on the title for each year's Top 100 best-sellers! - Thanks to Florian for the data * I have now uploaded detailed data for West Germany all through the eighties! The decade started with a big surprise and the Mercedes W123…
Peugeot 205 I have now uploaded French Historical Data from 1981 to 1989. This is the time I started getting interested in car sales so I have pretty detailed information for that period: an Annual Top 10/15/20 best-selling models and from 1982 onwards each monthly market share for the Top…
JAC Tojoy Still very limited, the new car market in Madagascar is dominated by Asian brands: Toyota is in the lead in Q2 2010 at 11.8% (down from 17.9% in Q4 '09), ahead of Nissan and Mitsubishi. However the big novelty in Q2 is the thunderous arrival of two Chinese…
Seat Ibiza New car sales in Spain lift up a very solid 11% year-on-year in 1997 to 998.874 units, the largest annual volume this decade. Renault (+7.3%) manages to hold onto the brands top spot even though its market share continues to thaw to 12.9%. Illustrating the increased competitiveness of…
The Paykan holds just under 60% of the Iranian market in 1996. In 1993, the Iranian new car market shoots up 60% year-on-year to 69.965 units, its highest level in at least nine years. Iran Khodro continues to dominate the Iranian car landscape with 40.2% share thanks to the Paykan,…
Renault Clio * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! Many thanks to STAC for making this post possible. * A robust government scrappage scheme enabled the French new car market to rebound by 15% on 1993 at 1,972,919 registrations this year.…