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…
Chevrolet Sail * See the Top 280 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * As it is now the tradition on BSCB, after exploring this month’s models ranking in China, we now put the spotlight on year-to-date sales to extract longer-term trends. Over the first 7 months of 2012,…
Renault Sandero * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * After yo-yoing up and down over the last few months, the Argentinean new car market stabilises in July at 72,999 registrations, down 0.05% year-on-year and bringing the year-to-date total to 520,845 units, up 2% on…
Buick Excelle - China is the only country in the world where a Buick is #1 * See the Top 277 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The biggest car market in the world has seen its models ranking completely reorganised in the last year. The big and very…
Chevrolet Cobalt * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Given we are now halfway through 2012, I will write a specific post exploring the year-to-date models ranking and their year-on-year evolution for the Top 10 biggest car markets in the world. First one to…
VW Up! * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Croatian car sales are down a worrying 27% year-on-year in June to 3,365 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 20,201 units, down 13% on 2011. Massive surprise atop the models ranking in June: for its…
Renault Duster * See the Top 150 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Excellent month for Brazilian car sales, up a massive 19% year-on-year in June to 340,706 registrations, the second best month ever for Brazilian sales after December 2010 at 361,197 units. This brings the year-to-date total…
Chevrolet Classic * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * This is it. The Argentinean car market is going up no more. After keeping us on a hook, up 35% in March, down 8% in April and up again 12% in May, new car sales are now…
The Kia K2 is the best-performing all-new model in China over the period * See the Top 273 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Like we did for the US a week ago and after exploring Chinese May 2012 sales in detail, I thought we could pause on…
Renault Sandero * See the Top 150 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * After a few months down, the Brazilian car market is back in positive in a big way during the first half of June, up 24% year-on-year to 175,659 sales. The year-to-date total stands at 1,467,572…
Chevrolet Classic * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Argentinean new car market is taking us on a roller coaster in this first half of 2012. After being down 4% last February, up 35% in March and down 8% in April when dealerships admitted there was a slowdown in…
Renault Megane * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Before I can share with you an entire French Top 100 for the month of May, here is an appetiser: the Top 10 up to May 28. Car sales are down just 1% to 127,447…
Peugeot 208 * NOW UPDATED with actuals! See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The French car market significantly slows down its fall in April at just -1.6% year-on-year to 166,632 registrations, now that the comparison with a scrappage scheme-boosted Q1 2011 is over. The…
Toyota Aygo * See the Top 75 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Another shy month for Danish new car sales, down 14% year-on-year to 11,274 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 52,041 units, down 3% on 2011. The Toyota Aygo was the best-selling model in Denmark in…
VW Gol * See the Top 150 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Brazilian car sales continue to slip down, this time by 10% year-on-year to 244,853 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 1,017,506 units, down 3% on 2011. If in March the Fiat Uno managed to beat…