BMW X5 * See the Top 40 All-brands and Top 190 All-models by clicking on the title * New vehicle sales in Hong Kong are up 4% year-on-year in May to 4.300 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 22.680 units, up 9% on 2014. Toyota continues to dominate the brands ranking…
Honda Shuttle * See the Top 60 All-brands, Top 30 regular cars, Top 35 kei cars by clicking on the title * Japan report prepared in collaboration with Stephen Bloom. Sales of new vehicles in Japan are down 8% year-on-year in May to 335.644 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 2.234.004…
Toyota Alphard * See the Top 40 All-brands and Top 175 All-models by clicking on the title * New vehicle sales in Hong Kong are down a painful 13% year-on-year in April to 3.638 registrations which brings the year-to-date total to 18.382 units, still up by a robust 10% on 2014…
Honda StepWGN * See the Top 60 All-brands, Top 30 regular vehicles and Top 35 kei cars by clicking on the title * This Japan update was prepared in collaboration with Stephen Bloom. The big news in Japan in April is the tax rate hike on kei cars to align them with the…
Mercedes E-Class * See the Top 40 All-brands and Top 191 All-models by clicking on the title * New vehicle sales in Hong Kong are up by a very robust 24% year-on-year in February to 4,907 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 9,317 units, up 15.5% on 2014. Toyota remains…
First month of sales for the Mazda CX-3 in Japan. * See the Top 30 best-selling cars, kei cars and Top 54 All-brands by clicking on the title * Analysis written in cooperation with Stephen Bloom February sales remain well below last year’s pre-tax increase level, but they were a bit…
Nissan X-Trail, Mazda CX-5, Toyota Harrier - SUV sales surged 62% in 2014 in Japan. * See the Top 189 All-local models by clicking on the title * Today at BSCB we can share with you an exclusive All-local models ranking by variant (Corolla Axio and Corolla Fielder separated for…
Toyota Aqua X-URBAN * Discover the Top 30 best-selling models and Top 53 All-brands. Thanks Stephen * The first quarter of 2014 saw record sales in Japan due to an impending tax increase. Consequently, January 2015 sales are well below (-19%), with imports faring the best at -14.5% and KEI cars…
Honda Fit * See the Top 30 best-selling models and Top 13 local brands by clicking on the title! Thanks Stephen * Fantastic month for new car sales in Japan: up 17% year-on-year to 264,567 registrations which reduces the year-to-date fall to 7% at 2,731,659 units. Big event atop the…
The Buick GL8 is everywhere in Beijing! * See the Full Photo Report by clicking on the title! * This is Part 21 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Report here. When I said it was a big shock to go from one…
FAW V5 and UAZ Bukhanka * See the Full Photo Report by clicking on the title! * This is Part 9 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. This time we are doing a tiny little hop 80 km South…
Honda Fit 3 * See the Top 30 best-selling models and Top 13 All-local brands by clicking on the title! * For only the second time in the last 12 months with last April, Japanese sales of new regular vehicles are actually up year-on-year in September at +12% to 324,315…
Honda Airwave This is Part 8 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are now moving 855km East to Irkutsk, which is 80 km off Lake Baikal. And here again a fascinating car landscape awaits… From roughly 30% of…
Toyota Hiace in Hong Kong. Picture by Jeremy, all rights reserved. * See the Top 160 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * 3,618 new vehicles found a buyer in Hong Kong in May, adding up to 19,124 so far in 2013. The Toyota Hiace is the most popular model on…
Chery QQ in Yangon, Myanmar * See the Full photo album by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ryusuke * Information about the Myanmar new car market is slowly but surely trickling down, and now thanks to the hard work of Ryusuke I can share with you a photo…