Toyota is the best-selling carmaker in Argentina so far in 2020. Compared with a particularly low year-ago level (the weakest February in 16 years), the Argentinean new vehicle market gains 10.8% year-on-year in February to 30.141 units. This leads to a year-to-date tally up 10.6% to 79.579. Toyota (+76%) surges ahead…
The Fiat Cronos is up 300.9% year-on-year in January. New vehicle sales in Argentina gain 10.6% year-on-year in January to 49.438 units. Traditional brand leader Volkswagen (-5%) is toppled this month: Toyota (+79.8%) and Fiat (+44.5%) surge to #1 and #2 respectively with 19.3% and 14.3% share, levels way above…
The Toyota Hilux is the best-selling vehicle in Argentina for the 4th time in the past 5 years. Consult 60 years of Argentinean Historical Data here. The Argentinean new vehicle market drops -25.5% year-on-year in 2020 to 342.474 units due to the coronavirus crisis. Despite this ghastly drop, the brands…
The VW Nivus breaks into the Argentinean Top 20 in November. Picture autoblog.com.ar Particularly weak year-ago volumes mean new vehicle sales in Argentina are up a fantastic 34.9% year-on-year in November to 34.563 units, however the year-to-date tally remains down, at -26.7% to 319.229. Despite losing volume year-on-year, Volkswagen (+24.2%) and…
The Fiat Cronos is the best-selling vehicle in Argentina again. A low year-ago base and pandemic pent-up demand means new vehicle sales surge 14.6% year-on-year in Argentina to 37.163 registrations, leading to a year-to-date tally down -30.6% to 284.666 units. Volkswagen (+27.1%) almost doubles the market growth to easily remain the…
The Fiat Cronos is the best-selling vehicle in Argentina for the first time. The Argentinean new vehicle market drastically reduces its fall in September to -3% year-on-year and 34.705 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -34.4% to 247.503 after already falling -44.5% last year... Volkswagen (+4.4%) bucks the negative trend…
The Fiat Cronos is up 113.6% year-on-year to a record 2nd place. New vehicle sales in Argentina dive another -30.9% year-on-year in August to 30.418 units, leading to a year-to-date tally off -37.7% to 212.798. Brand leader Volkswagen (-10.1%) drops three times slower than the market and hit a strong…
Latin America is the worst-hit new car market globally in July, with Chile down -63.6%. LMC Automotive has now released its internal Global Light Vehicle (LV) sales for July 2020, showing a single-digit year-on-year decline for the first time since February. According to LMC, July global sales are down -6.8%…
The Chevrolet Onix is now the #1 vehicle in Argentina in 2020. New vehicle sales in Argentina are back in positive for the first time in over two years (since May 2018) at +0.8% year-on-year to 36.228 units, however June 2019 was depleted -43.9% on the year prior and this post…
The Toyota Hilux is back to #1 in Argentina. As the country is slowly awakening from its COVID-19 torpor, new vehicle sales in Argentina drop -42.6% year-on-year in May to 21.015 units, pulling the year-to-date tally down -45.4% to 115.864. That's a much better hold than in April (-88.3%) but still hardly…
Buenos Aires during the COVID-19 quarantine. Argentina was under a strict national quarantine during April with dealership closed across the country and the Automotive Registries only reopening on April 22 to process registrations. On April 26, the quarantine was extended to May 10. As a result, the only sales made…
The Chevrolet Onix repeats at #1 in Argentina in March. On March 20, the Argentinean government imposed one of the strictest Coronavirus lockdowns in the world, meaning automotive factories, dealerships and registration offices closed for the rest of the month. As such, these sales figures are for the March 1-19…
The Chevrolet Onix is the best-selling vehicle in Argentina in February. New vehicle sales in Argentina skid down -31.7% year-on-year in February to just 27.204 registrations - the weakest February volume since 2004 - bringing the year-to-date tally down -27.8% to 71.921. An old and somewhat questionable theory of the…
The VW Gol is up 28.8% in a market down -25.3% in January. Although Argentinean new vehicle sales dive another -25.3% year-on-year in January to 44.717 units, this is incredibly the smallest decline in 17 months, since August 2018 exactly. That's a testimony to how much damage has been done…
The Toyota Hilux is the best-selling vehicle in Argentina in 2019. Consult almost 60 years of Argentinean Historical Data here. New vehicle sales in Argentina freefalls down -42.7% year-on-year in 2019 to just 459.592 units compared to over 800.000 in 2018 and a forecast of just -20% and 650.000 at…