The BMW 3 Series is at its highest in Portugal in almost 5 years. The Portuguese new car market lifts 12.2% year-on-year in October on weak year-ago post-WLTP volumes to 15.649 units, leading to a year-to-date tally now down -3.5% to 189.673. Peugeot (+9.2%) overtakes Renault (+19.8%) to reclaim the…
The GT Line variant accounts for 50% of Peugeot 208 II initial sales. 08/11 update with Top 365 All-models final figures and buyer types info. 02/11 update with Top 50 All-brands. The French new car market posts a sturdy 8.7% year-on-year gain to 188.985 units in October, signing the largest…
The Kia Xceed breaks into the Spanish Top 50 in October. The Spanish new car market gains 8.4% year-on-year in October to 97.986 units, the largest result for the month in exactly 10 years - since the 98.512 units of October 2009. The year-to-date tally is now down -3.7% to…
The Arona lifts Seat up to #4 overall in Israel in September. Thanks to our Israeli partner cartube.co.il, we can share with you today September brands data for Israel and as for every quarter, complete data including models is also available this month. In September the Israeli new car market surges…
The Renault Clio scores its first Spanish win in 3 years. It's time to kick start September updates and in Europe we will see a blanket of seemingly impressive year-on-year gains due to the depleted September 2018 volumes post-WLTP implementation. Spain inaugurates the trend with a 20.7% year-on-year surge to…
The Toyota Corolla is the best-selling vehicle in Poland for the 4th consecutive month. The Polish new light vehicle market is logically down -12.6% year-on-year in August to 54.099 units as post-WLTP hangover engulfs most European Union markets. The year-to-date volume remains however in positive at +0.6% to 422.030, a new…
The VW T-Cross breaks into the Austrian Top 5 for the first time. Picture meinbezirk.at The Austrian new car market is almost immobile in July at -0.06% year-on-year to 31.454 registrations, an outstanding performance in itself even July 2018 volume were boosted up 13.5% by pre-WLTP sales. The YTD volume…
The Mercedes A-Class is the outright best-seller in Portugal for the third time in the past 11 months. The Portuguese new car market drops a steep -7.8% year-on-year in July to 18.436 registrations, meaning the year-to-date volume is now down -4.9% to 147.031. Renault (-18.8%) takes a hit but stays…
The Duster (+20.8%) helps Dacia up 12.8% across Europe in H1 2019. 07/08/2019 update: Now with the Top 55 brands and Top 385 models. New car sales in Europe edge down -3.1% to 8.426.190 units over the First Half of 2019 according to ACEA data which includes the European Union…
The Dacia Sandero is the best-selling vehicle in Spain for the third time in 2019. New car sales in Spain drop -8.3% year-on-year in July to 121.012 registrations, leading to a year-to-date tally down -3.8% to 836.352. However as it is the case in France, this is in fact a…
The new X3 (+96.8%) helps BMW up 7.4% so far in 2019. New car sales in Germany edge up 0.5% year-on-year over the First Half of 2019 to a round 1.849.000 units, the largest H1 tally in Germany since 2000. Business fleets gain 3.3% to 1.179.662 units and 63.8% share…
The Seat Arona is up to a record 2nd place at home. The Spanish new car market endures a 9th year-on-year decline in the past 10 months in June at -5.9% to 134.341 registrations, leading to a First Half tally down -3% to 715.314. Revealing a strongly artificial market, only…
Citroen is the only Top 12 brand in positive over Q1 in Europe. New car sales in Europe ex-Russia and Turkey drop -3.2% over the First Quarter of 2019 to 4.13 million units. Germany (+0.2%) is the only Top 5 market to register a (very meagre) uptick, with France (-1.1%)…
The Seat Leon is by far the most popular vehicle in Spain in April. Spanish new car sales cut short a painful streak of 7 consecutive months of declines in April with a sturdy +5.9% year-on-year uptick to 123.833 units, the largest result for the month since 2006 (129.468). The…
Fiat Tipo in Tirana, Albania in August 2018. One of the 10 countries we dashed through in 10 days last August with a Dacia Logan was Albania, for which there has never been any official new car sales data published. I have to admit one of the motivations for conducting…