Peugeot 208 * NOW UPDATED with the Top 110 best-selling models! Click on title to see! * From -2% year-on-year over the first 28 days of May, the French market drops to -16% over the full month to 165,776 registrations, with 3 less working days than May 2011. Still a disappointing…
The Hyundai Accent is #1 in 5 countries across the world * See the full list by clicking on the title! * Now that most official sales data is in for the first 5 months of the year we can start looking at the #1 models around the world in…
Dacia Duster. Picture by Ciprian Mihai, all rights reserved. * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Poland are up again in May at +4% year-on-year, bringing the year-to-date total to 142,375 units, up 10% on 2011. Like last month the models…
Mercedes B-Class * See the Top 300 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Steam * In May the German new car market is down 5% year-on-year to 289,977 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 1,337,679 units, up just 0.3% on 2011. The VW Golf predictably holds…
VW Polo * NOW UPDATED with actuals for the Top 20 best-selling models! Click on title to see - many thanks to Luka * Croatian new car sales recuperate somewhat from a disastrous month of April (-37%) at -13% year-on-year in May at 3,377 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to…
Citroen C3 * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Another depressing result for Greek car sales, down 48% year-on-year in May to 5,265 sales, which brings the year-to-date total to 26,853 units, down 41% on 2011. For the first time in 13 years, exactly…
Vauxhall Corsa * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * While most European countries are slowly but surely falling back into recession, UK car sales have a euphoric month of May, up 8% year-on-year to 162,288 registrations with private sales up 14%. This is the…
Peugeot 508 * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Italian consumers are among the last in the world with the Swedish and Slovaks to still be extremely keen of Station Wagons (SW), which is why I keep separating this format each month in Italy. However like in April,…
Opel Astra. Picture by Ciprian Mihai, all rights reserved. * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Zsolti * Hungarian car sales continue to recover brilliantly after a couple of hellish years, up 20% year-on-year over both the first 5 months of 2012…
Dacia Duster. Picture by Ciprian Mihai, all rights reserved. * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Polish car market continues on its excellent run, up 7% year-on-year in April to 27,291 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 115,200 units, up 11% on 2011.…
BMW 3 Series * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The European new car market continues to struggle at -6% year-on-year in April to 1,069,243 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 4,507,515 units, down 7% on 2011. The Top 2 best-seller stay unchanged: the…
BMW 3 Series * NOW UPDATED AGAIN with the Top 308 best-selling models! Click on title to see * Car sales in Germany are up a solid 3% year-on-year in April at 274,066 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 1,047,702 units, up 2% on 2011. No surprise in pole position: the…
Hyundai i30 * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Croatia is the latest European country after Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy to tread worrying waters, down 37% year-on-year in April to just 2,627 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 13,459 units, down 8% on…
2012 Fiat Linea * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! There is a one month data delay * After being down 29% in January and 25% in February, the Turkish new car market slows down its fall slightly this month at -13% and 47,270 registrations, bringing…
Fiat 500 * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * In spite of the current economic climate in Europe, car sales in the UK are up 3% year-on-year to 142,322 registrations and up 1% year-to-date at 705,878 units. SMMT has revised its Full Year 2012…