The Mitsubishi Montero Sport is up to 4th place in the UAE in 2022 YTD. The UAE new car market edges up 0.4% year-on-year over the first 9 months of 2022 to 141,242 units. Toyota (-2.5%) recedes slightly to 31.3% share, more than double the #2 Mitsubishi (+36.1%) in excellent…
The Hyundai Sonata roars into 4th place in June in the UAE. New vehicle sales in the United Arab Emirates climb 16.1% year-on-year in June to 18,312 units. Toyota (+1%) is stable and holds just under 30% market share. In 2nd place, Mitsubishi soars 133.4% and overtakes a struggling Nissan…
The Toyota Hilux is the best-selling vehicle in the UAE in March. 17,570 new light vehicles hit the road in the UAE, a 7.7% year-on-year increase. Toyota (+3.3%) can't quite match the market growth but remains by far the best-selling carmaker with 31.6% share. Nissan (-15.5%) is in difficulty in…
The Toyota Land Cruiser is the best-selling vehicle in the UAE in 2021. Discover over 15 years of United Arab Emirates Historical Data here. New vehicle sales in the United Arab Emirates shoot up 26.4% year-on-year in 2021 to 192,445 units. However market leaders Toyota (+13.8%) and Nissan (+8.6%) can't…
The VinFast Fadil is the most popular vehicle in Vietnam in 2021. Discover over 15 years of Vietnam Historical Data here. The Vietnamese new vehicle market edges up 2.5% year-on-year in 2021 to 304,149 sales according to VAMA. This figure climbs to 410,390 units (+2.3%) once Hyundai and VinFast are added,…
The Suzuki Swift Dzire ranks #10 in the UAE so far in 2021. The UAE new car market is up 27.1% year-on-year over the first 9 months of 2021 to 140,679 registrations. Toyota (+19.5%) and Nissan (+12.1%) both trail the market significantly but remain the outright best-sellers, holding 51.1% of…
The Toyota Land Cruiser is the best-selling vehicle in the UAE so far in 2021. The Emirati new light vehicle market gains 23.6% year-on-year to 107.280 units over the first 7 months of 2021. The two brand leaders grow slower than the market: Toyota (+15%) sees its share decline from…
The Toyota Land Cruiser is the best-selling vehicle in the UAE so far in 2021. Emirati new car sales are up 12.2% year-on-year over the first four months of 2021 to 59.502 vs. 53.045 a year ago. The market is fragmenting slightly over the period with the Top 2 carmakers holding 52.2%…
The Hyundai Accent is the most popular vehicle in Vietnam in April. According to local manufacturers association VAMA, new car sales in Vietnam soar 155.6% year-on-year in April to 30.065 units, leading to a year-to-date tally up 56.6% to 101.309. These figures climb to 39.320 for the month and 133.007 year-to-date…
MG breaks into the UAE Top 10 over Q1 2020 thanks to sales up 184.3%. UAE new car sales drop a stiff -8.7% year-on-year over the First Quarter of 2020 to 47.462 registrations. January is down -1.9% to 16.846 units and February up 8.1% to 17.192 but the COVID-19 pandemic…
The Toyota Land Cruiser is the best-selling vehicle in the GCC. Discover 15 years of Gulf Cooperation Council Historical Data here. The Gulf Cooperation Council is an economic union including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. In 2019 and on the sole strength of Saudi…
The arrival of female drivers has boosted the Saudi car market in 2019. Discover 30 years of Saudi Arabia Historical Data here. After three consecutive 20%+ annual drops (-21.4% in 2016, -22.3% in 2017 and -23.4% in 2018) resulting in a halving of the market between 2015 (879.704) and 2018 (411.223), the…
Women are driving a spectacular market recovery in Saudi Arabia: +37.8% in Q3. The arrival of female drivers on the Saudi new light vehicle market continues to spectacularly boost sales, with the surge even accelerating over Q3 to +37.8% year-on-year at 134.582 units, lifting the year-to-date volume up 27.7% to…
The Hyundai Kona is the best-selling new car in Saudi Arabia over the period. As we described at length in our latest Saudi Arabia update, the arrival of women on the Saudi new car market has kicked sales into gear after years of deep decline. H1 2019 volumes are up…
The lift of the ban on driver's licences for Saudi women has boosted new car sales spectacularly this year. Picture Saudi Information Ministry via AP. The time has finally come! After imploding 53.2% between 2015 and 2018, including a painful 23.4% last year, new light vehicle sales in Saudi Arabia have bottomed…