The Subaru XV ranked #1 in Switzerland in August. * See the Top 100 best-selling models and Top 40 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Listen to my impressions on the 2012 Swiss car market and my predictions for 2013 during my interview on World Radio here. In 2012 new…
Toyota Crown LPG Taxi. Picture by neeravbhatt, all rights reserved. * See the Top 156 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * A round 4,000 new vehicles found a buyer in Hong Kong this month, bringing the Full Year 2012…
Audi Q7 * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * After Brazil it is now the turn of Iceland to have first 2013 sales figures available. Over the first half of January, 288 new vehicles found a buyer in the country and the Toyota Yaris…
Nissan Qashqai * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * Difficult year for new car sales in Europe, down 8% on 2011 to 12,573,842 registrations. The VW Golf manages to keep the pole position for the 5th year in a row but loses more…
BMW 7 Series * NOW UPDATED with the Top 56 All-brands ranking! Click on title to see - thanks Richard+Michael * After ending almost one decade of Toyota domination last year, BMW is once again the most popular carmaker in Singapore with 5,038 sales, up 2% on 2011. In fact the…
Great Wall V-Series. For the first time in Australia a Chinese model ranks in the Top 50. * See the Top 296 all-models and Top 50 all-brands rankings by clicking on the title! * This Australian update is brought to you by Motoring. Thanks to Ford Forums, I am able…
Renault Mégane * See the Top 150 best-selling models and Top 40 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The Dutch new car market is down 6% in 2012 to 502,544 registrations and the Netherlands have become a case study of how government incentives towards low emission models can completely reshape a…
Mercedes B-Class * NOW UPDATED with the Top 50 All-brands ranking + Top 300 models! See title * There is now a Top 364 All-models ranking available here with splits between Golf/Golf Plus and many others In a gloomy European context, German new car sales have remained very solid in 2012,…
VW Tiguan * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Austrian new car market is down 6% year-on-year in 2012 to 336,010 registrations, and the most popular model in the country this year is familiar: the VW Golf is in the lead for potentially…
Citroen C3 * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The freefall continues for new car sales in Greece: after dropping by 17% in 2009, 36% in 2010 and 31% in 2011, it is down 40% this year to 58,476 registrations, the weakest annual result since…
Nissan Qashqai * See the Top 10 best-selling models and Top 43 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The UK new car market is the only one in Europe's Top 5 to gain ground year-on-year in 2012, up a shiny 5% to 2,044,609 registrations, the highest annual tally since 2008.…
Norwegian sales of VW Tiguan are up 46% in 2012 * NOW UPDATED with the Top 277 All-models ranking! Click on title to see, thanks thanks Øystein * Because of a horrendous month of December (-19%), new car sales in Norway finish the year down 0.3% to 137,967 registrations. The VW…
Hyundai i30 May 2020 update: Now with the Top 340 All-models. The Czech new car market is up just 0.4% in 2012 to a record 174,009 registrations, and the Top 2 models stay unchanged for the 4th consecutive year. The Skoda Octavia remains the most popular model in the country…
The Fiat Panda put an end to 18 consecutive years of Fiat Punto domination in Italy * NOW UPDATED with the Top 50 best-selling models actuals and Top 46 All-brands! Click on title to see * After losing a sizeable 15% in 2011 to fall to 1,749,739 registrations, the Italian new car…
Renault Clio III * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * * There is now Top 400 All-models and Top 63 All-brands rankings available here! * 2012 was a very tough year for new car sales in France, down a worrying 14% on 2011 to…