Renault Clio IV. Picture by L'Argus, all rights reserved. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 160 best-selling models! Click on title to see * New car sales in France are down 8% year-on-year in October to 162,411 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 1,593,920 units, down 13% on 2011. Note…
Only 5% of VW Passat sold in Italy in October were not Station Wagons... * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Italians are one of the last consumers in the world with the Swedish and Slovak to continue to love Station Wagons (SW). This is why there is a…
Kia Cee'd * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Irish licence plates are stamped with the year of registration, so new car sales in the country are at their strongest in January and slip down to minuscule numbers towards the end of the year.…
BMW 1 Series * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to José * It's still a very dark outlook for new car sales in Portugal, down 30% year-on-year in September to 6,358 registrations and down 40% year-to-date to 74,461 units. The Peugeot 208…
Sales of Nissan X-Trail are up 25% year-on-year in Australia * NOW UPDATED with the Top 293 All-models ranking! Click on title to see * Thanks to Autoblog Español and David I can now share with you the sales figures for absolutely all models sold in Australia over the first 9 months…
Mercedes will need the A-Class to reclaim the world #1 premium brand spot it lost in 2005 * See the full article by clicking on the title! * Launched in mid-September across Western Europe, the new generation Mercedes A-Class already has over 70,000 orders despite being €7,000 more expensive than the…
Ford Focus * Click on the title to see the full article! * With most September data now in, it’s time for our much anticipated monthly rendezvous: the World roundup, now in its 7th instalment. Last month the Subaru XV made the headlines by toppling the VW Golf in Switzerland. In…
BMW 1 Series * See the Top 20 best-selling brands by clicking on the title! * Still no models info available for Luxembourg (if you have any please get in touch!) but the brands ranking in September is eventful enough to warrant an update here. The new car market in…
The Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake sold its first 40 units in France in September * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Thanks to STAC I can share with you an exclusive ranking today and for the first time on BSCB: the best-selling Station Wagons…
Skoda Rapid * See the full article and the Top 67 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! * This is Part 3 of my Sydney Motor Show special report, you can see Part 1 covering Toyota, Mazda, Ford and Holden here and Part 2 covering Hyundai, VW, Kia, Range…
VW Golf * See the Top 156 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * Thanks to a tip from Austin, I can already share with you September figures for Hong Kong (China). 3,773 new vehicles were sold in Hong Kong in September, bringing the year-to-date total to 31,444 units.…
The Hyundai Elantra Langdong sold 26,856 units in China in only 2 months. * See the Top 288 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * Like every month now on BSCB, we go into the detail of the year-to-date models ranking for the 2 biggest markets in the world,…
Ford Focus * NOW UPDATED with the Top 283 All-models ranking! Click on title to see * The diplomatic tensions between China and Japan over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands had a huge impact on the Chinese new car market this month. For the first time in 2012, passenger cars are down year-on-year at…
Fiat Punto Classic * See the Top 20 best-selling brands by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Nenad for the tip * One year after BSCB's last update on Serbia it is time for a little refresh. New car sales in Serbia are not having the best time in…
VW Up! * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Danish new car market continues to buck the European gloomy context, with September sales up 0.5% year-on-year to 13,923 registrations which brings the year-to-date total to 128,493 units, up 1% on 2011. The VW…