VW Beetle The direct links to 54 Historical Posts covering 1931-2025 are below. 22/10/2021 update: Now with All-brands data spanning 1931 to 1938. Historical Data for Germany running from 1931 onwards is now available. From 1979 onwards there is a Top 100 models ranking. And from 2005 to 2013 you can now see the…
BMW 3 Series (US model shown) * See the full article by clicking on the title! * One Bloomberg story about worldwide premium sales I thought was interesting enough to share here. After being passed by Audi in worldwide sales in January, BMW regained the top spot in luxury auto…
2013 VW Golf: the favourite of Albanian consumers? * See the entire article by clicking on the title! * We stay in the Balkan area to go to Albania, which I have left alone for almost two years simply because official sales data is inexistent. With the knowledge of the…
Audi A5 * See the Top 38 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! * The Singaporean new car market is down a painful 49% year-on-year in February to just 1,354 registrations, potentially disturbed by the Lunar New Year celebrations. Mercedes remains the most popular brand in the country but…
Renault Megane * NOW UPDATED with the Top 50 models and Top 40 All-brands! Click on title to see * Very difficult year for new car sales in Portugal, down 38% on 2011 which was already down 31% on 2010... At a total 95,290 registrations, this is the first time since…
Renault Clio * See the Top 100 best-selling models and Top 30 brands by clicking on the title! * The Austrian new car market is down 12% year-on-year in February to 21,196 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 48,957 units, down 4% on 2012. After one month interruption in January, it's…
The Perodua MyVi is likely to have kept the title of best-selling car in Malaysia in 2012 * See the Top 46 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! Thanks Aero for the tip * Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) figures show that new car sales in the country are up…
Hyundai sales are up 40% year-on-year in February in Belgium. * See the Top 38 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! * Excellent hold of the Belgian new car market in February given the overall depressed context the European market has fallen into: up 4% year-on-year to 45,400 registrations.…
Skoda Citigo * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Back to reality for new car sales in Denmark this month: down 14% year-on-year to 12,245 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 26,991 units, down 0.3% on 2012. The VW Up! manages to hold the…
VW Polo * See the Top 200 best-selling models and Top 47 All-brands by clicking on the title! * At 58,384 registrations, Spanish new car sales are down 10% year-on-year to reach their lowest February score in over 20 years. Looks like we are in for one more depressed year in…
Opel Astra Sports Tourer * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Italians car buyers are some of the last in the world with the Swedish and Slovak to continue their love affair with Station Wagons (SW): most models in the Large segment are sold almost exclusively through that…
Volvo V40 * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 34 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Full month data for February is starting to trickle in and as usual Sweden is the first cab off the rank. The market is still down a worrying 14% year-on-year to 17,860…
VW Lavida * See the Top 289 All-models and Top 64 All-brands rankings by clicking on the title! * Finally Chinese models data for January is in, and it's a whopper month indeed: up 46% on January 2012 now that Japanese carmakers are back in shape. The biggest event this month…
2013 Mercedes E-Class * See the Top 153 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * 3,789 new vehicles found a buyer in Hong Kong in January, and the two premium German models that already topped the 2012 ranking are now in uncharted territory: this month they each hold over…
Nissan Qashqai * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * Down a painful 10% year-on-year to 911,859, the European new car market delivers its worst month of January since 1990... If the UK (+11%), Poland (+8%) and Portugal (+6%) progress, Germany (-9%), France…