Skoda Octavia * See the Top 280 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * That's it. The heavyweight of European new car sales is now officially in recession: the German market is down a horrid 17% year-on-year in March to 281,184 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 673,957 units,…
VW Beetle * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Sales of imported models in Japan are up a very healthy 7% year-on-year over the first Quarter of 2013 to 85,596 registrations, 21.9% of which are Japanese models produced abroad and reimported into the country…
Nissan Qashqai * See the Top 100 best-selling models and Top 18 brands by clicking on the title! * It's definitely not a good year for new car sales in France, down another 16% year-on-year in March to 165,244 registrations which brings the year-to-date total to 433,297 units, down 15% on…
BMW 3 Series Touring * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Sales of new station wagons (SW) in Italy are down 26% year-on-year in March to 8,774 registrations, bringing the SW market share down from 8.6% in March 2012 to 6.6% this month. The…
VW Golf * See the Top 38 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! * In March Belgium aligned itself with the rest of Europe: down 11% year-on-year to 53,076 registrations, which brings the year-to-date total to 149,160 units, still up 0.5% on 2012. The brands ranking is back in…
The VW Tiguan should rank high in the Graubünden canton in 2012 * See the Top 20 best-selling brands by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Rutger * Thanks to Rutger we have now access to official data for a region of Switzerland called Graubünden, the country's largest and easternmost canton and home…
Chevrolet Camaro * See the Top 15 best-selling Sports cars by clicking on the title! * The original World Full Year 2012 Top 1000 is here. This World article is brought to you by Insure4aDay Short Term Car Insurance. We continue on our World 2012 series by segment and now explore…
VW Passat (US model shown) * See the Top 40 best-selling Medium/Large cars by clicking on the title! * The original World Full Year 2012 Top 1000 is here. This article is brought to you by SparePartStore from the UK. Granted this segment includes two categories: Medium and Large, but the…
Suzuki Alto * See the Top 60 best-selling City cars by clicking on the title! * The original World Full Year 2012 Top 500 is here. Now that the worldwide best-sellers are available, I thought it would be a good idea to look at the detail by segment, so that…
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…