Nissan Leaf * NOW UPDATED with the Top 100 best-selling models: click on title to see! Thanks Alex * Good start of the year for the Norwegian car market, up 4% on January 2011 at 10,838 registrations. The VW Golf leads the way for the 7th consecutive month with 482 sales…
2012 Audi A1 Sportback * NOW UPDATED with the Top 302 best-selling models! Click on the title to see * German car sales are up 4% in November 2011 to 269,144 registrations, with the year-to-date total still up a very healthy 9% at 2,929,133 units. Unusually, the Top 5 best-selling models…
Toyota Camry * NOW UPDATED with the Top 150 best-selling models! Click on the title to see * The Ford F-Series is faithful to its American pole position this month, even growing by 24% year-on-year at 47,740 sales. It is up 9% year-to-date at 516,639 units. At #2, the Chevrolet…
Honda Pilot * See the Top 130 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * No change atop the American models ranking in October: the Ford F-Series leads the way with 52,511 sales and is followed by the Chevrolet Silverado at 36,656 units, both up 7%…
1962 Ford 17M * See 'Read more' for the direct links to these 7 new posts! Thanks to Florian for the data * I am now able to share with you the best-selling models in West Germany from 1962 to 1979 in much more detail! For 1962, 1963 and from 1971…
The BMW Isetta was on the German sales podium from 1955 to 1957 * Click on 'Read more' at end of post for the direct links to these 5 new posts! * Thanks to Florian, I can now share with you more detailed sales figures for Germany from 1948 onwards!…
Dodge RAM * See the Top 125 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * The American car market is up 10% this month at 1,053,722 units and year-to-date at 9,518,172 registrations. Truck sales are up 16%: the Ford F-Series passes the 50,000 sales mark for…
The VW Fusca was #1 in Brazil from 1954 to 1980 The direct links to 41 Historical articles are below. January 2020 update: There is now a Top 20 brands ranking from 2003 onwards, Top 10 for 2002 - 10 articles have been updated over the 2002-2010 period. To celebrate…
1969 Chevrolet Opala: among Brazilian best sellers throughout the seventies I have now completed a review of the Brazilian market going back to 1954. Witness the domination of the VW Beetle (called Fusca in Brazil) from 1954 through the sixties and seventies... Explore the 1980's 'malaise' with the Fiat 147…
VW Beetle 1980 Toyota Corolla Historical Info on the best selling cars around the globe since 1960 has now been posted. Pretty straight forward really, with the VW Beetle in the lead all through the sixties and into the mid-seventies, then losing its top spot when production dropped due to…
Street Scene in Asmara, Eritrea. Picture by Eric Lafforgue. All rights reserved. The Eritrean car market is very easy to decipher because a handful of cars clearly dominate the streets. In all likeliness and judging by the number of old gen models filling the streets, the Toyota Hilux should be…
The Nissan Platina lands directly at #5 in Mexico. New light vehicle sales in Mexico celebrates a 5th straight record year in 2002, up 7.1% to end up just a smidge below the symbolic million mark at 997.923 units. Chevrolet (+15.1%) reclaims the #1 brands spot off Nissan (+9.6%) with the…
The Nissan Tsuru (aka Sentra) sells over 100.000 units in Mexico in 2001. The Mexican new car market breaks its annual record for the 4th year in a row in 2001, lifting it 4.3% to 932.164. Nissan (+10.4%) reclaims the brands top spot for the first time since 1996, toppling…
The Chevrolet Joy/Swing, based on the Opel Corsa, is #2 in Mexico. It's a second consecutive record annual volume in Mexico in 1999 with sales up 5.9% to cross the 700.000 unit-milestone for what is believed is the first time in history at 716.938. Chevrolet (+1.7%) loses share for the…
The Chevrolet C/K Pickup lands at #5 in Mexico in 1997. New car sales in Mexico continue on their spectacular recovery in 1997 at +67.5% to 504.778 units. Chevrolet (+142%) more than doubles its sales year-on-year to leap from #3 to #1 brand, overtaking Nissan (+64%) while Ford (+89.4%) passes…