The Skoda Octavia is the best-selling vehicle in Bosnia in March. According to data shared with us by our Central European market data partner CE Auto, the Bosnian new car market drops -30.6% year-on-year in March to 616 registrations, tilting the Q1 volume tally into negative at -1.6% to 2.285. The…
The Dacia Logan is back to #1 in Moldova. New car sales in Moldova are down -43.4% year-on-year in March to 275 unfits according to our Eastern European data partner CE Auto, pulling the year-to-date tally down -19.5% to 1.114. The Dacia Logan (+25%) ingress the surrounding gloom to reclaim the…
Ram is the only manufacturer in Mexico to post a year-on-year gain in March. As of March 31, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Mexico amounted to 1.315 and a partial lockdown had just been announced, scheduled to last until May 30. As a result, new car sales are…
Turkish sales went from +89.4% in February to +1.6% in March, but no COVID-19 lockdown yet means the coming slump may last longer. 30/04 update: Now with Top 25 models. Even though President Erdoğan urged the Turkish public to stay at home on March 18 and all international borders and…
The Saudi market posts a 5th straight Quarter of double-digit growth. The Saudi new car market continues to be spectacularly boosted by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of women at the wheel since the ban on Saudi women driving was lifted on 24 June 2018. After Q1 2019 (+14.3%), Q2…
MG breaks into the UAE Top 10 over Q1 2020 thanks to sales up 184.3%. UAE new car sales drop a stiff -8.7% year-on-year over the First Quarter of 2020 to 47.462 registrations. January is down -1.9% to 16.846 units and February up 8.1% to 17.192 but the COVID-19 pandemic…
Wolodymyr the Dacia Duster in Bender, Transnistria. Our 10 countries in 10 days in a Dacia Logan epic adventure was such a hit with you BSCB readers that Dacia Romania agreed to lend me a Duster for 18 days in September 2019, well before COVID-19 travel restrictions temporarily put an…
The Toyota Land Cruiser is #1 in Jordan in 2020 so far. Picture yallamotor.com The Jordanian new car market drops -9.5% year-on-year over the First Quarter of 2020 to 6.793 registrations. Toyota (-1.9%) resists significantly better and improves its market share to 34.1%, while the next 4 brands all fall…
GMC Sierra sales are up 6-fold on Q1 2019 in Qatar. New light vehicle sales in Qatar edge down -6.2% year-on-year over the First Quarter of 2020 to 11.468 registrations. Toyota (-7%) almost exactly follow the market to hold an ultra-dominant 35.7% share with Mitsubishi (-5.9%) the only additional carmaker…
Nissan overtakes Toyota to become the #1 brand in Lebanon in 2020. New car sales in Lebanon collapse -57.1% year-on-year over the First Quarter of 2020, partly due to drastically inferior registrations by Toyota (-75.3%), market leader over the FY2019 with 36.1% share but down to 14.7% so far in…
The Kia Cerato teases the Hyundai Tucson for the Syrian top spot. The Syrian new car market continues to be decimated by the war that rages in the country, with Q1 2020 volumes down another -34.9% to just 1.209 units. Only two brands remain present in this market: Hyundai (-52%)…
The Isuzu D-Max holds a round 20% of the Thai market in March. 24/07 update: Now with Top 62 All-models. With 1.651 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of March 31 (and 2.931 at the time of writing), Thailand seems to have been relatively spared by the pandemic, however low testing levels…
Italy is scheduled to ease its national lockdown next Monday May 4. Local manufacturers association UNRAE today announced that just 2.073 new cars were registered in the country between April 1-24 as the country was under a strict national lockdown all through the month, and predicts the market will freeze…
The Toyota RAV4 is the best-selling vehicle in Georgia so far in 2020. 783 new light vehicles found a buyer in Georgia over the First Quarter of 2020. Toyota is the uncontested leader over the period, soaring to 41.3% share vs. 30.1% over the Full Year 2019. Skoda leaps up…
The Toyota Land Cruiser holds almost 40% of the Yemeni market. New car sales in Yemen edge down -4.6% year-on-year over the First Quarter of 2020 to 1.867 registrations. Toyota (+0.9%) further strengthens the hermetic grip it has on the market to an unfathomable 97.1% share vs. 93.9% over the…