Renault is the #1 brand in 54 French departments in 2018. For the first time in the history of BSCB we can share with you the Top 20 best-selling brands in France by department, for all 100 of them, over the Full Year 2018 but also 2017 for comparison. This…
Read the full article (in French) by clicking on the image above. For the second time in the past 4 months, BSCB and I were featured in the paper edition of French newspaper Le Monde (25th April), one of the most important and widely respected newspapers in the world according to Wikipedia.…
The Toyota RAV4 wins 7 States in 2018 vs. just 5 in 2017. For the fifth year in a row and thanks to our partnership with JATO Dynamics, we can share with you today separate rankings of the Top 5 best-selling vehicles for each U.S. State over the Full Year 2018.…
The CX-5 (+118%) helps Mazda up 45.8% in Mexico this month. The Mexican market keeps its decline to a minimum in March at a slim -1.2% year-on-year to 117.135 units, which could signal a return to form later in the year. The YTD tally is down -1.5% after three months…
The Toyota Hilux holds 8.9% of the South African market in March. New vehicle sales in South Africa drop -3.1% year-on-year in March to 47.718 units, with passenger cars down -5.6% to 30.348 while light commercials gain 1.9% to 14.994. The rest of the market goes to medium and heavy…
Fiat Tipo in Tirana, Albania in August 2018. One of the 10 countries we dashed through in 10 days last August with a Dacia Logan was Albania, for which there has never been any official new car sales data published. I have to admit one of the motivations for conducting…
Skoda Fabia in Perast, Montenegro One of the 10 Eastern European countries we visited in 10 days in a Dacia Logan last year was Montenegro, population 678.000. There hasn't been any official data for this market since 2014, so I will draw on my observations on the touristic Adriatic coast in…
The Dacia Sandero is estimated to be the best-selling vehicle in Andorra in 2018. My recent Peugeot 3008 test drive took me to the Principality of Andorra between France and Spain and it was a great opportunity to estimate the best-sellers in one of the tiniest countries in Europe. Quite…
Volkswagen is the #1 brand in Belgium, with the Golf topping the models charts. Consult 30 years of Belgian Historical Data here. This article has been updated with the Top 290 All-models. New car sales in Belgium edge up 0.7% in 2018 to 549.632 registrations. Volkswagen (+4.5%) drives past Renault (-1.4%)…
The Mitsubishi Outlander is the most popular vehicle with Icelandic private buyers in 2018. Consult over 15 years of Iceland Historica Data here. This article has been updated with the Top 100 models. Iceland is back on BSCB after a two-year hiatus, but the market suffers a harsh drop in…
Volkswagen sales shoot up 35.5% year-on-year in Guadeloupe. New passenger car sales in Guadeloupe, a French overseas archipelago located in the Caribbean Sea home to 398,000 inhabitants step up 5.6% year-on-year in 2018 to 17.620. Peugeot (+3%) remains comfortably in the lead with 16.6% share while Renault (-1.8%) skids down to…
Citroen posts the largest gain in the Martinique Top 6 in 2018. New car sales in Martinique, a French overseas island located in the Caribbean Sea home to 380,000 inhabitants, gain 5.8% year-on-year in 2018 to 15.700 units (our 2017 article featured sales including light commercials). Peugeot (+10.8%) frankly outpace the…
Hyundai breaks into the Top 5 brands in French Guiana. For only the second time on BSCB, we can share with you official sales data for French Guiana (simply Guyane in French), a French overseas territory located on the Atlantic Ocean coast in South America, west of Brazil (see map…
One in five passenger cars sold in Mayotte in 2018 is a Dacia. Today we add a new market on BSCB! New car sales in Mayotte, an overseas French territory located North of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean and home of 256,000 inhabitants, are up a strong +8.9% to 1.412 units. The…
The Renault Clio now outsells its archenemy the Peugeot 208 in Reunion. This article has been updated with the Top 20 brands. The new light vehicle market is up a sturdy 5.9% to 28.189 passenger cars, up 4.2% to 32.349 including light commercials in the Réunion Island, an overseas French territory…