The Volvo S/V90 sells double any other nameplate in market in January. * See the Top 42 All-brands and Top 260 All-models by clicking on the title * After two successive record years in 2016 and 2017, the Swedish new car market starts 2018 on the wrong foot: down 1.3% in January…
First win in the UAE this decade for the Toyota Land Cruiser. Picture crankandpiston.com * See the Top 45 All-brands and Top 100 models by clicking on the title * Consult over 10 years of UAE Historical Data here It's a difficult year for new car sales in the UAE: down…
Renault sales in Slovenia more than double in May. * See the Top 35 All-brands and Top 200 All-models by clicking on the title * The Slovenian new car market is up a splendid 17% year-on-year in May to 6.235 registrations, lifting the year-to-date tally up 8% to 28.488 units.…
Ford F-350 in Prudhoe Bay, AK After starting in Barrow, the northernmost settlement in the United States, our second stop takes us 200 miles (320 km) south east to Prudhoe Bay, again on the Arctic Ocean. As I detailed in the opening report, there are no roads linking Barrow to Prudhoe Bay,…
Audi revealed the new generation A4 in Frankfurt Yesterday I had the privilege to interview Xavier Benoit, Head of Communications at Audi France. As is the tradition on BSCB, the focus was on sales performance and strategies. Here are the best bits: BSCB: Audi France sales are up 4% so…
The progressive spread of the new gen sedan should help the Corolla keep the worldwide lead... * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Austin * Now that Middle-Eastern figures are out in the open, thanks to the hard work of Austin I…
Mazda CX-5 * NOW UPDATED with the Top 200 All-models/Top 10 brands! Click on title to see * Norwegian new car sales are up a healthy 7% year-on-year in January to 11,639 registrations, and it is a very eventful month for the models ranking indeed! Below the VW Golf back to…
Peugeot 504 Station Wagon in the background. Picture by Liki Fumei, all rights reserved. * Click on title for more street scenes and videos! * In 2011, 7,350 new cars were imported into Senegal, making it the biggest market in Western Africa. 585 of these were then re-exported in the…
* Click on title for Ghanaian street videos! * Ghana is one of the most dynamic car market in Africa, with 12,000 new car sales in 2011, double that of neighbour Cote d'Ivoire. It is also relatively mature, with a full variety of models available and a very fragmented structure.…
Toyota Corolla * See more street scenes by clicking on the title! * UPDATE: Thanks to the hard work of Myk I can now share with you more information about car sales in Bangladesh. And this market is booming, with 4,500 brand new cars sold in 2010 compared to 3,000…
Changhe Freedom in Dushanbe, Tajikistan * See street videos of Dushanbe, Tajikistan by clicking on the title! * Tajikistan is at a crossroads of various civilisations and its car market reflects this, with Chinese, Russian, Iranian, Kazak and Uzbek influences. Up to mid-2010, almost half of the cars in circulation…
Toyota Land Cruiser in Mogadishu, Somalia. Picture by danielzolli. All rights reserved. * See more Somalian street scenes by clicking on the title! * Under the spotlight today: Somalia. Given the country's last 17 years of on and off civil war, the car market in Somalia is rather disorganised and…
Advertising billboard for the Pyeonghwa Samchunri. Picture by Eric Lafforgue. All Rights reserved. * See the North Korean capital Pyongyang's streets as if you were there by clicking on title! * The North Korean car market is very limited but seems to have enjoyed a mini-boom over the last couple of years…
Street scene in Kathmandu, Nepal The next country under the spotlight this week is Nepal, where Hyundai has managed to establish itself solidly along with neighbours Maruti and Tata. Hyundai i10 The last Nepalese official car sales figures date back to 2002 when the Hyundai Santro overtook the Maruti Alto…
Great Wall Sailor and Toyota Hilux * See more street scenes by clicking on the title! * Next country in line to be put under the spotlight: Iraq! The Iraqi car market is a pretty difficult one to approach, with not much recent YouTube video material to draw upon and…