VW Golf. Picture by Merucu, all rights reserved. * NOW UPDATED with Top 50 best-selling models: click on title to see! Thanks Alex * New car sales are up 1% year-on-year in Norway in March at 13,051 registrations, bringing the 2012 year-to-date total to 34,814 units, up 3% on 2011. After…
Nissan Qashqai * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Irish new car market is down 9% year-on-year in March at 13,010 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 45,628 units, down 4% on 2011. Big surprise on top of the models ranking: the Nissan…
Volvo V60 * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Swedish car market performs better than expected in this start of the year at just -3% both in March with 28,555 registrations and year-to-date at 67,976 units. The Top 5 best-selling models in the…
Peugeot 208 * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Another slow week for the French new car market at 50,785 registrations, down 22% year-on-year. Faithful to its tradition of selling the majority of its models towards the end of the month, Renault reclaims the…
Will the ChangAn Eado be the Chinese model to crack Western Europe? * See the full article by clicking on the title! * We have covered how Chinese models were struggling to rule their own market, but how do their fare outside of China? Based on all the data I…
Toyota Aqua * See the Top 75 best-selling Japanese models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Austin * Thanks to the hard work of Austin Rutherford, I can now share with you a more detailed models ranking for Japan in February 2012, including break downs into different variants.…
Hyundai Accent * See the Top 5 best-selling models and Top 10 best-selling brands by clicking on the title! * Better late than never, I can now share with you Full Year 2011 data for Panama, bringing to 71 the number of countries with official Full Year 2011 data on…
Chevrolet Aveo After breaking a record in 2011, new car sales in Colombia start even better in 2012 with 23,456 registrations in January, up 13% year-on-year, and 27,371 in February, up 7%. The 2012 year-to-date total stands at 51,253 units, up 11%. Chevrolet confirms its newly acquired brands top spot…
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…
Renault Kangoo * See the Top 5 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Austin * Excellent start of the year for Moroccan car sales, up 19% year-on-year in January to 9,752 registrations. Having reclaimed the overall pole position towards the end of last year, the Renault…
Hyundai Accent RB * See the Top 85 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * 13,950 new vehicles found a buyer in Egypt in February and for the first time since last October the Chevrolet TFR pick-up is the best-selling model in the country, by far,…
VW Up! * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Tuga * The tough times continue for the Portuguese car market, down 48% year-on-year in February to 6,932 registrations, the slowest month of February in 26 years! The Renault Clio reclaim a pole…
Citroen C4 Aircross * Click here to access the updated France February 2012 article! * Thanks to info shared by STAC I can now share with you a Top 200 best-selling models ranking for France in February 2012! At #120 the Peugeot 208 takes one step back (it was #83…
Sales of ChangAn Taurus may be counted as ChangAn Mini Bus, #44 in the world in 2011 * See the updated 2011 World Top 105 best-selling models here * Just a quick update to let you know that I have amended the Worldwide Top 100 models ranking I published yesterday with a couple…