Nissan Qashqai * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * Difficult year for new car sales in Europe, down 8% on 2011 to 12,573,842 registrations. The VW Golf manages to keep the pole position for the 5th year in a row but loses more…
Peugeot 208 * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * The European new car market finishes 2012 on a very dark note: down 15% year-on-year in December to 847,366 registrations, which brings the Full Year 2012 total to 12,573,842 units, down 8% on 2011.…
BMW 7 Series * NOW UPDATED with the Top 56 All-brands ranking! Click on title to see - thanks Richard+Michael * After ending almost one decade of Toyota domination last year, BMW is once again the most popular carmaker in Singapore with 5,038 sales, up 2% on 2011. In fact the…
Hyundai Santa Fe * NOW UPDATED with the Top 240 All-models ranking! Click on title to see * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * Thanks to 7,027 sales in December (-12% year-on-year), the Ford F-Series has become the first model to ever sell over 100,000 annual units in…
Great Wall V-Series. For the first time in Australia a Chinese model ranks in the Top 50. * See the Top 296 all-models and Top 50 all-brands rankings by clicking on the title! * This Australian update is brought to you by Motoring. Thanks to Ford Forums, I am able…
The VW Polo Vivo is a facelifted previous generation VW Polo * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * A very solid year for new car sales in South Africa: 2012 is up a healthy 9% on 2011 to 623,914 registrations. If in 2011 the…
Renault Mégane * See the Top 150 best-selling models and Top 40 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The Dutch new car market is down 6% in 2012 to 502,544 registrations and the Netherlands have become a case study of how government incentives towards low emission models can completely reshape a…
Dacia Dokker * See the Top 80 best-selling models and Top 35 All-brands by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * Another catastrophic month for new car sales in Romania: December is down 37% year-on-year to 4,828 registrations, bringing the Full Year 2012 total…
Mercedes B-Class * NOW UPDATED with the Top 50 All-brands ranking + Top 300 models! See title * There is now a Top 364 All-models ranking available here with splits between Golf/Golf Plus and many others In a gloomy European context, German new car sales have remained very solid in 2012,…
Mini Countryman * See the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 45 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Sales of new imported Passenger Cars are up a very healthy 15% year-on-year to 300,594 registrations in 2012, breaking the 300,000 annual unit-barrier for the first time in 15 years! As it…
VW Up! * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * Every quarter we have access to sales of imported vehicles in Japan, reported by a different organisation, the Japan Automobile Importers Association. Note that from now…
VW Tiguan * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Austrian new car market is down 6% year-on-year in 2012 to 336,010 registrations, and the most popular model in the country this year is familiar: the VW Golf is in the lead for potentially…
Fiat 500 * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * Danish new car sales are down a worrying 30% year-on-year in December, however the Full Year 2012 still reaches a record 170,763 units, up 0.4% on…
Citroen C3 * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The freefall continues for new car sales in Greece: after dropping by 17% in 2009, 36% in 2010 and 31% in 2011, it is down 40% this year to 58,476 registrations, the weakest annual result since…
Peugeot 208 * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * We have unfortunately become accustomed to month after month of deep decline for the Greek new car market, and December is no different: down 34% year-on-year…