First Top 5 finish in Finland for the Volvo XC40. Picture tekniikanmaailma.fi The Finnish new car market slices its May loss in two with June sales down -25.5% year-on-year to 7.709 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -21.9% halfway through the year at 46.244. Volkswagen (-23.3%) and Skoda (-23.3%)…
Skoda is the most popular carmaker in Bulgaria so far in 2020. The situation is bettering in Bulgaria with June new vehicle sales down -33.1% year-on-year to 2.717 vs. -68.1% in May, -74% in April and -45.4% in March, bringing the year-to-date total to 12.759 units, down -44.6% over the…
The Citroen C3 ranks #2 in New Caledonia in June. As a French territory, New Caledonia, an archipelago located north-east of Australia, benefits from the government stimulus that kick started on June 1 and sees its June registrations soar 35.2% year-on-year to 810 units, meaning the year-to-date tally already almost levels with 2019…
Our Chinese market expertise has been put to good use once again in what is now an 8th consecutive year of collaboration between BSCB and French car monthly L’Automobile Magazine. Like last year, in 2020 BSCB was given full responsibility for a 20-page Chinese section in what is referred to…
Citroen sales are up 134.9% in a market down -2.4%. 30/06 update: Now with Top 25 models. As the country progressively returns to normal after the COVID-19 crisis, Turkish new car sales drop just -2.4% year-on-year in May to 32.235 registrations, which in fact gives a false sense of recovery as…
Peugeot is the best-selling brand in Belgium in May. 30/07 update: Now with YTD Top 120 models and May Top 50 models. 30/06 update: Now with YTD Top 10 models. After enduring one of the strictest coronavirus lowdown in Europe and the highest death rate per million in the world…
...meanwhile Ssangyong is up 3700%! 30/06 update: Now with YTD Top 10 models. Slovak new car sales continue to be battered by the coronavirus crisis with May registrations down another -58.3% year-on-year to 4.123, showing only a slight improvement on the -61.5% from April. The year-to-date tally is now down…
The Peugeot 3008 swims upstream in May with a year-on-year gain. New car sales in Latvia drop -57.9% year-on-year in May to 744 units, pulling the year-to-date volume down -32.7% to 5.297. The Toyota RAV4 (-55.1%) cements the top spot it also holds year-to-date, distancing the Skoda Octavia (-51.5%), VW…
The Citroen C3 is the best-selling vehicle in North Macedonia in May. According to data released by our Eastern European data specialist partner CE Auto, new car sales in North Macedonia sink -56.4% year-on-year in May to 274 units, pulling the year-to-date tally down -23.9% to 1.776. The Citroen C3 (+15.4%)…
Opel scores the best hold among the Top 10 brands at -28%. 30/06 update: Now with Top 10 models. New car sales in Luxembourg rally back in May as the country is progressively reopening after a COVID-19 lockdown with sales down -43.8% to 3.041 leading to a year-to-date tally down…
Bentley ranks #12 in Monaco and Lamborghini #16. Picture autogespot.com Consult almost a decade's worth of Monaco Historical Data here. 29/06 update: Now with Top 265 All-models ranking. Exclusive to BestSellingCarsBlog, we can share with you today and for the 9th year in a row official new car sales data for the…
The Hyundai Santa Fe lodges its first Top 10 finish of 2020. Based on data shared with us by our Central European market data partner CE Auto, new car sales in Moldova rally back to -27.7% year-on-year in May to 399 registrations after stalling -72.9% in April. The year-to-date tally is now…
The Suzuki Jimny ranks inside the Austrian Top 60. We can now share with you more models detail for the Austrian car market over the first four months of the year. Among recent launches (<12 months), the Mazda CX-30 lands at #27, the Skoda Kamiq at #41, the Ford Puma…
The Toyota RAV4 is the best-selling vehicle in Cyprus again. According to data shared with us by our local partners SEMO Cyprus and INNOSOFT, the Cyprus new car market rallies back to just -29.5% year-on-year in May and 790 registrations. This is a drastic improvement on the -77.9% of April and it…
The Renault Arkana ranks #27 over the period. A new Top 135 Passenger Cars ranking is now available for Russia for the January-April 2020 period, giving us a much better look at this market than our monthly Top 25. And there's a lot happening just outside the familiar group of…