The Coronavirus outbreak has brought the Chinese market to its knees. In line with our expectations earlier in the month, as a result of the country effectively shutting down in February, wholesales of China-made light vehicles drop -79.1% year-on-year this month to 310.000 units. Passenger Vehicles are down -81.7% to…
The Peugeot 2008 II breaks into its home Top 5 for the first time in February. 19/03 update: Now with the Top 285 All-models. The French new car market records a second consecutive month in negative in February at a much more palatable -2.7% year-on-year to 167.785 units, leading to…
The Chevrolet Menlo has landed in China. As a teaser to our upcoming February wholesales update, we can detail today the new locally-produced launches for the month, a very peculiar time in China when the entire automotive industry shut down. As such it's even surprising that we have two launches in…
The Renault 4 is the most popular vehicle in Colombian automotive history. March 2020 update: Historical info spanning 1970 to 1986 added, as well as complete monthly and annual Top 30 brands for 2012. Historical Data spanning exactly five decades is now available for Colombia on BestSellingCarsBlog. In the 1970s,…
The Renault Logan is the best-selling vehicle in Colombia in February. The Colombian new vehicle market soars 11.1% year-on-year in February to 20.547 units, leading to a year-to-date volume up 13.1% to 38.974. In the brands ranking, Renault (+20.8%) continues to widen the gap with its archenemy Chevrolet (+3.3%) while…
As of March 6, South Korea is the 2nd country in the world most affected by the coronavirus. 17/03 update: Now with Top 10 foreign models. The coronavirus outbreak, which has infected 6.284 South Koreans (the most in any nation outside China) and killed 40 as of March 6, has…
The Toyota Vios breaks its market share record in Vietnam this month. After freefalling -52.8% in January, the Vietnamese new vehicle market bounces back up 34% year-on-year to 17.616 registrations, helped by a weak year-ago comparison impacted by Lunar New Year holidays. The year-to-date tally is now down -28.4% to…
That's a lot of kangaroos... Last October we took the Hyundai i30 on a spin to see if it was up to the fight against its main target, the Toyota Corolla of which we tested the hybrid variant in February 2019. The result: we thought it was, in the sense that…
All French car dealerships must now remain closed until 15 April. Picture Reuters Gonzalo Fuentes. After drops of -13.4% in January and -2.7% in February, the French new car market sinks -23.2% over the first two weeks of March to 54.990 sales vs. 71.634 over the same period in 2019,…
First win for the VW Golf in a year in Austria. Picture carmagazine.co.uk The Austrian new car market sinks -10.9% year-on-year in February to 21.067 registrations, pulling the year-to-date tally down -10% to 44.026 units. Volkswagen (-25.4%) behaves a lot worse than the market but easily remains atop the brands…
The Ford Puma has landed inside the UK Top 30. Granted, it's January figures but BSCB can now share with you a Top 120 models ranking for the UK, a traditionally very secretive market outside its Top 10 models, in an endeavour to cover UK sales charts a lot more…
Toyota RAV4 sales are up 7-fold year-on-year in New Zealand. New vehicle sales in New Zealand drop another -2.8% year-on-year in February to 11.348 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -4.2% to 24.502. Passenger cars fall -11.1% to 2.214, light commercials sink -12.5% to 3.150 but SUVs blissfully ignore…
1 in every 4 Nissans sold in Bulgaria is reexported to other EU markets. The Bulgarian new car market continues to freefall in February at -17.9% year-on-year to just 2.575 registrations, pulling the market down -16.5% to 5.494. This particularly severe correction can in fact be traced to a somewhat…
The Renault Triber breaks into the South African Top 25. New vehicle sales in South Africa edge down -0.8% on a revised February 2019 figure to 43.485 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -3.5% to 83.719. Brand leader Toyota (-10%) falls heavily but easily remains the most popular carmaker…
The Alpine A110 scores one of its strongest market shares in 48-Lozère, the most rural department in France. For the second consecutive year we can share with you the Top 20 best-selling brands for each of 103 French departments, with the tiny overseas departments of St Martin and St Barthelemy…