Geely Emgrand EC7 (South African version shown) * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Igor * As always the month of September is pretty weak in Ukraine at just 14,379 registrations, down 27% year-on-year and bringing the year-to-date total to 157,620 units, now up…
Honda Airwave This is Part 8 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are now moving 855km East to Irkutsk, which is 80 km off Lake Baikal. And here again a fascinating car landscape awaits… From roughly 30% of…
Hyundai i30 and Australian Toyota Corolla hatchback * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Now that we have explored in detail the July worldwide sales charts, it's time to go through the year-to-date rankings to extract longer-term trends. The fight for the title of…
Lada Zhiguli * See the Full Photo Report and my estimated Top 10 models by clicking on the title! * Over the last couple of weeks I have been backpacking my way along the Trans-Siberian railway, hopping on and off the train and discovering very different car landscapes along the…
The Kia K3 is now the best-performing all-new model so far in 2013. * See the Top 326 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * As is now the tradition on BSCB, after going through the monthly sales charts and focusing on the all-new models entering the ranking, we…
The Ford Focus is the best-selling model in the world so far in 2013. * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Austin * After going through the Top 300 best-sellers for the month of June, as is the tradition on BSCB we…
Sales of Zotye Z300 are up 908% so far in 2013. * See the Top 321 All-models Ranking by clicking on the title! * Contact me at matt@bestsellingcarsblog.com for a more in-depth analysis of this market. As is now the tradition, after going through the July models ranking in detail…
Skoda Rapid * See the Top 150 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Igor * As in neighbour Russia, new car sales in Ukraine hit the brakes in June: down 18% year-on-year to 16,534 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 104,276 units, down 5% on 2012.…
VW Lavida * See the Top 319 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * After exploring the June sales charts in detail and looking at the all-new entrants in the ranking, I give you the 6 months summary for China. If the US market (our first 6 months update)…
The Ford Focus is the best-selling passenger car in China in June. Or is it really? * See the Top 306 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * Passenger car sales are up 12% year-on-year in June to 1.29 million units, adding up to 8.18 million units halfway through…
The Hawtai Lusheng E70 is one of 50 all-new models in the Chinese ranking (#282). * See the Top 315 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * Now that we have explored May sales in detail and focused on the 5 all-new models entering the Chinese ranking this month,…
The BYD e6 being offloaded at Southampton docks, UK on June 13, 2013. * See the Full article by clicking on the title! * As a follow-up to my articles World: How the Chinese are setting themselves up for success (Part 5: Mature markets) and UK: 50 electric BYD e6…
FAW V2. FAW is now among the Top 10 most popular brands in Uruguay. * See the Top 20 best-selling brands by clicking on the title! * While writing my summary article about how Chinese carmakers are setting themselves up for success in Latin America, I realised I hadn't updated…
Toyota Corolla XI (Japanese version): still ahead worldwide. * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Austin * Now that we have gone through the worldwide February ranking in detail, the year-to-date updates designed to extract longer-term trends are back! Like in 2012…
Great Wall Haval H6 * See the Top 308 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * After going through April sales in detail for China, as is the tradition on BSCB we are now exploring the year-to-date ranking to try and extract longer-term trends. The two best-sellers continue to…