The Peugeot 208 is the best-selling vehicle in Spain this month and YTD. New car sales in Spain are up 128% year-on-year in March to 85.819 units and down -14.9% year-on-year so far in 2021 to 186.061. However these figures are compared with a lockdown volume in March 2020. A…
The Toyota RAV4 repeats at #1 in Norway in February. Norway is one of only three European countries to show positive year-on-year sales in February alongside Sweden (+5.3%) and Ireland (+4.9%) at +3.3% to 10.687 units, leading to a year-to-date tally up 5.4% to 20.988. Electrified vehicles hit 87.3% share…
The Skoda Octavia remains the best-selling vehicle in Slovenia. The Slovenian new car market drops -12.9% year-on-year in February to 4.833 registrations, leading to a year-to-date volume down -21.6% to 9.224. Volkswagen (-24.9%) remains the best-seller in the country despite losing almost twice as much ground year-on-year as the market overall.…
The Mercedes GLB is up 8-fold to 7th place in Denmark in February. Note January 2021 data is also included in the tables below. New car sales in Denmark dive -33.9% year-on-year in February to 9.912, leading to a year-to-date tally down -40.1% to 20.168 units. Volkswagen (-49.7%) has its…
The Peugeot 208 is the best-selling vehicle in Portugal in February. As the country was in lockdown for the entire month, new car sales in Portugal implode -59% year-on-year in February to just 8.311 units, the worst fall in Europe for the month so far. This leads to a year-to-date…
Mercedes is the most popular carmaker in Switzerland in January. The Swiss new car market starts the year with a -19.5% year-on-year drop in January to just 15.130 registrations. Mercedes (-10.8%) resists well and takes the lead of the brands ranking for the third time in the past 6 months…
The Peugeot 2008 is the best-selling vehicle in Portugal in January. The Portuguese new car market sinks -30.5% year-on-year in January to just 10.029 units. Peugeot (-15.6%) and Mercedes (-16.3%) both manage to roughly cut the market drop rate in two to take the lead of the brands ranking while…
Nissan Lannia. Picture cnwnews.com As is the tradition on BSCB tradition, after exploring October data in detail, we now go through the all-new locally produced models that enter the sales charts this month and study their sales perspectives. This section is reserved to models that have kick-started local production, import launches will be covered within the…
Renault Logan * See the Top 20 best-selling French models by clicking on the title * See the Top 1000 best-selling models in the world in 2014 here. After detailing the best-selling luxury nameplates worldwide in 2014, we now study the ranking based on a few nationalities. First off, France.…
The Hyundai i20 breaks into the UK Top 50 this year. * See the Top 352 All-models ranking by clicking on the title * The UK is the last Top 12 market to be updated with a full All-models ranking for the 1st Quarter 2015, exclusive to BSCB. You can see all…
The Renault Mégane is back up to #6 overall this month. * Now updated with the Top 250 best-selling models and Top 40 brands * French new car sales are finally getting a significant boost this month: up 9.5% year-on-year in March to 196,572 registrations, partly thanks to one more opening…
The Peugeot 2008 posts the biggest year-on-year gain in the 2014 UK Top 50. * See the Top 365 All-models ranking by clicking on the title * The time has arrived: I can now share with you the much anticipated all-models ranking for the UK over the Full Year 2014. This data…
UAZ Patriot sales are up 2% on March 2014. * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 55 All-brands by clicking on the title * The precarious state of the Russian new car market is reaching new lows in March: down 42.5% year-on-year to just 139,850 registrations, bringing the first…
Mercedes C-Class sales are up 73% while the VW Passat is up 23% in Europe in January. * See the Top 335 All-models and Top 53 All-brands by clicking on the title * Refined European data now available shows a market still up 6% to 1.023.880 registrations in January. If Volkswagen (+9%),…
Renault Twingo III * See the Top 20 best-selling brands and Top 100 models by clicking on the title * On paper the French market is trending up: +4% in February to 147,130 registrations and +5% year-to-date at 280,300 deliveries. However the reality of the market is much more depressing:…