Volvo sales are up 25.5% in a Canadian market down an estimated 2%. Local consultancy Desrosiers estimates new light vehicle sales in Canada dip roughly -2% year-on-year to around 158.000 sales. This is the 7th year-on-year drop this year but an indication sales are stabilising after gaining 2.4% in September. It…
Chevrolet now assembles cars in Kazakhstan. Picture kaz.tengrinews.kz The Kazakh new vehicle market remains oblivious to the Coronavirus crisis, with September sales marking a 5th consecutive month of year-on-year gains at a stellar +62.6% to 10.142 units. This lifts the year-to-date tally up 22.3% to 63.408. Lada (+123.3%) more than doubles…
The Toyota Camry breaks its ranking record in Poland to #19. The Polish new car market ends a dreadful streak of 8 consecutive months of double-digit year-on-year falls in September at +7.6% to 37.419 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -28.1% to 289.298 sales. Toyota (+38%) posts the largest…
First ever monthly win for the Renault Sandero in Ukraine. New car sales in Ukraine post a second straight positive month - and double-digit gain - in August at +10.2% year-on-year to 8.392 units, meaning the year-to-date tally is now down just -1.7% to 45.536. Brand leaders Renault (+19.7%) and Toyota…
The new Chevrolet Captiva already ranks just outside the Top 20. Picture aljarida.com The Kuwaiti new car market stumbles down -36.6% year-on-year over the first 7 months of 2020 to 38.736 units. After Q1 volumes sank -20.3%, April imploded -80.2% to 1.601 vs. 8.085 in April 2019, May worsened to…
Hongqi (+133.7%) symbolises the recovery of the Chinese market and its SUV segment, with both the brand (15.103) and the HS5 (9.117) breaking all-time records. Doing even better than the +11.7% anticipated, Chinese wholesales soar +14.5% year-on-year to 2.194.000 units according to data released by the China Association of Automobile…
Without heavy truck sales, the Chinese market would still be down in April. New vehicle wholesales in China have bounced back even stronger than preliminary data suggested in April, up 4.4% year-on-year to 2.07 million units, bringing the year-to-date tally down -31.1% to 5.761.000 units. After February deliveries collapsed -79.1%…
Peugeot 308 sales are up 179.5% in a market down -50.3%. Given the current COVID-19 lockdown context, new car sales in Romania resist relatively well in April at -50.3% year-on-year to 4.321 units. This brings the year-to-date tally down -27.5% to 32.300 sales. Brand leader Dacia (-37.6%) holds markedly better than…
MG breaks into the UAE Top 10 over Q1 2020 thanks to sales up 184.3%. UAE new car sales drop a stiff -8.7% year-on-year over the First Quarter of 2020 to 47.462 registrations. January is down -1.9% to 16.846 units and February up 8.1% to 17.192 but the COVID-19 pandemic…
Nissan leaps to 26.7% share of the Omani market in 2020. New car sales in Oman only edge down -2.8% year-on-year over the First Quarter of 2020 to 23.874 registrations. Brand leader Toyota (-12.7%) falls much faster but remains out-of-touch at 46.6% share vs. 51.8% a year ago. In contrast,…
The Toyota Land Cruiser holds almost 40% of the Yemeni market. New car sales in Yemen edge down -4.6% year-on-year over the First Quarter of 2020 to 1.867 registrations. Toyota (+0.9%) further strengthens the hermetic grip it has on the market to an unfathomable 97.1% share vs. 93.9% over the…
The Kia Rio scores its first ever podium finish in Kazakhstan. Despite declaring a state of emergency on 15 March and placing the cities of Nur-Sultan and Almaty in quarantine on 19 March, the Kazakh new car market is unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic so far, with March sales shooting…
Audi Q2L sales are up 79.8% year-on-year in March. Our selection of vehicles in China in March show retail sales drop -34.9% year-on-year to 1.026.653 units, a significantly slimmer fall than wholesales (-43.3%). As a result the Q1 volume is now down -42.6% to 2.947.341. For the past two years, BSCB…
Mercedes manages the only single-digit drop in the Top 20. After strict lockdowns stifled February wholesales down -79.1% and just as the rest of the world gets hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese new vehicle market is already bouncing back quite spectacularly, as we already mentioned in the past week.…
The Ram 1500 wins 6 U.S. States in 2019. Picture motortrend.com For the 6th year in a row and thanks to our partnership with JATO Dynamics, we can share with you today separate rankings of the Top 10 best-selling vehicles for each U.S. State over the Full Year 2019. This data is…