The Elantra (+126.1%) helps Hyundai sales up 79.1% this month in Kazakhstan. New vehicle sales in Kazakhstan leap up 15% year-on-year in June to 6.400 units, lifting the year-to-date tally up 18.2% to 32.099. Hyundai (+79.1%) snaps the brands pole position for the first time since BSCB started following Kazakhstan…
The Hyundai Kona is the best-selling new car in Saudi Arabia over the period. As we described at length in our latest Saudi Arabia update, the arrival of women on the Saudi new car market has kicked sales into gear after years of deep decline. H1 2019 volumes are up…
The new Camry (+39.3%) helps Toyota up to 35.1% share in Qatar. Thanks to the return of Audi, BMW, Volkswagen and Porsche into the dataset, the Qatari new car market nudges into positive territory for the first time in 4 years at +2.1% year-on-year to 24.147 units over the First…
The new Corolla (+9.7%) helps Toyota up to 50% share in Oman. No sign of improvement for new car sales in Oman down a ghastly -15% year-on-year over the First Half of 2019 to 53.641 units. Toyota (-10.5%) resists a lot better than the market to hit a round 50%…
The Toyota Land Cruiser is now threatening the Prado for the Kuwaiti pole position. The Kuwaiti new light vehicle market confirms it is back on track with a splendid 14.8% year-on-year uptick over the First Half of 2019 to 54.892 units. The best-selling brands trio all outpace the market: Toyota…
Toyota Land Cruiser sales are up 12.1% so far in 2019 in Bahrain. The Bahraini new car market skids down a worrying -14.3% year-on-year over the First Half of 2019 to 14.772 sales. Both Toyota (-18.8%) and Nissan (-22.4%) fall faster than the market whereas Hyundai (+4.5%) posts a sturdy…
Honda posts the largest year-on-year gain in the Top 13. A last minute sales rush in June to clear out non-compliant vehicles ahead of the implementation of Stage 6 emissions standards means the Chinese retail market is actually up 4.6% over H1 2019 to 10.630.614 units. It has been a…
Honda manages to swim upstream in China, and the facelifted XR-V will continue the trend in H2. It's a Semester to forget for new light vehicle wholesales in China, down a ghastly -12.4% year-on-year over the First Half of 2019 to 12.323.000 units. This cancels four years of growth, represents…
The Toyota Prado is the best-selling vehicle in Turkmenistan. For the second consecutive year we can share with you annual official sales data for the very secretive nation of Turkmenistan. And the news aren't good for 2018, with a new car market freefalling down -77.7% to just 168 units. Toyota…
Ram sales are up 28% year-on-year in the U.S. so far in 2019. New light vehicle sales in the U.S. are down -2.1% year-on-year over the First Half of 2019 to 8.446.693 units, the lowest H1 volume in the U.S. since 2014 (8.16m). Behind this relatively modest drop hides the…
The Ram Pickup incredibly breaks its all-time volume record for the 6th time in the past year. The U.S. new light vehicle market is still searching for its first monthly gain with June deliveries disappointingly down -1.9% year-on-year to 1.527.274 units. One bright spot is the seasonally adjusted annual sales…
Lada 4x4 sales are up 38.9% year-on-year in Kazakhstan in May. The Kazakh new car market manages a 16th double-digit year-on-year gain in the past 17 months in May at +17.1% to 6.165 registrations, meaning the year-to-date volume is now up 19% to 25.699. Toyota (+7.8%) remains in the brands…
Mazda2 sales soar 60.3% year-on-year in Thailand this month. The Thai new light vehicle market soars 8.7% year-on-year in April to 86.076 units, marking 20 consecutive months of 8% year-on-year gains or more. The year-to-date tally is now up 10.5% to 349.625 sales. At opposite ends of the Top 5…
The lift of the ban on driver's licences for Saudi women has boosted new car sales spectacularly this year. Picture Saudi Information Ministry via AP. The time has finally come! After imploding 53.2% between 2015 and 2018, including a painful 23.4% last year, new light vehicle sales in Saudi Arabia have bottomed…
The Toyota Land Cruiser cements its domination of the Qatari market. After three consecutive years of double-digit losses, new car sales in Qatar continue to slow down their fall but remain in negative territory so far this year at -2.7% to 19.675 units over the first 5 months of the…