The Ford Escort is the best-selling Passenger Car in the US in 1987 and 1988. Thanks to an avid reader of BSCB, I have now added full models ranking for the USA for each year between 1985 and 1991, slowly but surely filling up the holes in US Historical Data on…
Toyota Vios (Chinese model shown) * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Vietnamese new car market is up another massive 20% year-on-year in May to 9,849 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 44,133 units, up 26% on 2013. Boosted by the new model,…
Mazda3 Axela * See the Top 327 models by clicking on the title! Thanks Carnewschina for the pricing info * As is the tradition on BSCB, after going through detailed sales figures for May, I spend a bit more time acknowledging the all-new entrants in the models ranking, to ensure you are across…
The Lincoln MKC is one of 3 all-new models to pop up in the US ranking this month. * See the Top 266 best-selling models and Top 38 brands by clicking on the title! * As is the tradition on BSCB, after going through May figures for the US we…
Hyundai Genesis - Hyundai delivers its biggest monthly volume since the brand landed in the US in February 1986. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 258 models, Top 38 brands & Top 15 groups! * May light vehicle sales in the US are up a massive 11% to 1.608.693 registrations,…
Toyota Yaris * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Ldman * The Saudi new car market is up 11% year-on-year in March to 69,015 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 194,479 units, up 5% on 2013. After the Hyundai 'hijack' from January (Hyundai Elantra #1…
Toyota Vios (Thai model shown) * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Vietnam enjoy their 13th consecutive month of year-on-year growth at a mammoth +26% in April to 10,116 registrations. This brings the year-to-date total to 34,284 units, up an…
The Toyota Hilux is king of the desert in the Middle-East… Picture by 3zoz_1 Gulf Cooperation Council 2005-2019: All Make and All Models monthly data available. Contact us here for more details Selected Historical Data below: Gulf Cooperation Council Full Year 2011: Toyota Hilux, Corolla and Camry on top Gulf Cooperation Council Full Year…
RAM Pick-up sales are up 23% so far in 2014 in the US. * See the Top 263 models and Top 38 brands by clicking on the title! * Every month on BSCB after going through US April sales we explore the year-to-date charts to try and extract longer-term trends. Thanks to…
Jeep is up 52% year-on-year in April. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 260 models, Top 15 groups and Top 40 brands! * New light vehicle sales in the USA are up a beautiful 8% year-on-year in April to 1,390,513 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 5,134,255 units, up 3% on…
Kashgari man and Jonway UFO A380 After exploring the extraordinary pick-up landscape in Kashgar, some 3.400km away from Beijing in South-Western China, we now go into its overall car landscape. In Chinese classification, we have gone from first-tier city (Beijing), 2nd-tier (Chongqing), 3rd-tier (Ürümqi) and now with Kashgar we are at…
Toyota Vios * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Only incomplete data - a Top 10 excluding LCVs - is available for now for Vietnam, where new car sales were up a splendid 22% year-on-year in March. This brings the First Quarter total to…
Chongqing street scene (Click on any picture to enlarge) Now that you know the secrets of Beijing hutongs and the most impressive Chinese carmakers at the Beijing Auto Show, we go on a bit of adventure inside China. First stop is Chongqing, one of the fastest-growing cities on earth, 1.500km…
Dongfeng Number 1 Concept This is it: the top of the crop, the utmost impressive Chinese carmakers at the Beijing Auto Show. It doesn’t get better than this. Would you have guessed them? This is Part 8 of my Beijing Auto Show coverage, check out also Part 1- First impressions, Part 2 – Most…
Road Train vs. Skoda Octavia… Who wins? I have been mentioning the new generation Skoda Octavia on BestSellingCarsBlog a lot in the past 6 months as it progressively climbed the European rankings to reach an all-time high 5th place in October and November 2013, ranking inside the Top 10 for 5…