VW Passat The Swedes bought 30,853 new cars in May, an impressive 23% increase year-on-year. The year-to-date figure stands at 129,557 units, up 18%. The Volvo V70 stays on top at 2,110 sales and 6.8%, but the VW Passat, boosted by the new generation, is getting closer this month with…
Kia Sportage * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at the end of the post * The Slovak car market continues to shine, up 17% in April at 5,675 registrations and 29% year-to-date at 21,372 units. The Top 2 best selling models stay unchanged: the…
Skoda Fabia The Finnish car market is up a beautiful 22% in February at 9,301 registrations. The Top 3 best selling models are separated by only 12 units, with the VW Golf in #1 at 447 sales (4.8%), the Toyota Avensis up 1 spot in #2 with 439 sales and…
Slovak car sales finish the year at 64,033, down 27%. For the first time ever and after 10 consecutive years of Skoda Fabia domination, the best selling car in the country is the Skoda Octavia with 5,675 sales and 8.9%. The Fabia drops to 2nd at 4,766 sales (7.4%). The…
In a very stable market (+2% year-on-year), Skoda delivers a 1-2-3 in November: the Skoda Octavia reaches a very solid 16.2% share (vs. 15.4% YTD) whereas the Skoda Fabia slips back below 10% at 8.8%, and the Superb climbs back onto the podium with 3.1%. The Ford Focus is #4…
No car sales data available for Belarus, but the observation of Belarusian streets through recent YouTube videos show a structure very distinct from Russia and more alike neighbours Latvia and Lithuania: Lada has completely lost its grip on the Belarusian car market which appears to be very fragmented with a…
The Slovenian market is stable in October at 4,741 registrations and is growing by 7% year-to-date at 51,215 registrations. Renault dominates and places the Clio #1 at 7.1% year-to-date and the Megane #2 at 4.8%. The VW Polo and Golf are 3rd and 4th at both 4.1%, with the Polo…
The Slovakian market is slowly recovering from a dismal year: October is at +10% vs. 2009 but the year-to-date sales are still at -33% vs. last year. Like in Czech Republic, the Skoda Octavia is ahead, followed by the Fabia, but their market shares are significantly lower: 8.6% and 7.5%…
Skoda Superb The Czech car market is handling ok in 2010, with +7% vs.09 over 10 months at 138,979 registrations, but -7% in October at 13,126. Skoda is extremely strong at home with 4 models in the first 4 spots! The Octavia leads at a massive 15.3% market share, ahead…
After an unusual month of August that saw the VW Golf take the lead for the first time in years with close to 6% of the market, the Swedish car market is back to normal in September with the Volvo V70 in first position at 7.9% market share, double the…
Dacia Sandero The Romanian market did one thing in 2009: it crashed to the ground, going from 324,080 sales in 2008 to 147,962 (-55%) in spite of of government subsidies. In this chaos, the Dacia Logan has managed to slightly improve its market share, from 23.4% to 23.7%. It's lower…
March 2020 update: Now with Top 60 All-brands and Top 340 All-models. The Czech new car market surges 12.5% year-on-year in 2009 to 161.659 units. Skoda (+6.9%) returns to growth but continues to see its market share decline, this time by 1.5 percentage point to 29.5% only two years after…
Boosted by incentives, the Slovak market is up again at +7% and 74,717 registrations in 2009. For the first time of its career, the Skoda Fabia is under 10% share in the country at -10% and 7,116 sales (9.5%). Another first: perhaps for the first time in over a decade,…
Fiat Punto * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * For the first time in at least a decade, the Renault Clio's domination of Slovenian car sales is seriously threatened in 2009: the Fiat Punto and Kia Cee'd even were the two best selling models…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 10 Station Wagons by clicking on the title! * Poland has managed to go through the financial crisis relatively unscathed, with car sales down just 2% this year to 336,618 registrations. Big change at the top of the models ranking:…