VW Santana * NOW UPDATED with the Top 309 All-models and Top 66 All-brands rankings! * The Chinese market is up an insolent 18% year-on-year in February to 1.6 million units, brushing off all suggestions that it may slow down in 2014… Below the traditional Wuling Hongguang (65,129 sales), VW…
Chevrolet Sail * See the Top 10 models and Top 60 brands by clicking on the title! * The Chilean new car market is up a very solid 11% year-on-year in 2013 to 378,240 registrations, way higher than the 350,000 forecast at the start of the year and to my…
Honda Crider * See the Top 324 All-local models by clicking on the title! * * The Full Year 2013 Report is here! * Thanks to over 2 million vehicles sold in December, up 18% year-on-year, China confirms its status of biggest car market in the world and finishes 2013…
The Wuling Hongguang just passed the VW Lavida to become #1 year-to-date in 2013. * See the Top 345 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * Now that we've gone through November data by models and brands, it's time to study the year-to-date models ranking in China to extract…
Record RAV4 sales helped push Toyota to #2 overall this month. * See the Top 66 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! * After going through the best-selling passenger cars in November in China, let's shed the light on the brands ranking. Keep in mind this ranking doesn't include…
Never had a Japanese model sold as many monthly units in China as the Nissan Sylphy... * See the Top 319 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * Sales of passenger cars in China gain a very robust 15% year-on-year in November to 1.63 million units, with the overall…
VW Touran * See the Full Photo Report by clicking on the title! * This is Part 25 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Report here. After taking you through Beijing streets, on a visit of the Chaoyang car market in Beijing-East, and through a…
The VW Lavida is #1 in 2013 thanks to the Gran Lavida... * See the Top 339 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * As is the tradition on BSCB, after looking at the October best-sellers in China, we delve into the year-to-date models ranking a little deeper to…
Baojun had its own dedicated (albeit small) dealership... * See the Full Photo Report by clicking on the title! * This is Part 22 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Report here. After an introduction to the Beijing car landscape, I was lucky…
The Honda Jade lands directly at #79 this month. * See the Top 313 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * This month no less than 7 all-new nameplates make their appearance in the Chinese Passenger Car ranking, 6 of them Chinese. While the Honda Crider is currently 2013’s most…
The ChangAn CS35 is the only Chinese all-new model in the Top 100 so far in 2013. * See the Top 335 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * I give you the ranking for now, complete analysis will follow shortly. Full 9 months 2013 Top 335 All-models Ranking…
The Kia K3 is now the best-performing all-new model so far in 2013. * See the Top 326 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * As is now the tradition on BSCB, after going through the monthly sales charts and focusing on the all-new models entering the ranking, we…
Bugatti Grand Sport Vitesse - grille This post is sponsored by Deal4yourwheels. This is Part 3 in a 5-part series dedicated to the Frankfurt Auto Show. You can read Part 1 about Tesla here and Part 2 about Maserati and the Frankfurt car landscape here. The last two articles, about Peugeot and…
Sales of Zotye Z300 are up 908% so far in 2013. * See the Top 321 All-models Ranking by clicking on the title! * Contact me at matt@bestsellingcarsblog.com for a more in-depth analysis of this market. As is now the tradition, after going through the July models ranking in detail…
The ChangAn Minibus is the 2nd best-selling vehicle in China. * See the Top 5 best-selling LCVs and Top 10 overall models by clicking on the title! * With a little bit of delay I can now share with you Light Commercial Vehicles June sales data for China. This segment…