Ford is the #1 brand in Iceland this month. * See the Top 30 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! * The Icelandic new car market continues on its recovery, up 21% year-on-year in April to 768 registrations which brings the year-to-date total to 1,828 units, up 41% 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…
Chevrolet "Dabbabah" TFR * See the Top 147 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! Thanks Ldman * The Egyptian market confirms it is on the road to recovery with sales up 34% year-on-year in March to 22,943 registrations, bringing the First Quarter result to 62,817 units, up 27% on…
Toyota holds 39.7% of the Filipino car market this month. * See the Top 20 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! Thanks Myk * New car sales in the Philippines continue on their impressive and continuous growth in March: up 22% year-on-year to 22,181 registrations which brings the First…
Hyundai Verna in Ürümqi (click on any picture to enlarge) This is Part 2 of my Ürümqi Photo Report, you can check out Part 1 about the surprising strength of budget Chinese brands here. Yesterday I reported on how the Shanghai Englon SC7, SC3 and SC6, Dongfeng Fengshen S30 and H30 Cross…
The new Vios helped Toyota up to 16.8% share this month. * See the Top 45 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! * The Malaysian new car market is up 2% year-on-year in March to 58,919 registrations, bringing the First Quarter total to 159,910 units, up just 1% on…
The Siena was Fiat's best-seller in Uruguay in 2013. * See the Top 45 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! Thanks Leandro * New car sales in Uruguay are stable in March to an estimated 4,151 registrations, bringing the First Quarter total to 12,977 units, up 5% on 2013…
Remember when Auto Shows were fun and carmakers didn't take themselves too seriously? Today was the Press Day of Auto China 2014 in Beijing, the biggest annual Chinese Auto Show alternatively hosted in Shanghai and Beijing. My first striking impression is that even though China is now by far the…
The Wuling Hongguang launched this month in India as the Chevrolet Enjoy. * This is Part 4 of 5 in my series on Chinese carmakers abroad. See also Part 1 (Africa), Part 2 (Latin America), Part 3 (Eastern Europe) and Part 5 (Mature markets) * In the first 3 parts of this series we observed that…
Brazilian Chery QQ * This is Part 2 of 5 in my series on Chinese carmakers abroad. See also Part 1 (Africa), Part 3 (Eastern Europe), Part 4 (Asia) and Part 5 (Mature markets) * If Chinese carmakers have started exporting to Africa in the early 00′s, they set foot in Latin America even earlier, with JAC starting…
Hyundai Santa Fe * NOW UPDATED with Top 248 All-models and Top 32 brands! * New car sales in Canada are up a tiny 0.3% year-on-year in March to 157,228 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 358,857 units, up 0.9% on 2013. Ford keeps the lead of the brands ranking…
Audi A3 sales are up 67% in Europe so far in 2014. * See the Top 350 best-selling models and Top 58 brands by clicking on the title! * Today we inaugurate a new series on BSCB: on top of the US and Chinese market, I will now analyse the…
Chevrolet Spark (French model shown) * See the Top 10 best-selling models and Top 30 brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Mexico are back into positive territory in March at +3.5% year-on-year to 85,682 registrations, which brings the year-to-date total to 251,124 units, up 2%…
The Kia K900 lands at #249 in the US. * See the Top 261 best-selling models and Top 40 brands by clicking on the title! * As is the tradition on BSCB, after exploring US March sales we now go into the First Quarter results in detail to try and…
Ram 1500 * NOW UPDATED with the Top 260 best-selling models and Top 40 brands! * Car makers worldwide can exhale a sigh of relief: after a very slow start of 2014 (-1% in both January and February), US sales are back to a more dynamic 6% year-on-year increase in…