In spectacular fashion, car sales in Brazil grow 13% this year to pass the 3 million units mark for the first time ever at 3,009,482 registrations. The VW Gol is the best selling model in the country for the 22nd year out of the last 23 with 303,051 units changing…
Fiat Punto Evo * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Car sales in Italy are stable in 2009 at 2,157,791 units. The Fiat Punto is the best selling model in the country for the 16th year in a row, but God was it hard!…
Renault Symbol In 2009, three passenger cars clocked in more than 10,000 sales in Algeria: the Renault Symbol at 16,258, the Suzuki Alto at 11,096 and the Dacia Logan at 10,598. The Chevrolet Aveo Sedan, leader of the market a couple of years ago, is now #4 at 8,743, ahead…
After 3 years of uninterrupted reign, the Toyota Yaris drops to #5 over the first 7 months of 2009, in a very tight ranking: only 232 sales separate the #1 from the #5. The Hyundai Accent holds the top spot with 2,941 sales, reflecting the progression of Korean brands in…
Suzuki SX4 * See the Top 37 All-brands and Top 10 models by clicking on the title! * At 158.628 registrations in 2008, the Hungarian car market is starting to feel the effects of the economic crisis, down 10.4% on 2007. Suzuki enjoys its 12th consecutive year as the country's…
VW Gol - Picture by Mario Amati, all rights reserved. * See the Top 40 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * Argentinean car sales and going gangbusters over the period: up 17% at 450,040 units in 2006, up 26% at 567,850 sales in 2007…
The Honda Civic is the most popular vehicle in Canada outright for the very first time in 2008. Now with All-brands and All-models rankings instead of a 9 months Top 50 models. The Canadian new light vehicle market resists very well in 2008 at just -0.9% to 1.638.233 units. Fresh…
Chevrolet TFR * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at the end of the post * At 261,112 registrations this year, the Egyptian car market is up 15% on 2007 and has doubled in size in just 3 years! The Chevrolet TFR Pickup is back…
ZAZ Lanos * See the Top 9 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Record year for new car sales in Ukraine at 623,253 registrations. The locally-produced ZAZ Lanos dominates the sales charts with 55,783 units and 9% market share above the Chevrolet Aveo at 5.3% and the Lada…
Honda Civic * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * With petrol hitting $4 a gallon, the US models ranking has gone through an eventful year, trucks have lodged their poorest performance in over 20 years and passenger cars climbed to…
Nissan Tsuru The Mexican car market is down 7% this year at 1,025,520 registrations. The Nissan Tsuru is the best selling car in the country for the 5th year in a row and it manages to improve its market share greatly from 5.8% in 2007 to 6.7% this year with…
Lada 2107 * See the Top annual and monthly 53 All-brands and annual and monthly Top 20 models by clicking on the title * The Russian new car market soars 23.6% year-on-year in 2008 to smash its all-time volume record at 2.897.459 registrations. This remains the largest ever annual volume in Russia, making…
Chevrolet Aveo The Venezuelan car market reaches an all-time record in 2007 at 491,899 registrations (+43% over 2006) before falling 45% in 2008 at 271,622 units. The Top 4 best selling models stays unchanged over the period. Chevrolet reinforces its domination by placing 3 models on the podium: the Chevrolet…
In Chile the Toyota Yaris takes the lead in 2006 and holds this position in 2007 and 2008, while seeing its market share slip down from 8.4% to 5.9%, in line with the progressive fragmentation of the market. The Chevrolet Corsa drops to 2nd in 2006 and stays there too,…
VW Gol At 2,671,338 registrations (+14%), the Brazilian car market is now the 4th biggest in the world, below the USA, China, Japan and Germany. Car sales in Brazil simply doubled in 5 years! On top for the 21st year, the VW Gol saw its vastly improved 5th generation launch…