Fiat Palio The car market explodes in Brazil in 2007: +28% at 2,342,059 units! That's way above France (2,064,999) and just under Italy (2,506,323) and Great Britain (2,404,007)... The VW Gol is still the best seller (243,164 sales, 10.4% share) but this year the Fiat Palio was breathing down its…
Hyundai Sonata * See the Top 40 best-selling local models by clicking on the title! Thanks to Pedro * Another year with the Hyundai Sonata in the lead in South Korea, however this time the fight is very close with the Hyundai Avante (aka Elantra) at #2: 119,133 sales (+2%)…
Honda Civic New light vehicle sales in Canada leap up 2.5% in 2005 to 1.583.599 units. Rare event atop the brands ranking: Chevrolet (+0.7%) reclaims the top spot off Ford (-4.5%) for the first time since 1991. Toyota (+2.3%) follows the market at 10.5% share in third place, with the…
Chevrolet TFR The Egyptian car market is up 41% this year at 170,614 units. If the best-seller doesn't change - still the Chevrolet TFR Pickup at 14,305 sales and 8.4%, the rest of the Top 5 is reshuffled. Toyota Yaris The Hyundai Verna is up 7 spots, going from 3.8%…
Chevrolet Aveo The Colombian car market is up 38% in 2006 at 201,635 registrations. As far as the model rankings in concerned, it is a changeover year: the ageing Chevrolet Corsa gives way to the Chevrolet Aveo, #1 this year with 16,644 sales and 8.3% share. The Chevrolet Optra and…
Toyota Camry * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * Relative set back for trucks this year in the US: the Ford F-Series is the best-selling vehicle in the country for the 25th year in a row in spite of a…
Chevrolet Aveo In a market growing at a hectic pace at 228,378 units in 2005 (+70%) and 343,351 in 2006 (+50%), the Chevrolet Aveo replaces the Corsa on top of the models ranking over the period, with a 9.9% share of the market in 2005 and 7.6% in 2006. The…
The Ecuadorian car market establishes itself at 86,618 registrations in 2006 and Chevrolet places no less than 5 models in the Top 6! The Chevrolet Corsa Evolution is the best selling car in the country with 11,498 sales and 13.3% ahead of the Chevrolet Luv D-Max (aka Isuzu D-Max) at…
At 12,047 sales, the Hyundai Accent is a distant #1 this year, well ahead of the Toyota Hilux in #2 with 8,599 sales. Just below, the Dacia Logan jumps on the podium in 3rd with 8,557 units sold. The Hyundai Atos drops 2 spots in 4th and the Chevrolet Aveo…
After +9% in 2004 and +10% in 2005, the Brazilian car market accelerates its growth, up 13% in 2006 at 1,830,402 registrations... The VW Gol celebrates 19 years on top of the Brazilian ranking out of the last 20, and delivers 189,132 units this year for a 10.3% market share.…
The Nissan Tsuru resumes its domination of the Mexican market. It's another record year for Mexican new car sales in 2005, up 4% to 1.157.137 units, only the 2nd time in history above one million. Nissan (+0.1%) edges up to retain the brands pole position with 20.3% share but Chevrolet…
Hyundai Grandeur * See the Top 40 best-selling local models by clicking on the title! Thanks to Pedro * The Hyundai Sonata is the most popular car in South Korea for the 7th time in the last 8 years thanks to sales up 25% year-on-year to 116,482 units. The rest…
Ford F Series Another very strong year for trucks in the US: the Ford F-Series is the best-selling model in the country for the 24th consecutive year with 901,463 sales, down 4%. It broke its monthly volume record in July with no less than 126,905 units sold, or one every…
More than 150.000 Isuzu D-Max were sold in Thailand in 2005, a record. Half a decade after the financial crisis that annihilated the market, Thai new vehicle sales finally return to pre-crisis levels with 2003 volumes up 28.9% to 518.440, only the third half-million+ annual result in Thai history after…
Suzuki Swift * See the Top 40 All-brands and Top 20 models by clicking on the title * The Hungarian market is down 4.3% year-on-year in 2005 to 199.068 registrations. Suzuki posts a 9th consecutive year atop the brands ranking, this time frankly outpacing the market at +16% to 19.7%…