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%…
* See the Top 12/50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * From 2002 to 2005, the Chevrolet Corsa dominates the Colombian car market by a safe margin with 4,688 sales over 8 months 2002 and 13,029 sales (or 8.9% share) over the Full Year 2005. The #2 changes…
Perodua Kancil In 2004, new car sales in Malaysia leap up 15.2% year-on-year to break a new annual volume record at 487.313 units. After falling apart in 2003 (-26.8%), Proton stops the rot with a 7.2% uptick to 34.6% share, widening the gap with Perodua (-1.8%) at 25%, but adding…
VW Gol * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * The Argentinean car market was hit full frontal by the crisis in 2002, falling under 100,000 units. It recovers pretty swiftly over the next few years: up 48% in 2003 at…
The Caprice is Chevrolet's best-selling car in Saudi Arabia over the period. New car sales in Saudi Arabia continue to gallop ahead with 2004 volumes up 14.8% year-on-year to a record 341,477 units. Toyota (+5.4%) trails the market but still lodges a splendid 34.9% share. It is followed this year…
Daewoo Lanos 121,437 new cars found a buyer in Egypt in 2005. Below the Chevrolet TFR pickup (aka Isuzu D-Max) at 10,765 sales and 8.9% sales, the locally-produced Daewoo Lanos is #2 with 10,043 units and a solid 8.3% share. The Hyundai Matrix rounds up the podium with 8,270 sales…
FAW Tianjin Xiali New vehicle sales in China leap up 16.8% year-on-year in 2005 to 5,360,615 units, including 2.77 million Passenger Cars (+23%). This year, new legislation aimed at containing sales growth by restricting car credit has the effect of reshuffling the models ranking entirely, bringing to an end two…
* See the Top 25 All-brands and Top 95 All-models by clicking on the title * Indian new vehicle sales gain a further 7.3% in 2005 to lodge a fourth consecutive record volume at 1.225.678 units. Maruti continues to follow the market to remain very stable market share-wise at 42%.…
The podium is unchanged in Chile during 2004 and 2005 with the Chevrolet Corsa leader at 8.1% over 10 months 2004 and 7.8% over 2005. The Toyota Yaris in 2nd sees its market share slip down slightly as well, from 7.6% in 2004 to 7.3% in 2005. The Peugeot 206…
Brazilian car sales are up a healthy 10% this year at 1,620,657 registrations. The VW Gol's reign reaches Year 18, even though the 4th generation launched this year left car critics unimpressed with a leap backwards in interior design. VW's cash cow sells 179,457 units (-1%) for a 11.1% market…
Suzuki Ignis * See the Top 37 All-brands and Top 10 models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Hungary are stable in 2004 at 208.044 units (-0.2%) but market leader Suzuki sinks 15% to 16.3% share and #2 Opel is down 11% to 24.147 while Renault…