Peugeot 308 * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * Would the French new car market finally see the light at the end of a stagnation tunnel? Sales are up a very healthy 11% year-on-year over the first 19 days of March and…
The Peugeot 308 is up to #2 at home in France so far in March. * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales are up an encouraging 4% year-on-year over the first 12 days of March, bringing the year-to-date total…
Fiat Panda in Napoli, Italy * See the Full Photo Report by clicking on the title! * Last time I visited Italy was in August 2013 in Vintimiglia, and there the Fiat 500 was so omnipresent in the streets that I called the Photo Report "a Fiat 500-mania". This weekend…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * You can see the Europe February 2014 Brands article here After studying the European brands ranking in detail yesterday, let's now have a look at the models ranking, in a market brilliantly up year-on-year for…
Mercedes A-Class * See the Top 191 All-models and Top 30 brands by clicking on the title! Thanks Antonio * Another heart-warming month for the Portuguese new car market: February is up 40% year-on-year to 10,546 registrations, the 8th consecutive month of year-on-year gain, bringing the year-to-date total to 19,807…
Peugeot 308 II in Cannes, France. I'm taking advantage of a short stay in the South of France to update you all quickly on the French car landscape. Last time I was here was in September 2013, and I then saw "a surprising amount of Peugeot 2008 but not as…
VW Polo * See the Top 260 All-models and Top 44 All-brands by clicking on the title! * New vehicle sales in Turkey are down a harsh 28% year-on-year in February to 35,021 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 67,691 units, down 19% on 2013. Note these figures include LCVs. Brand-wise,…
The VW Tiguan breaks into the German podium for the very first time this month. * See the Top 280 best-selling models and Top 50 brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Germany are up an encouraging 4% year-on-year in February to 209,349 registrations, bringing the…
Fiat 500L * See the Top 90 best-selling models and Top 33 All-brands by clicking on the title! * It has now been almost one year (11 months exactly) that the Slovenian new car market shows year-on-year improvement, with February at +6% to 4,047 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to…
Toyota Hilux * See the Top 140 best-selling models and Top 35 brands by clicking on the title! * Second consecutive month of year-on-year decline for new car sales in South Africa, down 3% to 51,814 registrations (exports are down 19%!), which brings the year-to-date total to 104,848 units, down 5%…
The VW Up is #2 in Wales and #7 in Scotland this month. * See the Top 10 best-selling models for each nation by clicking on the title! * Thanks to SMMT, I can share with you the best-sellers for each nation in the UK in February, all in one update.…
Dongfeng Fengshan H30 Cross. PSA could use Dongfeng's Fengshan brand as its low-cost option. * Check out Part 2 of this Special Report on French manufacturers here * Lately there has been a lot of talk, speculation, and actual structural changes within both French car manufacturers, Renault and PSA Peugeot-Citroen,…
Audi A4 * See the Top 230 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Monaco are up 6% year-on-year in 2013 to reach 2,556 registrations, and now is the time to share with you an exclusive models ranking for the Principality, you won't find this…
The Renault Clio was the best-seller in Slovenia for 25 years. Detailed Slovenian Historical Data covering 20 years is now available on BestSellingCarsBlog, with the Renault Clio dominating the sales charts over the period, and even since all the way back to 1998 when the second generation of the nameplate…
Mercedes A-Class * See the Top 33 All-brands and Top 200 All-models by clicking on the title! Thanks Antonio * New car sales in Portugal enjoy their 7th consecutive month of year-on-year growth in January, and once again we are talking about a very sizeable gain: up 32% to 9,260…