* Click on the title for street videos! * Tanzania is one of Toyota Corolla's favorite playgrounds: up to 1 in 3 vehicle on Tanzanian roads is a Toyota Corolla. Even though the new generation is still very hard to notice, in all likeliness it should be the best selling…
Toyota Hilux in Livingstone, Zambia June 2007 * Click on title for more street scenes! * The Zambian car market shows the strength of Toyota: at least 1 in every 3 cars is a Toyota Corolla! In all likeliness the Corolla is still the best-selling car in the country these…
Toyota Hilux in Kasane, Botswana June 2007 * Click on title for more street scenes and Total market data for 1985-1999 * Toyota 'owns' the Batswana market with 1,958 sales and 40% market share in 2007, ahead of Nissan at 8% and VW at 5%. Observation in the country in 2007…
No car sales data available for Belarus, but the observation of Belarusian streets through recent YouTube videos show a structure very distinct from Russia and more alike neighbours Latvia and Lithuania: Lada has completely lost its grip on the Belarusian car market which appears to be very fragmented with a…
Picture by Aljazi Al-Nasr. All rights reserved. Car sales in Qatar are pretty easy to decipher as a few models really stand out. The Toyota Land Cruiser is omnipresent in the streets of Doha and should secure no less than 15 to 20% of the Qatari market this year. In…
Each Middle-Eastern state has a Toyota model at #1, and in the case of Bahrain, the Toyota Yaris Sedan and Camry should fight it out for the first place, followed by the Corolla and Nissan Tiida. Other models that could also slip into the Top 10 include the Honda Accord,…
Chevrolet Lumina The Kuwaiti car market is similar to its neighbour's, Saudi Arabia. 2 of the Top 3 likely best sellers are imported from Australia: The Toyota Camry should be the leader, and the Chevrolet Lumina (aka Holden Commodore) could be #3. The Toyota Hilux should come in 2nd. Toyota…
No surprises, the Toyota Corolla is the best-selling car in the world in 2009, thanks to very strong results in the USA, Japan, China and most of Asia and Africa. 908,661 units of the model were sold in 2009 alone. The Ford Focus takes the second spot with 781,139 registrations,…
Nissan March The Thai market is recovering from the crisis at full speed: the first 8 months 2010 are at +56% vs. '09 at 488.088 registrations! The Top 4 is stable: Toyota Hilux (20%), Isuzu D-Max (15%), Toyota Vios (8%) and Honda City (6%) dominate the sales. The Corolla Altis…
Absolutely no car sales data coming from Jordan, so I'm using YouTube videos of Amman's streets to find out more about this market. This is complete speculation based on very little information so please get it touch if you have any more info! It looks like the old generation Mitsubishi…
Observation of the streets of Muscat through YouTube videos, show clearly enough that the Toyota Yaris sedan dominates the Omani car market, ahead of the Toyota Corolla. Other successful models are the Hyundai Elantra, Kia Cerato, Toyota Land Cruiser and Kia Picanto. Please get in touch if you have any…
The latest official data I could get my hands on dates back to 2003 and was limited to Abu Dhabi. The Toyota Land Cruiser was leading the way then ahead of the Toyota Corolla, Nissan Sunny, Nissan Patrol and Mitsubishi Lancer. Observation in Abu Dhabi and Dubai during my last…
Thanks to our friend Bart D at www.autoweek.nl, and www.autonews.com, we finally have up-to-date figures for the Canadian market, in reasonably good shape in 2010 at +1% in October (123,310 sales) and +7% Year-to-date with 1,330,658 registrations. The Ford F-Series is very impressive in #1 with a 24% growth over '09 at…
The Israeli market is very healthy over the first 10 months of 2010 at 176,684 registrations and +28%. Mazda is still the #1 manufacturer but its margin over #2 Hyundai has reduced dramatically: 25,808 sales vs. 24,974. The rankings by segment are extremely stable this year with the Mazda2, 3…
* Click on title for more pictures! * Observation of the streets of Yangon through YouTube videos bring to light a particular situation in the Myanmar car market: very high import taxes make new cars an out of reach prospect for most consumers, and in this context, the 1992 Toyota…