After The best-selling cars you’ve never heard of, China on the march and a piece on the re-export phenomenon in the European Union, I have now written a fourth feature in Britain’s biggest-selling weekly car magazine, Auto Express. In this week’s issue on sale today Wednesday 30th March, I go through 50 years worth of…
The Ford Cortina sold 193,784 units in 1979, a volume record for the UK * Click on the title for the Top 25 best-selling nameplates and Top 30 foreign nameplates * We can share with you an updated ranking exclusive to BSCB: the best-selling nameplates in the country, ranked by their volume…
The BMW 1 Series breaks into the annual UK Top 10 for the first time in 2013. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 45 brands! * * Check out 1965-2013 UK Historical Data here! * This UK Full Year 2013 Report is brought to you…
Renault 4 La Parisienne * Discover 50 French Historical Data articles spanning the last 65 years here * Today we inaugurate a new series on BestSellingCarsBlog: This was years ago…. Where I focus on one year in one country and reflect on the changes that have affected that specific market…
Peugeot 208 * See the Top 10 best-selling models and Top 44 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The UK new car market is one of the worldwide big surprises this year: contrasting with continental Europe stuck in recession, sales in the UK are up a fantastic 10% year-on-year…
Nissan Qashqai * See the Top 10 best-selling models and Top 43 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The UK new car market is the only one in Europe's Top 5 to gain ground year-on-year in 2012, up a shiny 5% to 2,044,609 registrations, the highest annual tally since 2008.…
The Ford Cortina was #2 in Norway in 1963 and from 1965 to 1969 The direct links to 40 Norway Historical Data articles are below Detailed Historical Data for Norway covering the past 65 years is now available. There is now a Top 10 models ranking for each and every…
The Ford Cortina was #1 in England for the first time in 1967 * 29 articles have been revised - click on the title for the direct links * Thanks to data shared by Florian I can now give you much more detail on the UK market since 1985, with…
We are now able to fill a significant hole in our New Zealand Historical Data with the learning that the locally assembled Ford Cortina was the best-seller here between 1977 and 1983 with over 100,000 assembled in total during that period. Many thanks to Ricardo Acosta Antunez for the tip.
Ford Cortina * See the Top 15 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * Helped by a facelift in 1979, the Ford Cortina leads the British car market in 1980 with 190,281 sales and in 1981 with 159,804. Ford monopolises the podium both years with…
Ford Cortina * See the 60 best-selling models by clicking on the title * New car sales in the UK are back on the up over the period, at +3% in 1977 to 1,323,524 registrations, +20% in 1978 to 1,591,941 and +8% in 1979 to a record 1,716,275 units. In…
Fiat 127 * See the Top 3 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Flavio * If the European best-seller stays unchanged for the 5th year in a row with the Fiat 127 clocking another 453,300 sales this year, below it the cards are redistributed once again.…
Ford Falcon 1977 is a very significant year for Australia, as it is the first year since the launch of the Holden brand in 1948 that a Holden does not top the annual sales charts. The Ford Falcon is responsible for this historical event, edging out the Holden Kingswood for pole…
1969 Chrysler Valiant * See the 1970-1973 yearly brands rankings & many more vintage pictures by clicking on the title! * Thanks to the help of the State Library of Sydney I have been able to continue searching through old Wheels magazines to share with you the evolution of the Australian…
Ford Escort * See the Top 15 best-selling models by clicking on the title * The UK new car market is back up 8% year-on-year in 1976 to 1,285,583 registrations. Eight years after its original launch, the Ford Escort is the UK's best selling model for the first time this year,…