The Hyundai Venue tops recent launches in January. Picture Caranddriver. Replicating the US situation we just covered, the monthly reporting stampede which started with GM in late 2018 has also spread to Canada with all manufacturers that stopped monthly US reporting bar Nissan/Mitsubishi now doing the same for Canada, leaving…
Toyota RAV4 sales shoot up 35.2% year-on-year in January. Monthly U.S. sales reporting is no more. From Tesla in 2017, to General Motors in 2018, Ford Motor and FCA in 2019, this month Nissan, the VW Group, BMW Group, Mercedes and Jaguar Land Rover have decided to follow suit and will…
The Audi e-Tron is the best-selling vehicle in Norway in January. New car sales in Norway rise 6.2% year-on-year in January to 9.561 units. Zero-emissions cars soar 24.3% to 4.236 units and 44.3% share vs. 37.8% a year ago. Hybrid sales surge 41.4% to 3.270 and 34.2% share vs. 25.7%…
167 Porsche Taycan found a new German home in January. 13/02 update: Now with Top 50 private sales models. New car sales in Germany skid down -7.3% year-on-year in January to 246.300 units, with business fleet sales (-5.1%) resisting better than the market at 168.469 and a whopping 68.4% share…
The Toyota RAV4 scores its first ever Top 5 finish in Poland. New light vehicle sales in Poland slide down -14.5% to 43.866 registrations including LCVs in January, -13.7% to 38.889 when only looking at passenger cars. Company sales account for 66.1% share (28.982) vs. 33.9% private sales (14.884) while petrol…
The Peugeot 208 hits a record 7% share in January, 1 in 4 sold being the e-208. 11/02 update: Now with Top 270 All-models. 4/02 update: Now with Top 10 EV models. After an artificially bloated December (+27.7%), French January sales logically fall back -13.4% to 134.232 units, the weakest…
The new Seltos helps Kia to a record market share. Picture ozroamer.com.au There is still no end in sight for the Australian new car market woes, with January sales marking a 22nd consecutive month of year-on-year drop down another steep -12.5% to 71.731 registrations. This is the slowest January tally…
The Toyota Raize is the #1 regular car in Japan for its 3rd month in market. New car sales in Japan skid another -11.7% year-on-year in January to 360.103 units, the 4th consecutive double-digit drop after -24.2% in October, -12.7% in November and -11% in December. Regular cars sink -11.1%…
The new generation Corolla helps Toyota up to 13.8% share in Ireland. Thanks to a bi-annual license plate system indicating the year of registration, January is traditionally the strongest month of the year in Ireland, accounting for roughly 30% of annual sales. 2020 starts with a decline at -3.5% year-on-year…
The VW Polo is #1 in the Netherlands for the 5th time in the past 10 months. New car sales in the Netherlands drop -7.1% year-on-year to 44.303 registrations even though January 2019 was already down -19.6%. Volkswagen (-7.9%) falls slightly faster than the market but easily holds onto the…
The Seat Ateca is up to a record 4th place at home in January. In a pattern we expect for most European Union markets this month, Spain starts the year down with January registrations at -7.5% year-on-year to 89.646. Company sales keep their head above the water, up 4.8% to…
The Nissan Versa is the best-selling vehicle in Mexico in 2019. Discover over 65 years worth of Mexican Historical Data here. The Mexican new light vehicle market endures a third consecutive year of decline in 2019: after -4.6% in 2017 and -7% in 2018, the fall accelerates to -7.6% to 1.317.937…
The VW T-Roc scores its first Top 10 finish at home at #6. Discover 75 years worth of German Historical data here. The German new car market is back on the up for the 5th time in the past 6 years with sales up 5% year-on-year to 3.607.258 units, ending the decade…
Could the Toyota Raize top the 2020 charts? Discover over 50 years of Japanese Historical Data here. The Japanese new vehicle market skids down -1.5% year-on-year in 2019 to 5.195.216 units, this annual drop entirely due to a typhoon-induced sales freefall during the last 3 months of the year: -24.2%…
The Rifter helps push Peugeot to #1 in Spain, accounting for 14% of its 2019 volume. Consult over 45 years of Spanish Historical Data here. New car sales in Spain put an end to 6 consecutive years of growth in 2019 at -2.4% to 1.302.963 units, the first year-on-year decline…