The Dacia Logan holds 19% of the Romanian market in April. * See the Top 80 best-selling models and Top 35 All-brands by clicking on the title! * After 4 consecutive months of year-on-year growth including 3 double-digit gains, Romanian new car sales are sadly and worryingly back into negative…
The VW Golf passes the Renault Clio to rank #1 in Slovenia this month. * See the Top 100 best-selling models and Top 33 All-brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Slovenia are up 4% year-on-year in April to 4,876 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to…
Toyota Corolla * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 30 All-brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Ireland are up a very impressive 28% year-on-year in April to 7,863 registrations, meaning the year-to-date total is now up 27% to 57,777 units. In the models…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 36 All-brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Estonia are up 6% year-on-year in April to 2,043 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 6,788 units, up 3% on 2013. For the first time this year,…
The Peugeot 308 II reaches a best-ever 6th place at home this month. * See the Top 80 best-selling models and Top 15 brands by clicking on the title! * The French new car market is lazily letting himself back into positive territory (how's that for a French image?) with…
Seat Ibiza * See the Top 215 best-selling models and Top 47 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Stuck in hell for a few very long years, the Spanish new car market is definitely smelling the roses now: up 28% year-on-year to 80,210 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to…
Dacia sales are up 40% in Belgium in March. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 45 All-brands and Top 320 All-models! Click on title to see * New car sales in Belgium are down 0.5% year-on-year in March to 52,808 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 148,532 units, down 0.4% on…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * 538 new light vehicles found a buyer in Bosnia in March, down 10% year-on-year and bringing the First Quarter total to 1,610 units according to data published by Central European market data specialists www.ceauto.co.hu. For the…
Dacia Duster * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Based on data communicated by Central European market data specialists www.ceauto.co.hu, 404 new cars were sold in the FYR of Macedonia in March, bringing the First Quarter total to 966 units. The Dacia Duster is the…
Yes the valiant Daewoo Matiz is still on sale in some countries... * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * According to Central European market data specialists www.ceauto.co.hu, 482 new cars found a buyer in Moldova in March, adding up to 1,135 units over the First Quarter 2014.…
The Citroen C3 starts the month well at home. * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales are up 3.5% year-on-year in France over the first 9 days of April, and as is the tradition Renault starts weakly (#3 brand)…
TagAz has been manufacturing the Chery Tiggo in Russia - rebranded Vortex Tingo. * This is Part 3 of 5 in my series on Chinese carmakers abroad. See also Part 1 (Africa), Part 2 (Latin America), Part 4 (Asia) and Part 5 (Mature markets) * As illustrated in Africa and Latin America, Chinese manufacturers have been working extra-hard…
Fiat 500 * See the Top 10 best-selling models and Top 30 brands by clicking on the title! * The good news keep pouring in (at last!) for the European new car market: up 10% year-on-year in March to deliver a 7th consecutive month of year-on-year growth at 1,489,796 units.…
Hyundai Accent is the best-selling model in Algeria. * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * The Algerian new car market is definitely going through a tough time in 2014: down 30% year-on-year over the First Quarter to just 85,000 registrations, and this…
Yesterday Renault and its Romanian subsidiary Dacia announced the one millionth Duster produced in its Curitiba, Brazil plant, only 4 years after its original launch. This announcement was made as pictures of a Duster rescuing a Porsche Macan in distress were doing the rounds on the net (see below). A…