The new hatch lifts Toyota Corolla sales up 103%. According to our partner JATO Dynamics, new car sales in Latvia soar 15.4% year-on-year in March to 1.618 units, lifting the Q1 volume up 6.6% to 4.461. The top best-sellers all post spectacular gains: the VW Golf (+42.2%), Toyota RAV4 (+49.2%),…
The Dacia Duster climbs on the Italian podium for the very first time. In April, new car sales in Italy register their third year-on-year gain in the past 12 months after last July and December at a shy +1.2% to 174.940 units, yet the year-to-date volume remains firmly set in…
The Seat Leon is by far the most popular vehicle in Spain in April. Spanish new car sales cut short a painful streak of 7 consecutive months of declines in April with a sturdy +5.9% year-on-year uptick to 123.833 units, the largest result for the month since 2006 (129.468). The…
The Jetta unveiling at the Shanghai Auto Show 2019. After announcing its creation in February, Volkswagen presented its new entry-level China-exclusive brand Jetta for the first time to the public at the Shanghai Auto Show two weeks ago. The strategy used by the Volkswagen Group is similar to that of the…
The VW Caddy shoots up to #2 in Bosnia in March. According to our Central European market data partner CE Auto, new light vehicle sales drop -7.8% year-on-year in March to 888 units, meaning the Q1 tally is now down -10.4% to 2.322. The Skoda Octavia (-12.3%) easily remains on top…
The Dacia Duster takes the lead both in March and YTD in Moldova. Thanks to our partnership with Eastern European data specialist CE Auto, we can share with you today March sales for Moldova, a market down -14.9% year-on-year to 486 units, leading to a Q1 volume edging up 1.3%…
Renault is the #1 brand in 54 French departments in 2018. For the first time in the history of BSCB we can share with you the Top 20 best-selling brands in France by department, for all 100 of them, over the Full Year 2018 but also 2017 for comparison. This…
Skoda Fabia in Perast, Montenegro One of the 10 Eastern European countries we visited in 10 days in a Dacia Logan last year was Montenegro, population 678.000. There hasn't been any official data for this market since 2014, so I will draw on my observations on the touristic Adriatic coast in…
The Dacia Sandero is estimated to be the best-selling vehicle in Andorra in 2018. My recent Peugeot 3008 test drive took me to the Principality of Andorra between France and Spain and it was a great opportunity to estimate the best-sellers in one of the tiniest countries in Europe. Quite…
The Mitsubishi Outlander is the most popular vehicle with Icelandic private buyers in 2018. Consult over 15 years of Iceland Historica Data here. This article has been updated with the Top 100 models. Iceland is back on BSCB after a two-year hiatus, but the market suffers a harsh drop in…
Volkswagen sales shoot up 35.5% year-on-year in Guadeloupe. New passenger car sales in Guadeloupe, a French overseas archipelago located in the Caribbean Sea home to 398,000 inhabitants step up 5.6% year-on-year in 2018 to 17.620. Peugeot (+3%) remains comfortably in the lead with 16.6% share while Renault (-1.8%) skids down to…
Citroen posts the largest gain in the Martinique Top 6 in 2018. New car sales in Martinique, a French overseas island located in the Caribbean Sea home to 380,000 inhabitants, gain 5.8% year-on-year in 2018 to 15.700 units (our 2017 article featured sales including light commercials). Peugeot (+10.8%) frankly outpace the…
Hyundai breaks into the Top 5 brands in French Guiana. For only the second time on BSCB, we can share with you official sales data for French Guiana (simply Guyane in French), a French overseas territory located on the Atlantic Ocean coast in South America, west of Brazil (see map…
One in five passenger cars sold in Mayotte in 2018 is a Dacia. Today we add a new market on BSCB! New car sales in Mayotte, an overseas French territory located North of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean and home of 256,000 inhabitants, are up a strong +8.9% to 1.412 units. The…
The Renault Clio now outsells its archenemy the Peugeot 208 in Reunion. This article has been updated with the Top 20 brands. The new light vehicle market is up a sturdy 5.9% to 28.189 passenger cars, up 4.2% to 32.349 including light commercials in the Réunion Island, an overseas French territory…