The Nissan Tsuru is up 41% year-on-year this month! * See the Top 10 best-selling models and Top 30 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Shock, horror: for only the second time this year and the third time in the last 43 months, the Mexican new market is actually…
Ford Ecosport * See the Top 80 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The current strike at the seven major vehicle manufacturing plants in South Africa has only slightly impacted new car sales in South Africa down 1.5% year-on-year in September to 54,281 sales but still up 5%…
Honda Airwave This is Part 8 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are now moving 855km East to Irkutsk, which is 80 km off Lake Baikal. And here again a fascinating car landscape awaits… From roughly 30% of…
VW Gol Trend * See the Top 207 All-models and Top 35 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Great news coming from Argentina: new car sales in the country are up a fantastic 28% year-on-year to 82,339 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to a record 752,724 units, up 11%…
The BMW 5 Series is #1 in Ireland for the 2nd month in a row. Strange? Yep. * 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 sleek 27% year-on-year in September to a still…
GAZ logo This is Part 6 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are moving 940km North East of Omsk to… Tomsk (hard to not confuse the two but I will do my best). And I am happy to…
Audi A3 * See the Full article by clicking on the title! * Once again I ask: what better way to finish one month and start a new one than going through our traditional World Roundup? I don't think there is any! Before we start, don't forget to catch the…
The Toyota Probox is the most popular used Japanese import in Omsk. This is Part 5 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this Long Term Photo Report here. We are now travelling almost 1000 km South East of Yekaterinburg to Omsk, the start of…
Hyundai i30 and Australian Toyota Corolla hatchback * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Now that we have explored in detail the July worldwide sales charts, it's time to go through the year-to-date rankings to extract longer-term trends. The fight for the title of…
The Opel Astra is extremely popular in Yekaterinburg. This is part 4 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are now travelling a further 940 km East to Yekaterinburg, where the car landscape is once again very different from the…
Lada Samara in Kazan, Tatarstan Russia - September 2013 This is part 3 of a Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are now off to Kazan, 800 km East of Moscow in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. Now that Russia’s…
The Peugeot 508 is #7 in Franche-Comté where Peugeot has its main manufacturing plant. * See the Top 20 best-selling models in 22 French regions by clicking on the title! * See a map of all French regions here From the goldmine of data I found at the CCFA in Paris,…
Lada Niva * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Thanks to Central European market data specialists www.ceauto.co.hu, I can share with you the latest sales figures for Moldova. Over the first 8 months of the year, 2,413 passenger cars found a buyer in the country.…
Nearly one in 3 new cars sold in Romania this month is a Dacia Logan... * See the Top 75 best-selling models and Top 35 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Some good news coming from Romania: in August the new car market is up 25% year-on-year to 6,319 registrations,…
VW Caddy * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Latvian new car market is down a harsh 15% year-on-year in August to 911 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 8,109 units, down 7% on 2012. Sales charts in Latvia are traditionally very volatile…