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…
Hyundai Verna in Ürümqi (click on any picture to enlarge) This is Part 2 of my Ürümqi Photo Report, you can check out Part 1 about the surprising strength of budget Chinese brands here. Yesterday I reported on how the Shanghai Englon SC7, SC3 and SC6, Dongfeng Fengshen S30 and H30 Cross…
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…
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)…
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…
Datsun Go * See the Top 60 best-selling models and Top 14 brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in India are down 5% year-on-year in March to 232,423 registrations (ex-Commercial Vehicles), bringing the First Quarter total to 660,328 units, down 4% on 2013. We have been…
Dacia Dokker * See the Top 80 best-selling models and Top 35 brands by clicking on the title! * Now we're talking. Romanian new car sales are up a mammoth 38% year-on-year in March to 4,577 registrations, that's the 4th consecutive month of year-on-year gain and the third double-digit gain…
The Mitsubishi Outlander is now among Russia's Top 10 most popular vehicles. * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 57 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Has the Russian new car market finally reached a plateau? In March, after losing ground for 11 of the last 12…
At +75% the Citroen C4 Picasso delivers the biggest year-on-year gain in the Top 50 this month. * See the Top 343 All-models & Top 58 brands by clicking on the title! * After exploring the Top 10 models and Top 30 brands for February, a couple of weeks of wait…
The Datsun Go starts at US$5,340. Only in India is such low pricing possible at the moment. Staying in India for a couple of days has enabled me to get a much better understanding of the Indian new car market and its dynamics which have very unique characteristics. In fact,…
Isuzu D-Max * See the Top 30 models and Top 32 brands by clicking on the title! Thanks Stéphane * * See the overall France March 2014 update here * Finally! The New Caledonian new car market is in positive in March, something that had not happened in at least…
Argentina is now the country in the world where the Toyota Etios has ranked the highest. * See the Top 196 All-models and Top 30 brands by clicking on the title! * In January, Argentinean car dealers announced that the combined effect of a tax hike on imported models and…
Dacia Duster * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Zsolt * New car sales in Hungary are up a splendid 22% year-on-year in March to 6,208 registrations, bringing the 1st Quarter total to 15,633 units, up 24% on 2013. The Skoda Octavia continues to…
Chevrolet Sail * See the Top 12 best-selling models and Top 52 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The new car market in Ecuador is surprisingly down for the 2nd year in a row in 2013 at -6% to 113,812 registrations, among Latin American countries breaking annual record after…