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…
Nissan Qashqai * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 30 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The Irish new car market is up a whopping 34% year-on-year in March to 14,356 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 49,960 units, up an equally impressive 27% on 2013. Now…
Peugeot 308 * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * Would the French new car market finally see the light at the end of a stagnation tunnel? Sales are up a very healthy 11% year-on-year over the first 19 days of March and…
The GAZ Gazelle tops the Kazakh models ranking this month. * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Irina * Building on a record year in 2013, the Kazakh new car market is up a further 22% in February to 10,863 registrations, bringing the year-to-date…