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…
Toyota holds 39.7% of the Filipino car market this month. * See the Top 20 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! Thanks Myk * New car sales in the Philippines continue on their impressive and continuous growth in March: up 22% year-on-year to 22,181 registrations which brings the First…
Only commercialised in a handful of countries, the Ford F-Series is #3 worldwide in 2013. * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * As an appetiser for the full Top 1000 models that will be published shortly, I now give you temporary figures for the…
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…
Chana Taurustar, Chana Star & Wuling Hongguang in Chongqing – April 2014 * See the Top 30 best-selling vehicles (PC and LCV) by clicking on the title! * Now that the Top 10 most popular Light Commercial Vehicles in China are known, I can give you the Top 30 best-selling…
Chongqing street scene (Click on any picture to enlarge) Now that you know the secrets of Beijing hutongs and the most impressive Chinese carmakers at the Beijing Auto Show, we go on a bit of adventure inside China. First stop is Chongqing, one of the fastest-growing cities on earth, 1.500km…
The new sedan enabled the Toyota Corolla to keep its worldwide crown in 2013. As it has been the case for almost two years now, Toyota and Ford are at odds when it comes to declaring which is the best-selling car in the world. Ford quotes Polk saying the Ford…
The Renault Mégane is #1 in Portugal this month. * See the Top 207 All-models and Top 35 All-brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Portugal are up a spectacular 47% year-on-year in March to 14,150 registrations, bringing the First Quarter total to 33,955 units, up…
Renault Symbol * See the Top 260 All-models & Top 44 All-brands by clicking on the title! Thanks to Yarım Debriyaj * The Turkish new light vehicle market is down a harsh 31% year-on-year in March to just 47,581 registrations, bringing the First Quarter total to 115,272 units, down 24% on 2013. Brand-wise,…
Skoda Octavia in Bourke, NSW Australia This Part 2 of my Photo Report on the Australian Outback, you can check Part 1 here. Now that we've described how utes are extremely well represented in Outback Australia, let's weigh the pros and cons of the AU$34,690 1.8l TSI Skoda Octavia Elegance…
Road Train vs. Skoda Octavia… Who wins? I have been mentioning the new generation Skoda Octavia on BestSellingCarsBlog a lot in the past 6 months as it progressively climbed the European rankings to reach an all-time high 5th place in October and November 2013, ranking inside the Top 10 for 5…
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.…
The Range Rover is at a very impressive #9 in Cyprus so far in 2014... * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Thanks to data provided by SEMO Cyprus and Analysis by INNOSOFT, I can share with you today a detailed models ranking for Cyprus…
Haval H6 Sport * See the Top 67 All-brands and Top 334 All-models by clicking on the title! * As is the tradition on BSCB, after looking into March data in detail we now go on to study the year-to-date rankings to extract some longer-term trends. The Chinese Passenger Car…
Fiat Ottimo * See the Top 304 best-selling models and Top 63 brands by clicking on the title! * New Passenger Car sales in China are up 8% year-on-year in March to 1.6 million units. In the models ranking, the Wuling Hongguang is testing new territories, up 28% on March…