Toyota Hilux Like in neighbour Australia, passenger car sales in New Zealand are hit by stock shortages due to the Japan earthquake and are down 2% at 4,535 units. Conversely, light commercials are up 13% at 2,028, helped by a strong sales push surrounding Fieldays, the 'largest agricultural event in the…
Chevrolet Classic * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at the end of the post! * Nineteenth consecutive month of growth for Argentinean car sales at 66,908 units in May, up a massive 32%. The year-to-date figure stands at 362,180, up 29%. We return to…
Fiat Linea Turkish car sales continue to deliver outrageous growth numbers month after month: +47% in April at 53,835 units and up 70% year-to-date at 176,730. The Renault Symbol is the best-selling car in Turkey again with 3,571 sales and 6.4% share, but it nearly got kicked out by the…
BMW X3 The South African car market is up 6% this month at 41,555 registrations, bringing the year-to-date figure to 227,806, up 16%. Compared to April, the podium is unchanged: the Toyota Hilux is still ahead with 2,558 sales (6.2%) however it only sells...11 units more than the #2, the…
Fiat Panda The Italian car market is back in positive this month at +3% year-on-year and 171,077 units but is still down 15% year-to-date at 846,988. The Fiat Panda is #1 again with 12,065 sales and 7.1%. It is the 12th time this generation of Panda leads Italian sales, all…
Ford Focus The Irish car market stays very solid this month, up 9% year-on-year at 9,380 units and 12% year-to-date at 66,1089 registrations. The Ford Focus reacquaints itself with a familiar situation: the domination of Ireland car sales. At 8.8% share and 823 sales, the Focus is a distant #1…
Seat Ibiza * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at the end of the post! * The Spanish car market is down again this month at -23% year-on-year with 78,870 registrations, adding up to 358,830 units year-to-date (-26%). The Seat Ibiza delivers its strongest market…
Ford Focus Finnish new car sales are up 22% in May at 12,831 registrations, bringing the year-to-date figure to 59,427 units, up 20%. The VW Golf keeps the pole position and takes its distance with the Skoda Octavia this month at 645 sales and 5% share vs. 512 and 4%.…
The Chevrolet Malibu is the #1 passenger car in May. The new model (above) arrives in 2012. * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at the end of the post! * This month, the effects on Japanese manufacturers of parts and production shortages resulting from…
VW Passat The Swedes bought 30,853 new cars in May, an impressive 23% increase year-on-year. The year-to-date figure stands at 129,557 units, up 18%. The Volvo V70 stays on top at 2,110 sales and 6.8%, but the VW Passat, boosted by the new generation, is getting closer this month with…
Suzuki Swift * Now with the Top 10 best-selling Passenger Cars: click on 'Read more' at end of post * Car sales are down 1% this month in New Zealand at 5,610 registrations. For the second time in 2011 the Suzuki Swift takes the leadership in the models ranking, certainly…
Fiat 500 Canadian car sales are up a healthy 7% in April at 159,942 registrations. The Ford F-Series is on top again with 8,858 sales and 5.5% share. Now counted together, the twins Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra are close behind, landing in 2nd place with 8,479 sales and 5.3%.…
Proton Saga Malaysian consumers bought 49,065 new cars this month, bringing the year-to-date total to 202,773 registrations, up 7%. For the first time this year, the Proton Saga takes the lead of the ranking with 6,520 sales and a strong 13.3% market share. The Perodua Myvi keeps the 2011 pole…
VW Gol Trend * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' below * The Argentinean car market is up for the 18th time in a row in April at +27% with 64,639 registrations. The year-to-date figure is up an impressive 28% at 295,272 units. Cumulative ACARA…
Dacia Duster Thanks to Yves Levy from Noumea, I am now able to share with you the models ranking in New Caledonia... Many thanks Yves! New Caledonia is not a country as such, it is an overseas French territory in Oceania. However the best selling cars are so radically different from…