Chevrolet Optra Car sales in Venezuela are down 50% in 2009 at 136,517 units. The Chevrolet Aveo is the best selling car in the country for the 5th year in a row at 12,307 sales (9%) but its margin over the #2 is only 77 units this year! The Chevrolet…
Ford Focus * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * In 2009 the Irish market is hit hard by the GFC: it is down 64% on 2008 at only 54,355 registrations. In this context, 27 out of the Top 30 best selling models see their…
Fiat Punto Evo * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Car sales in Italy are stable in 2009 at 2,157,791 units. The Fiat Punto is the best selling model in the country for the 16th year in a row, but God was it hard!…
Ford Fiesta * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Florian * At 1,994,999 registrations (-11%), the British car market goes below the 2m mark for the first time in over a decade. The fall would have been even more significant were it…
Renault Twingo * See the Top 320 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * Boosted by government subsidies and scrappage schemes, the French car market is up 11% in 2009 with 2,268,730 registrations, its best year since 1990! The Peugeot 207 is the best-selling car in…
* Click on the title for the All-models Top 280 and every monthly Top 50! * The Australian market is down 7% in 2009 to 937,328 registrations, and the Holden Commodore is the best selling car in the country for the 14th year in a row, albeit down 13% to…
Suzuki SX4 * See the Top 37 All-brands and Top 10 models by clicking on the title! * At 158.628 registrations in 2008, the Hungarian car market is starting to feel the effects of the economic crisis, down 10.4% on 2007. Suzuki enjoys its 12th consecutive year as the country's…
Skoda Octavia See the Top 10/25/40 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Latvian car market is extremely strong in 2006 at 25,626 registrations and 2007 at 32,497 units but plunges in 2008. The Skoda Octavia is the best-selling model in the country all through the period, selling…
Ford Fusion March 2020 update: Now with Top 56 All-brands and Top 325 All-models. The Czech market is up a healthy 8.4% in 2008 at 143.661 registrations. Homegrown carmaker Skoda (-9.3%) continues to lose share at 31% vs. 37% a year prior. In contrast Ford (+28.6%), Renault (+22.9%), Volkswagen (+27.1%)…
VW Golf * See the Top 80 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * After two years of chaos, the European models ranking is back to stability - albeit rocked by the GFC - with only 2 models sharing the #1 spot throughout the year. The VW Golf is…
Ford Focus March 2020 update: Now with Top 50 All-brands. * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Spanish car market is hit full frontal by the GFC, down 28% and over 450,000 units in 2008 at 1,161,154 registrations. The fight for the top spot…
Toyota Innova The Top 4 best selling cars in Vietnam are unchanged over 2007 and 2008: the Toyota Innova keeps the pole position by far, with record sales numbers: 12,433 units and 15.5% in 2007 and 14,947 units and 13.6% in 2008. The Honda Civic has a stellar two years,…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Mariusz * The Polish market is up 9% in 2008 at 344,270 registrations, and the models podium stay unchanged compared to 2007. The Skoda Fabia leads the way for the 4th consecutive year with 14,717…
Peugeot 207 * See 'Read more' for All models Ranking for each month and year! * For its first full year of sales, the Peugeot 207 brilliantly takes the lead of Dutch car sales in 2007 with 15,537 units and 3.1% share, staying on top in 2008 at 14,778 units…
The Honda Civic is the most popular vehicle in Canada outright for the very first time in 2008. Now with All-brands and All-models rankings instead of a 9 months Top 50 models. The Canadian new light vehicle market resists very well in 2008 at just -0.9% to 1.638.233 units. Fresh…