The Kia Seltos breaks its NZ ranking record at #4 overall. The New Zealand new vehicle market slides down -6% year-on-year in January to 13.078 registrations, but SUV sales soar 7.8% to 6.522 and light commercials (mainly pickups) edge up 1.2% to 3.481. Passenger cars are indeed solely responsible for…
The new T-Cross helps Volkswagen outpace the European market at +1.7%. Discover 50 years of European Historical Data here. 19/02 update: Now with Top 55 brands, Top 415 models and Top 10 electrified models. According to data shared with you by our European partner JATO Dynamics, new car sales in…
The Tesla Model 3 is up to #3 in Europe, Dutch sales accounting for 54.5%. 19/02 update: Now with Top 55 brands and Top 345 models. 30/01 update: Now with Top 100 models. ACEA has December European sales up 21.4% to 1.261.742 and JATO Dynamics who takes into account two…
The Toyota Land Cruiser 70 holds 23.3% of the PNG market in 2019. Discover 6 years of Papua New Guinea Historical Data here. The Papua New Guinea (PNG) new car market bounces back in 2019, up 9.8% to 5.346, however still far from the high of 8.305 registered in 2014. Toyota…
Toyota Land Cruiser 70 sales shoot up 44% in Samoa in 2019. Discover 6 years of Samoa Historical Data here. Samoa corresponds to the western part of the Samoan Islands, the Eastern part being American Samoa. It is home to 195.843 inhabitants, with the two main islands being Upolu – hosting…
The Toyota Tacoma remains the best-selling vehicle in American Samoa. Discover 6 years of American Samoa Historical Data here. Not to be confused with Samoa covered in separate updates, American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific. It consists of five main islands and two…
The Toyota Land Cruiser is the best-selling vehicle in the GCC. Discover 15 years of Gulf Cooperation Council Historical Data here. The Gulf Cooperation Council is an economic union including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. In 2019 and on the sole strength of Saudi…
The Hyundai Venue tops recent launches in January. Picture Caranddriver. Replicating the US situation we just covered, the monthly reporting stampede which started with GM in late 2018 has also spread to Canada with all manufacturers that stopped monthly US reporting bar Nissan/Mitsubishi now doing the same for Canada, leaving…
The arrival of female drivers has boosted the Saudi car market in 2019. Discover 30 years of Saudi Arabia Historical Data here. After three consecutive 20%+ annual drops (-21.4% in 2016, -22.3% in 2017 and -23.4% in 2018) resulting in a halving of the market between 2015 (879.704) and 2018 (411.223), the…
The Toyota Land Cruiser is #1 in the UAE for the 2nd time this decade. Discover 15 years of United Arab Emirates Historical Data here. After three straight years of double-digit falls, the United Arab Emirates new light vehicle market stabilises in 2019 with a much more palatable -1.5% decline…
167 Porsche Taycan found a new German home in January. 13/02 update: Now with Top 50 private sales models. New car sales in Germany skid down -7.3% year-on-year in January to 246.300 units, with business fleet sales (-5.1%) resisting better than the market at 168.469 and a whopping 68.4% share…
The previous generation VW Polo remains in production in South Africa, sold under the Polo Vivo name. The South African new vehicle market edges down -5% year-on-year in January to 40.259 registrations. Toyota (-26.8%) is hit very hard this month but nevertheless manages to hold onto the manufacturers top spot…
The VW Touareg breaks into the Romanian Top 10. Picture eblogauto.ro The Romanian new car market skids down -10.5% year-on-year in January to 12.489 units. Homegrown leader Dacia (-32.2%) pays the price of an unusually high score a year ago in January 2019 and falls to 28.6% share vs. 31.1%…
Kia remains #1 in Iraq and the Telluride is the best-selling 2019 launch. Picture yallamotor.com Discover a decade worth of Iraqi Historical Data here. Contrasting with most surrounding Middle Eastern markets, Iraq is firmly on the mend after years of war, sporting a third consecutive double-digit annual gain in 2019…
The Toyota Land Cruiser is the #1 vehicle in Kuwait in 2019. Discover over 15 years of Kuwait Historical Data here. New vehicle sales in Kuwait bounce back up 9.7% to 109.605 units. Toyota (+15.5%) outpaces the market's growth to hit 32.3% share, as does Nissan (+10.7%) to 10.9%. Chevrolet…