The Taos helps Volkswagen up 59% in September. 2025 model pictured. According to local consultancy DesRosiers Automotive, the Canadian new light vehicle market is off -3.6% year-on-year in September to an estimated 157,000 units. Keep in mind September 2024 had 3 less selling days than September 2023. The SAAR stands…
Chevrolet Trax sales are up 56.6% over Q3. According to Cox Automotive, the U.S. new light vehicle market drops -12.8% year-on-year in September to 1.17 million units. This is partly because of fewer selling days 23 against 26 in September 2023. The SAAR stands at 15.8 million, identical to September…
Chevrolet Trax sales are up 152.7% over Q2. US new light vehicle sales drop -3% year-on-year in June to 1,344,000 units, with passenger cars down -7.3% to 269,000 and light trucks off -1.9% to 1,075,000 sales. Q2 volumes edge up 0.2% to 4.11 million units while H1 sales perk up…
Volkswagen Taos sales are up 251.4% year-on-year. According to local consultancy DesRosiers Automotive, the Canadian new light vehicle market is stable in June at 169,000 units, with a SAAR of 1.72 million. This remains far below the 200,000+ units of 2017 and 2018. Note sales have been negatively impacted by…
Toyota RAV4 sales are up 47.4% year-on-year in Q1. New light vehicle sales in the US edge up 5.1% in March to an estimated 1,455,000 units. Passenger cars are stable at 294,000 sales and 20.2% share while light trucks (pickups+SUVs) climb 6.5% to 1,161,000 and 79.8% share. The Seasonally Adjusted…
The Toyota RAV4 misses out on the 2nd spot overall for just 569 sales. Discover 40 years of Canadian Historical Data here. The new light vehicle market in Canada is up a robust 12.8% year-on-year in 2023 to 1,708,906 unifts after a nightmarish 2022 result which was the lowest in 13…
The Ford F-Series has been #1 in the U.S. since 1982. Discover 115 years of U.S. Historical Data here. The U.S. new light vehicle market recovers faster than expected in 2023 at +12.3% to 15,608,386 units. This is significantly higher than the 14.8 million predicted by analysts at the start…
Nissan sales are up 36.8% year-on-year over Q3. According to estimates by local consultancy DesRosiers Automotive, the Canadian new light vehicle market is up 19% year-on-year in September to 155,259 units, with a year-ago volume particularly weak as it was the lowest September result since 2009. The SAAR is up…
Honda Civic sales are up 103.9% year-on-year in September. As stock issues get resolved, the US new car market soars 16.7% year-on-year over Q3 to 3,982,140 units. Year-to-date, the volume is up 14.2% or 1.45 million units to 11,693,202. In the groups ranking, General Motors (+21.2%) beats the market to almost…
21,544 Ram Pickups found a new Canadian home in June. According to local consultancy DesRosiers Automotive, the Canadian new light vehicle market is estimated to climb 12.6% year-on-year in June to 161,901 units. To damper this performance, remember June 2022 was the lowest volume for the month since 2009. The…
Ford F-Series sales are up 27.9% over the period. 7.695 million new light vehicles found a buyer in the US over the First Half of 2023, that's a 12.5% improvement on a H1 2022 score which was down -18.2% on the year prior. General Motors (+18.5%) scores an excellent result…
The Nissan Rogue is back inside the US Top 10. US new light vehicle sales over Q2 2023 jump +16.9% year-on-year to 4.11 million units. In the groups ranking, General Motors (+19.1%) flies off to just under 690,000 sales, distancing Toyota Motor (+7.1%) and Ford Motor (+9.9%) both trailing the…
GM sales soar 17.7% year-on-year over Q1. U.S. new light vehicle sales are estimated at 1.3 million in March by Wards Intelligence, a shy 6.6% year-on-year increase, keeping in mind March 2022 plummeted down -23.8% over the year prior. The Seasonally Adjusted Annualised Rate of sales (SAAR) stands at 14.4 million,…
Sales of Toyota RAV4 surge ahead over Q1. Local consultancy DesRosiers Automotive has the Canadian market up just 3.7% year-o-year in March to an estimated 146,000 units. This is a paltry result considering March 2022 was off -19.8% on the year prior. The Q1 2023 tally is up 5.2% to…
The Toyota Corolla ends 24 years of domination by the Honda Civic in the car charts. Discover close to 40 years of Canadian Historical Data here. New light vehicle sales in Canada are hit -8.9% year-on-year in 2022 to just 1,514,465 units as the microchip crisis and associated stock woes…