Can Volkswagen overtake Toyota to become the world's biggest manufacturer in 2014? * See the Full article by clicking on the title! * Volkswagen Group is closing in on Toyota as the global leader in vehicle sales, with a rapid expansion drive in China while Toyota curbs growth to focus…
Hyundai Sonata sales are up 30% in June thanks to the new model. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 260 models, Top 38 brands & Top 15 groups! * After a fantastic month of May, most analysts had predicted the US new light vehicle market to decline year-on-year in June. Nope.…
Nissan Versa * See the Top 10 best-selling models and Top 30 brands by clicking on the title! * In June the Mexican new car market is up a shy 0.5% year-on-year to 84,127 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to just above half a million units at 500,360, down 0.3%…
Hyundai Genesis - Hyundai delivers its biggest monthly volume since the brand landed in the US in February 1986. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 258 models, Top 38 brands & Top 15 groups! * May light vehicle sales in the US are up a massive 11% to 1.608.693 registrations,…
Mazda bucks the trend at +64%... * NOW UPDATED with the Top 188 best-selling models! Thanks Roberto * In April, only 6,545 new light vehicles were sold in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), down 14.5% on April 2013. It is the sharpest year-on-year decline since BSCB started…
Toyota Tundra. Global Toyota sales are up 6% year-on-year so far in 2014. Toyota announced yesterday they sold 2.583 million vehicles worldwide over the First Quarter of 2014, enabling the Group to keep the world leadership for the third Quarter in a row. General Motors comes second with 2.42 million…
Is it the end of explosive growth in China? Not so fast... Before going through March brands and models detailed data in the next couple of days, a little taste of things to come in China: according to the state- backed China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, sales of Passenger Cars in…
The new generation Corolla helped Toyota keeps its worldwide crown in 2013. * See the Top 20 best-selling manufacturers by clicking on the title! * In 2013, 84.1 million new vehicles found a buyer worldwide which is a new all-time record, up 5% on 2012 and actually the 4th consecutive record-breaking…
Mitsubishi Montero Sport * See the Top 10 models and Top 9 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The Venezuelan new car market shockingly comes to a screeching halt in January: down a devastating 87% year-on-year to just 722 registrations. Only 9 carmakers manage to actually sell cars (vs.…
GM Holden Chairman Mike Devereux: "Building cars in Australia is just not sustainable" Mike Devereux, Chairman of General Motors' Australian subsidiary, Holden, has just announced 30 minutes ago in a press conference live on Australian Television that Holden will cease to manufacture cars locally in 2017, almost seven decades after…
The Jeep Cherokee sold over 10,000 units for its first full month in market. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 256 All-models and Top 38 All-brands! Click on title to see * If going through European car sales updates depresses you, I have one cure: follow the US market! It's another…
Volvo V40 * See the Full article by clicking on the title! * Email matt@bestsellingcarsblog.com for an in-depth analysis of the markets mentioned here. What better way to finish one month and start a new one than going through our traditional World Roundup? None, I know. Before we start, may I interest you in…
The new generation Corolla could help Toyota retain its worldwide crown in 2013... * See the Full article by clicking on the title! * Over the first half of 2013, Toyota just announced it sold 4.911 million vehicles worldwide, down 1.1% year on year but enough to keep the Japanese…
The Chevrolet Cruze sold a record 32,871 units in the US in June. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 260 All-models/Top 37 All-brands! Click on title to see * Even the sunniest predictions for US June car sales were obliterated, with the market up 9% to 1.4 million registrations which brings…
The Chevrolet Spin is the first GM vehicle to really fit Indonesians' tastes. * See the Full article by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Eddy * Can GM challenge a quasi-monopoly by Japanese manufacturers in fast-growing Indonesia? If you are a regular BSCB reader, you will know that Indonesia…