The Baojun 730 sells 12,006 units for its first month in market. * See the Top 320 all-local models and Top 64 brands by clicking on the title! * It's always fascinating to me that when Chinese new light vehicles improve by 9% year-on-year like this month in August, most analysts…
The Chevrolet Silverado is back into positive territory year-to-date. * See the Top 273 best-selling models and Top 40 brands by clicking on the title! * After exploring the monthly US ranking, as is the tradition on BSCB we now study the year-to-date ranking to try and extract longer-term trends.…
The Honda Accord hits its highest-ever monthly volume in the US this month. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 261 All-models and Top 38 brands! See title * U.S. light vehicle sales, led by double-digit increases at Chrysler Group and Nissan Motor Corp, remained robust in August, helped by Labor Day…
The Mitsubishi Montero Sport holds 9% of the Venezuelan market in August. * See the Top 30 best-selling models and Top 8 brands by clicking on the title! * Another depressing month for new car sales in Venezuela, down 80% year-on-year to 1,681 registrations which brings the year-to-date total to 11,502…
General Motors crashed Chevrolet down in Europe. A good thing? On paper yes, in practice no. In December 2013, General Motors announced it would kill the Chevrolet brand in Europe to concentrate on ailing Opel and its UK sister brand Vauxhall. A reshuffling of priorities that made sense given Opel racked up…
The Toyota RAV4 delivers its highest ever monthly volume in the US in July. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 260 models, Top 40 brands & Top 15 groups! * The US light vehicle market delivers another very solid month in July: up 9% year-on-year to 1.435 million vehicles, which…
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.…