Buick Regal - Buick sales are up 111% year-on-year in September. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 254 models, Top 34 brands and Top 15 groups! * New light vehicle sales are up another very impressive 13% year-on-year in September to a record 168,090 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to…
GMC Sierra. General Motors sales are up 19% year-on-year in September. * See the Top 40 best-selling brands by clicking on the title! * The US new light vehicle market shoots up a very satisfying 9% year-on-year in September to 1.246.006 registrations, meaning the year-to-date total is now up 5.5%…
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.…
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,…
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…
Kia Sportage This is Part 24 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Report here. After taking you on a visit of the Chaoyang car market in Beijing, I thought I would share with you a selection of the car brochures I got my…
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…
Chevrolet is estimated to have allocated half of its initial national supply of 2014 trucks to Texas! * See the Full article by clicking on the title! * After California, New York and Colorado, today we continue our exploration of specific US markets as we travel to Texas, which I just discovered is…
2014 Chevrolet Impala * See the full article by clicking on the title! * General Motors expert at Automotive News Mike Colias recently wrote an interesting article about sales of the Chevrolet Impala in 2013 which I thought I would mention here because this is an interesting 'profit over volume'…
The Ford F-Series lodges its best month since August 2007... * NOW UPDATED with the Top 263 All-models ranking! Click on title to see! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * As predicted 2 weeks ago, the US new car market is up 9% year-on-year in December to…