The Austin Mini ranked within the UK Top 10 up until 1981 The direct links to 43 UK Historical Data posts are below. You can also check the UK nameplates records here Thanks to Chris, author of the book "British Leyland: Chronicle of a car crash", I can now share with…
VW Golf * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Rutger * Today Macedonia becomes a little less unloved, with the first models ranking since 2007, albeit dating back to January-February 2011. The Macedonian new car market is down 23% year-on-year in January…
VW Up! * See Japan's best-selling imports by clicking on the title! * Volkswagen released its new Up! in Japan on October 1. Three weeks on, orders for the mini car have just reached 3,000. The Nikkei thinks the Up! “may beat the Golf to become the German automaker’s most successful…
The Ford Cortina was #2 in Norway in 1963 and from 1965 to 1969 The direct links to 41 Norway Historical Data articles are below Detailed Historical Data for Norway covering the past 65 years is now available. There is now a Top 10 models ranking for each and every…
The VW Golf III sold 43,838 units in March 1993 in Germany alone, a record. * See the direct links to these 8 Historical Data posts by clicking on the title! * Looking to buy a new car? Find out about budget car insurance here. Thanks to STAC and a thorough…
1974 VW Golf. Picture by Lothar Spurzem. The best-selling models from 1970 to 2022 are below. We now have more detail about the best-selling models in Switzerland since 1970. For 1993, 1994 and 1996 I now have a Full Top 50 models ranking. For the seventies, eighties and nineties there is…
The Wuling Hongguang sold a record 28,327 units in September * See the Top 5 best-selling LCVs and Top 10 best-sellers overall by clicking on the title! * 395,096 new Light Commercial Vehicles were sold in China in September, down 6% year-on-year and bringing the year-to-date total to 3,656,880 units,…
Ford Focus * Click on the title to see the full article! * With most September data now in, it’s time for our much anticipated monthly rendezvous: the World roundup, now in its 7th instalment. Last month the Subaru XV made the headlines by toppling the VW Golf in Switzerland. In…
BMW 1 Series * See the Top 20 best-selling brands by clicking on the title! * Still no models info available for Luxembourg (if you have any please get in touch!) but the brands ranking in September is eventful enough to warrant an update here. The new car market in…
Skoda Octavia * See the most recent BSCB articles on Switzerland by clicking on the title! * On Wednesday I had the pleasure of being interviewed for the 2nd time by Alex Helmick from World Radio Switzerland about the September car sales results in Switzerland. After ranking #3 in August, the…
Hyundai i30 SR * See the full article and the Top 20 best-selling brands by clicking on the title! * This is part 2 of my special report on the Sydney Motor Show, you can see Part 1 here. We talked about Toyota, Holden, Mazda and Ford already. The only…
Toyota Yaris * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * This is it. With 4 of the Top 5 European markets in significant decline in September (Germany -11%, France -18%, Italy -26% and Spain -40%), the overall new car market in Europe is now officially…
The launch of the new generation in China has pushed the Hyundai Elantra up to #6 worldwide * See the Top 170 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * As is now the tradition on BSCB, after exploring the Top 150 most popular cars around the globe for August…
Nissan Juke. Picture by Ciprian Mihai, all rights reserved. * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * For the first time in 2012, the Latvian new car market is down year-on-year in September at 744 registrations (-20%), bringing the year-to-date total to 7,995 units, up…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 75 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Swiss new car market is down a harsh 18% in September to 21,166 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 245,526 units, still up 5% on 2011. After the Subaru XV wrote history in August…