The 2nd generation Dacia Logan should help it increase its market share in 2013... * See the Top 85 best-selling models and Top 50 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The fall continues for the Romanian new car market: after hitting an all-time high of 343,080 registrations in 2008,…
Mercedes B-Class * NOW UPDATED with the Top 50 All-brands ranking + Top 300 models! See title * There is now a Top 364 All-models ranking available here with splits between Golf/Golf Plus and many others In a gloomy European context, German new car sales have remained very solid in 2012,…
Mini Countryman * See the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 45 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Sales of new imported Passenger Cars are up a very healthy 15% year-on-year to 300,594 registrations in 2012, breaking the 300,000 annual unit-barrier for the first time in 15 years! As it…
VW Up! * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * Every quarter we have access to sales of imported vehicles in Japan, reported by a different organisation, the Japan Automobile Importers Association. Note that from now…
VW Tiguan * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Austrian new car market is down 6% year-on-year in 2012 to 336,010 registrations, and the most popular model in the country this year is familiar: the VW Golf is in the lead for potentially…
Will the Renault Captur be as successful in Switzerland in 2013 as the Subaru XV was in 2012? * Listen to my interview here * * See my previous interviews on World Radio Switzerland by clicking on the title! * Last week I had the honour of being interviewed by…
VW Touran * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 30 brands by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * December new cars sales are down 21% year-on-year in December in Austria to 18,421 registrations, bringing the Full Year 2012 total to 336,010…
Nissan Qashqai * See the Top 10 best-selling models and Top 43 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The UK new car market is the only one in Europe's Top 5 to gain ground year-on-year in 2012, up a shiny 5% to 2,044,609 registrations, the highest annual tally since 2008…
Skoda Yeti * See the Top 130 best-selling models and Top 20 brands by clicking on the title! * * Many thanks to Viktors, Armands, Janis, Martins and Zane from LPAA for sharing the data! * Because of a painful end of year (-21% in November and -25% in December),…
BMW 1 Series * See the Top 308 All-models ranking and Top 50 All-brands by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * Whereas the German new car market had held remarkably well so far this year in a depressed European context, in December it…
Norwegian sales of VW Tiguan are up 46% in 2012 * NOW UPDATED with the Top 277 All-models ranking! Click on title to see, thanks thanks Øystein * Because of a horrendous month of December (-19%), new car sales in Norway finish the year down 0.3% to 137,967 registrations. The VW…
Volvo V70 * NOW UPDATED with the Top 100 best-selling models! Click on title to see, thanks Øystein * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * New car sales in Norway are down a painful 19% year-on-year in December to 9,369 registrations, bringing the Full Year 2012 total into negative…
BMW 3 Series * NOW UPDATED with actuals for the Top 20 best-selling models! Many thanks to Rolf * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * New car sales in Finland are down 6% year-on-year in December to 6,375 registrations, bringing the Full Year 2012 total to 109,856 units,…
Toyota Avensis * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 44 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The Estonian new car market is up 14% year-on-year in 2012 to 19,408 registrations, and this year the pole position changes hands: the Toyota Avensis is up a fantastic 39% on 2011…
Opel Astra * See the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 40 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The Croatian new car market is down an alarming 25% in 2012 to 31,360 registrations, to be compared with 88,265 in 2008, with December down 48%... Passed by the Skoda Octavia in…