Renault Megane * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Europe are slowly sliding into recession, at -8% year-on-year in May to 1,164,071 registrations, with the UK the only market in the 'Big 5' to register year-on-year improvement. The 2012 year-to-date…
VW Polo. Picture by Captain Andrey. * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * After Brazil and France, Iceland is the third country on Best Selling Cars Blog for which I am now able to share with you an intermediate ranking at mid-month. In fact,…
Ford Focus * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Austin * After an exhaustive April 2012 world round-up, I am now able to share with you the 20 models that sold the most across the globe in April. The Toyota Corolla is…
Great Wall Steed - Bulgarians have embraced Great Wall's vehicles * See the Top 50 best-selling brands by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Kalo * 2012 will stay in the history of automobile as the year the Chinese started manufacturing cars in Europe. The Great Wall factory opened in…
Chevrolet Sail * See the Top 264 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Reshuffle atop the Chinese models ranking in May: for the first time ever, the Chevrolet Sail is the best-selling model in the country with 30,163 sales, 27,579 of which are the sedan version. This pole…
VW Tiguan * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * 29,441 new cars were sold in Switzerland in May, bringing the year-to-date total to 137,405. The usual suspects top the models ranking: the VW Golf sells 940 units for a 3.2% market share while the…
Hyundai i30 * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Austria are down 6% year-on-year in May to 32,398 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 153,890 units, down just 1% on 2011. The VW Golf is #1 for the 27th month…
Hyundai i30 * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Slovakia are down 9% year-on-year in May to 5,948 registrations, brining the year-to-date total to 28,340 units, up 2% on 2011. As usual the Skoda Octavia and Fabia dominate sales, respectively…
Mercedes B-Class * See the Top 300 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Steam * In May the German new car market is down 5% year-on-year to 289,977 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 1,337,679 units, up just 0.3% on 2011. The VW Golf predictably holds…
Peugeot 208 * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * There is a lot at stake this month for French car sales as June is traditionally one of the strongest months of the year. But it hasn't started well: over the first 5…
Vauxhall Corsa * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * While most European countries are slowly but surely falling back into recession, UK car sales have a euphoric month of May, up 8% year-on-year to 162,288 registrations with private sales up 14%. This is the…
Toyota Camry * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Taiwan are up a massive 28% year-on-year in May to 31,213 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 155,620 units, down just 0.8% on 2011. The Toyota Corolla has now been in…
Fiat Linea * See the Top 25 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Turkish new car sales continue at a much lower level than 2012, down 15% year-on-year in April to 45,645 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 143,181 units, down 19% on 2011. The Fiat Linea is…
Fiat Panda * NOW UPDATED with actuals for the Top 50 best-selling models: click on title to see! * Another disappointing month for the Italian car market, down 14% year-on-year in May to 147,426 registrations. This means the 2012 year-to-date total stands at 688,232 units, down 19% on 2011. The Fiat…
Wuling Rongguang * See the Top 5 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Chinese Light Commercial Vehicle sales are down 2% year-on-year in April to 434,103 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 1,791,301 units, down 5% on 2011. The Wuling Sunshine stays dominant with 46,328 sales but is…