* Click on title to see the Golf's sales in Germany since 1974 and in Europe since 1983 * By the end of 2012, the VW Golf will have been #1 in Europe for 24 of the last 30 years, and #1 in Germany for the last 32 years in a…
Nissan Leaf * NOW UPDATED with the Top 100 best-selling models! Click on title to see * Norwegian new car sales buck the overall European trend and are up a solid 7% year-on-year in October to 12,413 units, bringing the year-to-date total to 116,612 registrations, up 2% on 2011. As usual…
BMW 1 Series * NOW UPDATED with the Top 43 All-brands ranking! Click on title to see * I have listened to your feedback dear readers and will try and add more information about the best-selling brands when I can. This update is brought to you by Express Insurance. Click…
The VW Up! is getting dangerously close to the German Top 10... * See the Top 309 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * The German new car market is up 0.5% year-on-year in October to 259,529 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 2,618,327 units, down 2% on 2011. For…
Toyota Camry * NOW UPDATED with the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 50 All-brands ranking * The Australian new car market is on fire again in October: up 12% year-on-year to 95,584 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 918,258 units, up 10% on 2011 and now almost certain to beat the all-time Full…
Kia Cee'd * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Irish licence plates are stamped with the year of registration, so new car sales in the country are at their strongest in January and slip down to minuscule numbers towards the end of the year…
Volvo V40 * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Swedish new car market slows down its decline in October at -4% year-on-year to 24,028 registrations, compared to -18% in September. The year-to-date total now stands at 227,739 units, down 10% on 2011. The…
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 2025 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…