Fiat Punto The European car market is looking brighter, up 7% year-on-year in May at 1,230,453 units. This brings the year-to-date total to 6,038,928, now only down 0.3%. 7 of the Top 10 best-selling models register year-on-year increases, compared to only 2 last month. The VW Golf stays very strong…
Holden Cruze * Now updated with the Top 150 best-selling models! See 'Read more' at end of post * The Australian car market is at -13% and 77,406 units, impacted by supply issues related to the Japanese tsunami. For the first time since March 2005, Holden passes Toyota as the…
Skoda Fabia * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at the end of the post * Czech car sales are down slightly in May at -3% and 15,482 registrations, but still up 2% year-to-date at 72,128 units. The Skoda Octavia and Fabia still dominate as…
Opel Meriva * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at the end of the post! * Car sales in Austria are up a very healthy 18% in May at 34,393 registrations and 14% year-to-date at 155,575 units. The VW Golf enjoys its 15th consecutive month…
VW Polo * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at the end of the post! * Car sales in Slovenia are stable in May at 5,513 registrations and up 2% year-to-date at 27,173 units. The Renault Clio comfortably stays Slovenia's best-seller with 425 sales and…
Dacia Logan Traditionally the Romanian new car market gets stronger as the year goes by and 2011 is no exception. May is up 70% over April but down 2% year-on-year at 8,474 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 23,152 units and -12%. The Dacia Logan delivers its best market share…
VW Golf The UK car market is down for the 11th successive month in May to 150,431 units. However the 1.7% decline was the smallest fall reported since registrations began to contract in July last year. The year-to-date figure is down 7% to 846,513 sales. The Ford Fiesta leads the…
Fiat Panda The Italian car market is back in positive this month at +3% year-on-year and 171,077 units but is still down 15% year-to-date at 846,988. The Fiat Panda is #1 again with 12,065 sales and 7.1%. It is the 12th time this generation of Panda leads Italian sales, all…
Ford Focus The Irish car market stays very solid this month, up 9% year-on-year at 9,380 units and 12% year-to-date at 66,1089 registrations. The Ford Focus reacquaints itself with a familiar situation: the domination of Ireland car sales. At 8.8% share and 823 sales, the Focus is a distant #1…
Seat Ibiza * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at the end of the post! * The Spanish car market is down again this month at -23% year-on-year with 78,870 registrations, adding up to 358,830 units year-to-date (-26%). The Seat Ibiza delivers its strongest market…
Ford Focus Finnish new car sales are up 22% in May at 12,831 registrations, bringing the year-to-date figure to 59,427 units, up 20%. The VW Golf keeps the pole position and takes its distance with the Skoda Octavia this month at 645 sales and 5% share vs. 512 and 4%.…
Volvo V60 The car market is getting better and better in Norway this year, up 31% in may at 13,005 registrations and 14% over the first 5 months of the year at 58,151 units. The VW Golf stays on top but lowers its share to 4.7% with 611 sales, now…
VW Passat The Swedes bought 30,853 new cars in May, an impressive 23% increase year-on-year. The year-to-date figure stands at 129,557 units, up 18%. The Volvo V70 stays on top at 2,110 sales and 6.8%, but the VW Passat, boosted by the new generation, is getting closer this month with…
Holden Cruze II * Now with the Top 100 best-selling models ranking: click on 'Read more' at end of post * Australian car sales are down 9% in April at 74,214 registrations and down 3% year-on-year at 322,678 units. The Holden Commodore is the best selling model for the third…
Proton Saga Malaysian consumers bought 49,065 new cars this month, bringing the year-to-date total to 202,773 registrations, up 7%. For the first time this year, the Proton Saga takes the lead of the ranking with 6,520 sales and a strong 13.3% market share. The Perodua Myvi keeps the 2011 pole…