The Kia Rio is up to #3 in Mexico in May. Picture autocosmos.com.mx The Mexican new light vehicle market bounces back up 103.8% year-on-year to 85.662 units due to covid-impacted year-ago volumes. The year-to-date tally is now up 14.6% to 428.312. However May 2021 volumes remain below pre-pandemic levels in May…
The new gen lifts Hyundai Grand i10 sales up 1678.4%. Picture autocosmos.com New light vehicle sales in Mexico shoot up 139.5% year-on-year in April to 83.611 units on weak, covid-impacted year-ago volumes. The year-to-date tally is now up 3.3% to 342.650 sales. Note April 2021 volumes remain down on pre-pandemic…
The Maruti Wagon R is the #1 vehicle in India in April. Picture carandbike.com One year ago, the Indian new light vehicle market stopped with zero wholesales and retail sales. This time, and as the country now faces the worst infection levels of any country since the start of the…
The VW Taos is up to #15 in Mexico in March. Picture autocosmos.com.mx New light vehicle sales in Mexico edge up 9.1% year-on-year in March to 95.513 units, keeping in mind March 2020 was down -25.5% on the year prior. The Q1 volume is now down -12.7% to 259.039. The Top…
The Hyundai Accent is now #1 year-to-date in Vietnam. New vehicle sales in Vietnam rally back up 61.5% on Covid-19 impacted year-ago volumes to 30.935 units according to local manufacturers association VAMA. This means the year-to-date tally is now up 35% to 70.952 units. These figures climb to 40.072 for…
MG Gloster. MG sales are up to a record 5.538 units in India in March. Picture Autocar India. New car wholesales in India shoot up 127.7% year-on-year in March to 320.487 as year-ago volumes were impacted by coronavirus lockdowns. More significantly, compared to two years ago in March 2019, the Indian market…
The Dongfeng Joyear X5 is up to 4th place overall this month. In February new car sales in New Caledonia, a French overseas archipelago located north-east of Australia, drop -3.6% year-on-year to 566, leading to a year-to-date tally down -9.5% to 1.062. Dacia (+33.9%) takes control of the brands ranking,…
The Mitsubishi Xpander is the best-selling vehicle in Vietnam in January. The Vietnamese new vehicle market is up a whopping 67.4% year-on-year in January to 26.432, this has to do with the Lunar New Year falling in February 2021 vs. January 2020 resulting in much more activity this January. This…
Honda sales are up 113.6% year-on-year in January. Picture autocarindia.com New car wholesales in India gain a splendid 15.7% year-on-year in January to 303.399 units, marking six consecutive months of year-on-year growth in stark contrast with most other global markets. Brand leader Maruti (-0.6%) posts the only year-on-year drop in…
Hyundai is the #1 carmaker in Vietnam, with the Accent its best-seller. Discover over 15 years of Vietnam Historical Data here. New vehicle sales in Vietnam drop by a restrained -7.8% year-on-year in 2020 to 296.634 according to VAMA. This figure climbs to 401.134 once adding Hyundai and VinFast who report sales…
The Maruti Swift is the best-selling vehicle in India in 2020. Explore over 60 years of Indian Historical data here. Perhaps more than most markets, India has been on a rollercoaster ride in 2020. Wholesales and retail sales were down to zero in April as the country was under strict…
The new Triber helps lift Renault sales up 75.5%. Picture nepaldrives.com The Covid-19 pandemic continues to spiral out of control in India with over 1.8 million confirmed cases and 38.135 lives lost at the time of writing this article and new daily cases records being broken almost on a daily…
Kia has sold 76.588 units in India in 7 months, including 74.518 Seltos. It's another weak month for Indian new car wholesales, down -7.2% year-on-year to an estimated 252.400 units, pulling the year-to-date tally down -6.3% to 517.396. As the market was bracing for a transition towards stricter BS6 anti-pollution…
The Toyota Hilux repeats at #1 in Peru. Discover over 15 years of Peruvian Historical Data here. New light vehicles sales in Peru edge up 2.4% year-on-year in 2019 to 151.997 units. Pickup trucks are the hero segment this year, up 17.5% to 22.654 units and 14.9% share vs. 13%…
The Suzuki Vitara teases the Toyota Hilux for pole position in 2019. Discover a decade worth of Ivory Coast Historical Data here. It's a third consecutive year of solid growth for new vehicle sales in Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) in 2019 at +17.7% to 13.384 units. Brand leader Toyota (+9.4%)…