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Tanzania: Toyota Corolla real king

* Click on the title for street videos! * Tanzania is one of Toyota Corolla's favorite playgrounds: up to 1 in 3 vehicle on Tanzanian roads is a Toyota Corolla. Even though the new generation is still very hard to notice, in all likeliness it should be the best selling…

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Guatemala 2010: Yaris, Hilux and Aveo on top

The Guatemalan car market is a relatively difficult one to approach as it seems to be quite fragmented. However, 3 models should stand out in the rankings: the Toyota Yaris Sedan, Toyota Hilux and Chevrolet Aveo. Other strong sellers in Guatemala are the Mazda3, VW Polo, Mitsubishi Lancer, Hyundai Santa…

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Zambia: Toyota king

Toyota Hilux in Livingstone, Zambia June 2007 * Click on title for more street scenes! * The Zambian car market shows the strength of Toyota: at least 1 in every 3 cars is a Toyota Corolla! In all likeliness the Corolla is still the best-selling car in the country these…

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Botswana 2007: Hilux and Corolla in the lead

Toyota Hilux in Kasane, Botswana June 2007 * Click on title for more street scenes and Total market data for 1985-1999 * Toyota 'owns' the Batswana market with 1,958 sales and 40% market share in 2007, ahead of Nissan at 8% and VW at 5%. Observation in the country in 2007…

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Qatar 2010: Land Cruiser at 15%+

Picture by Aljazi Al-Nasr. All rights reserved. Car sales in Qatar are pretty easy to decipher as a few models really stand out. The Toyota Land Cruiser is omnipresent in the streets of Doha and should secure no less than 15 to 20% of the Qatari market this year. In…

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Bahrain 2010: Yaris sedan & Camry fight it out

Each Middle-Eastern state has a Toyota model at #1, and in the case of Bahrain, the Toyota Yaris Sedan and Camry should fight it out for the first place, followed by the Corolla and Nissan Tiida. Other models that could also slip into the Top 10 include the Honda Accord,…

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Kuwait 2010: Camry, Hilux & Lumina should lead sales

Chevrolet Lumina The Kuwaiti car market is similar to its neighbour's, Saudi Arabia. 2 of the Top 3 likely best sellers are imported from Australia: The Toyota Camry should be the leader, and the Chevrolet Lumina (aka Holden Commodore) could be #3. The Toyota Hilux should come in 2nd. Toyota…

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World 2009: Corolla #1 with 900,000+ sales

No surprises, the Toyota Corolla is the best-selling car in the world in 2009, thanks to very strong results in the USA, Japan, China and most of Asia and Africa. 908,661 units of the model were sold in 2009 alone. The Ford Focus takes the second spot with 781,139 registrations,…

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Yemen 2010: Hilux and Yaris Sedan in command

Toyota Yaris in Yemeni street There are no official car sales figures available for Yemen, so I relied on observation of the main Yemeni cities' streets through YouTube videos. They show that in all likeliness, the Toyota Hilux is the best-selling vehicle in Yemen, followed by the Toyota Yaris Sedan.…

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Cambodia: Camry potential best-seller

* Click on the title for many more street scenes! * Based on observation of the streets of Phnom Penh through YouTube videos, the Toyota Camry is in all likeliness the best-selling car in Cambodia, and could have been so for many years given the number of different generations still…

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Myanmar: More information needed

* Click on title for more pictures! * Observation of the streets of Yangon through YouTube videos bring to light a particular situation in the Myanmar car market: very high import taxes make new cars an out of reach prospect for most consumers, and in this context, the 1992 Toyota…

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