Street Scene in Asmara, Eritrea. Picture by Eric Lafforgue. All rights reserved. The Eritrean car market is very easy to decipher because a handful of cars clearly dominate the streets. In all likeliness and judging by the number of old gen models filling the streets, the Toyota Hilux should be…
Toyota Prado in Cotonou, Benin 2010 * Click on title for more street scenes/videos with Beninese rap music! * Relatively developed market in Benin with the Toyota Hilux and Prado in all likeliness dominating the new car sales. Other successful models include the Honda CR-V, Hyundai Accent, Nissan Frontier, Toyota…
Ford Ranger in Freetown, Sierra Leone * Click on the title for more street scenes and video! * Only a couple of recent videos of the streets of the country are available, and there are very few new cars in them which makes it very difficult to estimate best car…
* Click on title for street scenes and video! * Extremely limited new car market in Chad, with the only recent cars in the streets of capital N'Djamena being the Toyota Hilux and Corolla. Most recent videos on YouTube date back to 2007/2008, so it's impossible to know whether the…
Toyota Corolla in Bujumbura, Burundi * Click on title for more street scenes! * Around 50% of the cars in circulation in the capital Bujumbura is a Toyota Corolla, so in all likeliness the model should lead the car sales in Burundi. The Toyota Hilux also seems to be doing…
Toyota Prado in Lome, Togo * Click on title for more street scenes and video * Very little information to draw on as far as the car market in Togo is concerned. Based on only a few videos and photos of the streets of Lome, my bet is that the…
The Gabonese market is down 2% over the first semester 2010 with 2,147 sales, its lowest level in 10 years. The most recent data by brands is for 2009 when the market fell by 7.5% at 4,638 sales. Toyota was 1st with 31.3% of the market, followed by Mitsubishi (18.7%),…
* Click on title for street scenes and videos! * No less than half the cars in circulation in Bamako, Mali's capital and biggest city, are old Mercedes imported from Europe: mainly 1980's Mercedes 190 & 220/230 and 1990's Mercedes C Class. As far as new cars are concerned, the…
* Click on title for a Kigali street video! * The majority of cars in circulation in Kigali are Toyota Corollas of various generations, and the last gen should continue the tradition and lead the models ranking in Rwanda, with the Toyota Hilux and Nissan Hardbody also popular. Street Scene…
* Click on the title for an Estimated Top 15, street videos and street scenes! * Observation of the streets of the capital Luanda show that the Angolan car market is quite developed, and dominated by the Toyota Hilux and Mitsubishi L200. Other very popular cars are the Chevrolet Matiz, Toyota…
* Click on title for street scenes and videos! * The Burkinabe car market is relatively developed, at least in the capital Ouagadougou, with a respectable amount of new cars in the streets. The Toyota Hilux should lead the sales in Burkina Faso, other successful cars being the Suzuki Grand…
JAC Tojoy Still very limited, the new car market in Madagascar is dominated by Asian brands: Toyota is in the lead in Q2 2010 at 11.8% (down from 17.9% in Q4 '09), ahead of Nissan and Mitsubishi. However the big novelty in Q2 is the thunderous arrival of two Chinese…
Even though the Toyota Hilux is still #1 over 11 months 2010 at 2,046 sales, the Hyundai Tucson iX (aka ix35) delivers an outstanding performance over October/November 2010 with 789 units sold, ahead of the Hyundai Accent (540), the Hilux coming in 3rd over the period at 397 sales. Full…
* Click on title for street scenes and videos! * Extremely limited car market in Niger with new cars virtually absent of the streets of the capital Niamey. With only 800km of paved road in this 1.3 million km2 country, road travel is a challenge. 80% of cars in the…
* Click on title for street scenes and videos! * Like many other African markets, Malawi is 'owned' by Toyota, which should place the Hilux and Corolla on top of the sales, and the Fortuner, Land Cruiser 70 and Hiace a bit lower. The Nissan Hardbody also seem quite successful.…