The Audi Q3 is up 63% year-on-year in June in China. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 318 models and Top 64 brands! Click on title to see * According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, light vehicle sales in China are up a sturdy 11% year-on-year both in June…
The Macan lifts Porsche Canada sales up 66% in June. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 250 All-models and Top 33 brands! Click on title to see * The new car market in Canada is up 2% year-on-year in June to an excellent 175,682 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to…
Honda Vezel * NOW UPDATED with the Top 30 best-selling models and Top 13 brands! * Regular passenger vehicles sales in Japan are down slightly from 2013 (-1.8%) to 229,037 registrations but still up year-to-date (+7.2%) at 1,554,597 units. This month the Toyota Aqua puts an end to 3 consecutive months…
Chevrolet Silverado * See the Top 267 best-selling models and Top 37 brands by clicking on the title! * As is the tradition on BSCB, after going through US June figures we now explore year-to-date data to try and extract longer-term trends. Halfway through 2014, the US light vehicle market is up a…
BMW 1 Series * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * German Private Sales (PS) data is always a little controversial because of its definition in this country: are counted as private the cars sold to private buyers. Demo cars, rental cars and long-term leases are not counted as…
Nissan Qashqai * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Thanks to data provided by SEMO Cyprus and analysed by INNOSOFT, I can share with you the models ranking for Cyprus over the first 6 months of 2014. Over the period new car sales are up 17%…
Hyundai Sonata sales are up 30% in June thanks to the new model. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 260 models, Top 38 brands & Top 15 groups! * After a fantastic month of May, most analysts had predicted the US new light vehicle market to decline year-on-year in June. Nope.…
Maruti Wagon R * See the Top 60 best-selling models and Top 14 brands by clicking on the title! * Is this the rebound everyone had been waiting for? After gaining ground for the first time in almost a year last month, in June new car sales in India are…
Nissan Versa * See the Top 10 best-selling models and Top 30 brands by clicking on the title! * In June the Mexican new car market is up a shy 0.5% year-on-year to 84,127 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to just above half a million units at 500,360, down 0.3%…
Skoda Octavia RS * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 35 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The Estonian new car market is up 11% year-on-year in June to 1,894 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 10,669 units, up 4% on 2013. Toyota keeps its stranglehold on…
Daihatsu Copen * NOW UPDATED with the Top 33 best-selling models and Top 8 brands! Thanks Stephen * Sales of new Kei cars are up 2% year-on-year in June to 187,384 units and 15% year-to-date to an all-time high 1,235,204 registrations, with the Daihatsu Tanto keeping the lead for the 7th consecutive…
Fiat Palio * See the Top 150 best-selling models and Top 20 brands by clicking on the title! * The Soccer World Cup definitely has had a noxious effect on new car sales in Brazil so far: June sales are down a painful 17% year-on-year to 250,655 registrations, bringing the…
Toyota Yaris (Chinese model pictured) * See the Top 50 best-selling models & Top 9 brands by clicking on the title! Thanks Austin * The Thai new car market continues its free fall: down another 38% year-on-year in May to just 69,681 registrations, which brings the year-to-date total to 367,112…
The Ford Escort is the best-selling Passenger Car in the US in 1987 and 1988. Thanks to an avid reader of BSCB, I have now added full models ranking for the USA for each year between 1985 and 1991, slowly but surely filling up the holes in US Historical Data on…
Honda holds 13.2% of the Malaysian car market (Thailand City pictured). * See the Top 44 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Malaysia are up 13% year-on-year in May to 55,939 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 274,581 units, up 6% on 2013. Perodua…