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…
Yet to come to Brazil, the new gen Renault Sandero is already on sale in Central Europe (above). * NOW UPDATED with the Top 150 best-selling models and Top 30 brands! * For the 6th time in the past 8 months, the Brazilian new car market is down year-one-year, although in…
Wuling Hongguang in Beijing * See the Top 348 All-models and Top 66 brands by clicking on the title! * As is the tradition on BSCB, after exploring the May sales figures in detail and focusing on the all-new models launched this month, we go through the year-to-date rankings to…
Nissan sales are up 29% in May in Canada. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 252 best-selling models and Top 33 brands! * The Canadian new car market continues to evolve at records heights: up 6% year-on-year in May to 195,571 registrations, simply the best May on record according to DesRosiers…
Honda Mobilio * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Shock, horror: for the first time in at least 4 years, the Indonesian new car market is down year-on-year in May at -2% to 97,147 registrations, however the year-to-date total is still up a beautiful…
Mazda3 Axela * See the Top 327 models by clicking on the title! Thanks Carnewschina for the pricing info * As is the tradition on BSCB, after going through detailed sales figures for May, I spend a bit more time acknowledging the all-new entrants in the models ranking, to ensure you are across…
VW Santana * See the Top 327 All-local models and Top 64 brands by clicking on the title! * Still no sign of slowing down for the Chinese new car market, with May up another 8.5% to 1.91 million units across all segments, bringing the year-to-date total to 9.84 million units,…
Volvo XC60 * 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 5 months of 2014. Over the period, new car sales are up 16%…
Suzuki Wagon R * See the Top 15 best-selling local models by clicking on the title! * Only sales of locally-produced models are available monthly in Pakistan, giving us an insight into what should form roughly 80% of the overall Pakistani market. In May sales of these vehicles are down…