Honda NBOX * See the 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Kei car sales are up 25% year-on-year in February to 186,413 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 339,070 units, up 27%. The Daihatsu Mira continues to dominate the category, leading the way for the 5th consecutive…
Toyota Aqua * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Boosted by subsidies on green cars, the Japanese market is up a massive 33% year-on-year in February and the Top 4 models see progressions of at least 48% year-on-year. The Toyota Prius beats its monthly…
Honda NBOX * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Sales of Kei cars are up a massive 29% year-on-year in January at 152,657 registrations, boosted by government incentives. The Daihatsu Mira is establishing itself as the new best-seller in the category, #1 for the fourth month…
Toyota Aqua * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Japanese car market is up a whopping 41% year-on-year in January to 263,267 registrations, the biggest rise on record for a month of January, albeit from a historically low base, thanks to the extension beyond…
Honda NBOX * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * In December sales of Kei cars are up 18% year-on-year at 127,246 units, bringing the final 2011 total to 1,521,146 registrations, down 12% on 2010. Last month the Daihatsu Mira managed to hold the pole position for…
VW Golf * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Imports sales in Japan are compiled by a different organisation, the Japan Automobile Importers Association, and 2011 figures are out! Japanese consumers bought 205,857 foreign models in 2011, up 13% on 2010 and bringing the…
Toyota Prius * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * NOW UPDATED with imports: The VW Golf now #24 overall! (See here for full details) 2011 was a very tough year for Japan. The deadly March 11 earthquake and tsunami paralysed the country for many…
The VW Passat was #2 in Austria in 2001 * View the links to these 23 new posts by cliking on the title! * I am taking advantage of the Christmas holidays to upload more historical data for various countries. For the first time on Best Selling Cars Blog you can…
Daihatsu Mira E:S * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Boosted by the new E:S version, the Daihatsu Mira confirms its newly acquired pole position in the Kei car ranking, even improving on an already outstanding October to 20,052 sales, up a massive 284% on November…
Toyota Prius Alpha * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Japanese car market is up another 24% year-on-year this month after growing by 28% in October, a contrast to the tsunami-plagued first half of the year. The Toyota Prius continues to dominate the…
Daihatsu Mira E:S * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Thanks to the E:S version just launched, the Daihatsu Mira, #2 last month, grabs the pole position in October with almost double the sales of the next best-selling Kei car in Japan! Its 19,918 sales…
Toyota Prius MPV (US version) * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title of the article or 'Read more'! * Japanese new car sales are up an impressive 28% year-on-year vs. October 2010 when sales tanked on the first full month after government subsidies to replace cars…
Daihatsu Mira * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * While the Japanese passenger car market is up by 1.7% this month, the Kei cars market is still down year-on-year at -9%. The Suzuki Wagon R leads the way for the 7th consecutive…
Honda Fit Shuttle * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * For the first time since August 2010, the Japanese car market is up year-on-year, but at a very shy +1.7% and 313,790 registrations. The year-to-date total is still down 26%…
Nissan Moco * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * At 113,328 units, the Kei cars market is down 16% year-on-year. The Top 5 best-sellers are unchanged vs. July: the Suzuki Wagon R leads the way at 12,933 sales (-4%), followed by the…