Fiat Strada * See the Top 120 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at the end of the post! * Brazilian car sales are up 27% in May at 300,534 units and up 8% year-to-date at 1,351,165. The VW Gol manages to steer away from the Fiat Uno a…
VW Saveiro * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at the end of the post * The Brazilian car market returns to outstanding growth, up 30% year-on-year over the first half of May at 139,886 registrations. For the first time since February, the VW Gol…
VW Lavida * Now with the Top 180 best-selling models! Click on 'Read more' at the end of the post * The VW Lavida is the best selling car in China this month with 23,439 sales. It is the 5th time in the last 12 months that the Lavida tops…
* See the Top 100 best selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at the end of the post * The Brazilian car market is level year-on-year at 149,604 registrations over the first half of April. The Gol-Uno battle is heating up, with the Uno back in pole position over…
Mexican consumers continue to buy more new cars than last year, a total of 75,125 units in March, up 15%. The Nissan Tsuru reclaims the pole position, just: with 5,406 sales (7.2%) it is 95 units above the VW Clasico at 5,311 (7.1%). The Nissan Tiida Sedan at #3, Chevrolet…
FAW Xiali N5 * See the Top 150 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at the end of the post * The Chinese car market continues to take a breather after the extravagant growth of 2010, up 5% in March at 1,828,500 vehicles and 8% over the first quarter…
VW Clasico The Mexican car market is up a healthy 13% in February at 66,990 registrations. For once the Nissan Tsuru is not the best selling car this month, the honour going to the old generation Jetta and recently renamed VW Clasico. It's been a while since the Tsuru was…
VW Jetta Excellent start of the year in Turkey with 29,868 registrations in January, +137% year-on-year! The Renault Symbol reaches 9.4% market share with 2,807 sales, nearly double its historical level... Outstanding performance of the VW Jetta, up to #2 with 1,755 sales and 5.9%. The Hyundai Accent Era is…
Relatively good start of the year for the Mexican car market at +7% with 68,766 registrations. Nissan places two models on top: the Nissan Tsuru is #1 again, and even grows faster than the market at +13% with 5,366 sales (7.8%), and the Nissan Tiida Sedan continues its amazing progression…
BYD F3 *Thanks to DC at www.autoweek.nl for the Full Year 2010 Top 200! See 'Read more' below* This month, 3 Chinese models land in the Top 6, a feat rare enough to be noticed. The BYD F3, after months spent outside the podium, comes back to #1 to cap off…
Nissan Tsuru in Mexico The Mexican car market is up 14% in December at 104,941 sales, bringing the 2010 total to 820,406 registrations, up 9%. The new Jetta 'threat' was short-lived: in December the Nissan Tsuru is again way above the competition at 6.9% share, finishing the year at 61,147…
The Turkish car market is euphoric this month at +182% year-on-year and 50,061 registrations, bringing the year-to-date figure to 410,323, up 31%. The Renault Symbol, #1 in November at 5.8%, is now also the best selling car in Turkey year-to-date with 23,558 sales and 5.7%, passing the Hyundai Accent (23,174…
Another good month for the Mexican car market, up 16% in November at 75,582 registrations and 8% year-to-date with 715,465. While the Nissan Tsuru is still ahead with 5,112 sales and 6.8% this month, its advantage over the VW Jetta dropped to 194 units, vs. 334 units in October. Note…
October is up an astounding 246% year-on-year in Turkey with 47,859 registrations, the 10 months total being now up 22% at 360,262 units. The Renault Symbol is #1 again this month and stays above 6% market share. Provided it continues at that rate, it will pass the Hyundai Accent in…
The Mexican car market is experiencing a slow growth this year after the devastating blow of the financial crisis, with +7% over 10 months at 639,883 registrations and +9% in October at 74,094. The Nissan Tsuru is still the king of the Mexican roads with 5,097 sales in October (6.9%)…