Lada Kalina * See the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 55 All-brands by clicking on the title! * * The Full Year 2013 Report is here! * In December the Russian car market is back in positive territory for the first time since last February, up 4% year-on-year to…
First time inside the Kazakh Top 10 for the Skoda Rapid * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Irina * New car sales in Kazakhstan have clearly not exhausted their growth potential yet, up another 58% year-on-year in November to 16,898 registrations. This brings…
The Renault Duster is now the third best-seller in all of Russia. * See the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 55 All-brands by clicking on the title! * * Check out my Trans-Siberian Railway series: The portal to all Photo Reports is here * The Russian new car market goes through its…
The new generation pushes the Toyota Corolla to #17 this month. * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 54 All-brands by clicking on the title! * And it's now been 8 months in a row of year-on-year decline for Russian new car sales, down 8% in October to 234,481…
Lada Largus in Yekaterinburg, Russia September 2013 * See the Top 30 best-selling models and Top 54 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The Russian new car market is down for the 7th month in a row in September, but the fall is reduced to 5% this time at…
Honda Airwave This is Part 8 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are now moving 855km East to Irkutsk, which is 80 km off Lake Baikal. And here again a fascinating car landscape awaits… From roughly 30% of…
GAZ logo This is Part 6 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are moving 940km North East of Omsk to… Tomsk (hard to not confuse the two but I will do my best). And I am happy to…
Lada Samara in Kazan, Tatarstan Russia - September 2013 This is part 3 of a Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are now off to Kazan, 800 km East of Moscow in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. Now that Russia’s…
VW Polo * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 54 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Contact me at matt@bestsellingcarsblog.com for a more in-depth analysis of this market. The Russian new car market is in decline year-on-year for the 5th month in a row in July at…
The Lada Granta has replaced the Zhiguli in the hearts of Russian consumers. * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 56 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Those who hoped the Russian new car market would cross the 3 million annual-unit mark in 2013 to become the…
Lada Granta * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 54 All-brands by clicking on the title! * This is it: the Russian market is now officially as depressed as the rest of Europe: with June down 10% year-on-year to 241,346 registrations, we have our 4th consecutive month of…
Lada Largus * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 56 All-brands by clicking on the title! * It's official: there are now some cracks in the Russian new car market. Whereas we had witnessed almost 3 full years (34 consecutive months) of year-on-year growth until last March, May…
Toyota RAV4 * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 54 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Has the Russian car market peaked out? Will we have to wait 2014 to see it pass the 3 million annual sales milestone ? It would appear so, with new car sales…
Kia Rio * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 54 All-brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Russia continue on their excellent run: after a record year in 2012 the market is up a further 2% year-on-year in February to 210,666 registrations, bringing the year-to-date…
Renault Duster * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 54 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Building on a record year in 2012, new car sales in Russia are up a further 5% year-on-year in January to 162,077 registrations. Given Russian models data is always based on…