The Mercedes CLA is up to #14 in Taiwan in April. New car sales in Taiwan skid -4.5% year-on-year in April to 31,407 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -3.7% to 127,841. Toyota (+3.2%) defies the negative trend with a small uptick to reach 32.8% share vs. 31.1% so…
Ford F-Series sales are up 9.4% over Q1. Local consultancy Desrosiers Automotive has the Canadian new light vehicle market down a steep -8.2% year-on-year in March to 170,000 units. The SAAR is down to 1.85 million, the lowest since September 2025. The Q1 volume is down -4.4% to 406,000. Desrosiers…
The Chevrolet Aveo is the best-selling vehicle in Mexico in March. New vehicle sales in Mexico edge up 2.4% year-on-year in March (on revised year-ago volume) to 131,569 units. This is the 2nd biggest March volume below the 137,021 units of March 2017. Q1 results are up 3.7% to 381,653…
The Nissan Kicks hits a record 5th place in Mexico in February. The Mexican new light vehicle market is stable in February at -0.2% year-on-year to 118,305 units. The year-to-date volume is up 4.4% to 250,084. Nissan (-5.5%) remains by far the most popular carmaker in the country but sees…
The Fiat Strada is up to #3 in Paraguay in 2025. Discover 15 years of Paraguay Historical Data here 38,611 new light vehicles hit Paraguayan roads in 2025, a solid 11.2% year-on-year lift. Toyota (-4.5%) reclaims the brands top spot off Kia (-20.1%) with Chevrolet (-9.1%) and Hyundai (-5.2%) camping…
The Ford F-Series has been the #1 vehicle in Canada for 16 straight years. Consult over 40 years worth of Canadian Historical Data here. As it is also the case for the USA, the Canadian new light vehicle market lodges a surprisingly solid 2.3% year-on-year increase in 2025 to 1,907,794…
The Chevrolet Aveo is the 2nd best-selling vehicle in Mexico in 2025. Picture by Jalopnik. Discover over 70 years worth of Mexican Historical Data here. 1,524,506 new light vehicles hit Mexican roads in 2025, a small +1.3% year-on-year improvement (the 2024 total has been updated with newcomers such as Geely).…
The new generation kicks Nissan Kicks sales up 77.6% Estimates by local consultancy DesRosiers Automotive have the Canadian new light vehicle market up 3.7% year-on-year in September to 163,000 units, with a SAAR coming in at 1.85 million. Other estimates show Q3 volumes up 1.5% to 485,000 and year-to-date sales…
First Top 5 finish for the Mazda CX-30 in Mexico. New car sales in Mexico edge up 0.5% year-on-year in September at 117,181 units, leading to a year-to-date volume off -0.2% to 1,075,266. Nissan (+11.5%) is in fine shape YoY but at 17.8% share it is below its YTD level of…
The VW Tera is up to #6 in Brazil in September. Stable sales in Brazil in September at -0.4% to 221,421, leading to a year-to-date volume up 3.5% to 1,807,581, the best result at this stage of the year since pre-pandemic 2019 (1,935,013). Fiat (-4.8%) falls year-on-year but remains dominant…
The Nissan Magnite is up to a record 8th place in Mexico in August. The Mexican new light vehicle market is down -3% year-on-year in August to 124,180 units, leading to a year-to-date tally off -0.6% to 958,085. Keep in mind Chery Group has stopped sharing Mexican sales data in…
The Nissan Magnite is up to #9 in Mexico in July. 124,482 new light vehicles hit Mexican roads in July, stable year-on-year at -0.4%. This is the third largest July volume in Mexican history below the revised 124,996 units of July 2024 and the record of 131,772 units from July…
The Fiat Fastback reaches a record 11th place in Brazil in July. New light vehicle sales in Brazil edge up 1.3% year-on-year in July to 230,223, leading to a year-to-date tally up 4.4% to 1,361,494. Fiat (+0.3%) is stable and lodges its first 50,000+ sales month of the year with a…
Honda CR-V sales are up 25.4% over Q2. Estimates by local consultancy DesRosiers Automotive have the Canadian new light vehicle market up 5.3% year-on-year in June to 178,000 units. However the year-ago comparison base was particularly low and the SAAR comes in at 1.81 million, the lowest level so far…
The Nissan Magnite is up to #11 for its third month in market. Mexican new car sales stabilise in May at -0.2% to 119,959 units. This is the third biggest May volume in the past 8 years below last year (119,985) and the 122,925 sales of May 2017. The year-to-date…