Toyota Hilux in Livingstone, Zambia June 2007 * Click on title for more street scenes! * The Zambian car market shows the strength of Toyota: at least 1 in every 3 cars is a Toyota Corolla! In all likeliness the Corolla is still the best-selling car in the country these…
Picture by Aljazi Al-Nasr. All rights reserved. Car sales in Qatar are pretty easy to decipher as a few models really stand out. The Toyota Land Cruiser is omnipresent in the streets of Doha and should secure no less than 15 to 20% of the Qatari market this year. In…
Absolutely no car sales data coming from Jordan, so I'm using YouTube videos of Amman's streets to find out more about this market. This is complete speculation based on very little information so please get it touch if you have any more info! It looks like the old generation Mitsubishi…
* Click on the title for many more street scenes! * Based on observation of the streets of Phnom Penh through YouTube videos, the Toyota Camry is in all likeliness the best-selling car in Cambodia, and could have been so for many years given the number of different generations still…
Chevrolet TFR The Egyptian car market is up 41% this year at 170,614 units. If the best-seller doesn't change - still the Chevrolet TFR Pickup at 14,305 sales and 8.4%, the rest of the Top 5 is reshuffled. Toyota Yaris The Hyundai Verna is up 7 spots, going from 3.8%…
More than 150.000 Isuzu D-Max were sold in Thailand in 2005, a record. Half a decade after the financial crisis that annihilated the market, Thai new vehicle sales finally return to pre-crisis levels with 2003 volumes up 28.9% to 518.440, only the third half-million+ annual result in Thai history after…
The Caprice is Chevrolet's best-selling car in Saudi Arabia over the period. New car sales in Saudi Arabia continue to gallop ahead with 2004 volumes up 14.8% year-on-year to a record 341,477 units. Toyota (+5.4%) trails the market but still lodges a splendid 34.9% share. It is followed this year…
The Toyota Hilux is the best-selling vehicle in Thailand in 2002. New vehicle sales in Thailand continue to gallop ahead with a 4th straight double-digit gain in 2002 at +38.2% sending the market above the 400.000 unit milestone for the first time since 1996 at 402.224. Toyota (+55.8%) frankly outpaces…
The Isuzu Faster Z was also called Golden Power, Dragon Eyes or Dragon Power in Thailand over the period. The Thai new vehicle market wakes up from its financial crisis torpor with a 53.6% year-on-year surge in 1999 leading to 212.974 sales, albeit less than half the high of 547.000 sales…
The Isuzu Faster Z is now available as a 4WD called Rodeo. New vehicle sales in Thailand edge up 3.1% in 1996 to a new record 546.853, with Toyota (+2.7%) coming up with a round 30% share with Isuzu (+2.1%), Nissan (+5.9%) and Mitsubishi (+6.6%) all above 10%. Honda (+44.1%)…
The Toyota Hilux edges past the Isuzu Faster to #1 in Thailand in 1995. The Thai new vehicle market leaps up 17% year-on-year in 1995 to reach 530.469 units, believed to be its first time above the half-million mark. Brand leaders Toyota (+25.9%), Isuzu (+19.9%) and Nissan (+35.2%) all outpace the…
The Isuzu Faster Z tops the Thai sales charts over the period. In 1992, Thai new vehicle sales surge 37% to 338.267 units. Toyota (+25.2%) drops to 28.3% share ahead of Nissan (+15.7%) holding onto the #2 spot off Isuzu (+27.9%) for just 46 sales. Mitsubishi (+42.5%), Mazda (+59.6%) and…
Nissan is #2 in Thailand in 1991 with 22.2% share (1989 Big M above). 260.969 new vehicles found a buyer in Thailand in 1990. Toyota (30.1%) leads the brands ranking ahead of Isuzu (20.5%), Nissan (19.7%), Mitsubishi (12.2%) and Mazda (7.4%). The models ranking makes us discover that Thailand has…