* Click on title for more street scenes and video! * Two cars have been dominating the Turkmen market for many years now: the Toyota Camry (starting with the 1996 generation) and the Lada 2105. These two models add up to almost half the cars in circulation in the capital…
Lada 2104 in Azerbaijan * Click on title for more street scenes! * Azerbaijan's streets are filled with various generations of Lada 2104/2105's and this model should still be the best selling car in the country in 2010. Other very successful cars here are the Hyundai Sonata, Kia Cerato Forte,…
Vintage American car in Cuba. Picture by Walter Lo Cascio. All rights reserved. The Cuban car market structure is a fascinating testimony of the country's last 60 years history. Its famous 1950's American cars (60,000 are still in circulation), relics of the pre-revolutionary period, are now outnumbered by over 100,000 Ladas,…
Russian November car sales are up 80% year-on-year at 189,902 registrations! For the first time ever, the Lada Kalina is number 1 in Russia, with 12,148 sales and 6.4% of the market. Only 400 sales below stand the Lada Priora (11,753, 6.2%) and the Lada 2105/2017 (11.737, 6.2%) which keeps its…
The Russian market continues its great run with +65% in October at 188,478 registrations. The Lada 2105/2107 is still on top with 7.1% (vs. 7.6% in Sept), ahead of the Lada Priora which jumps one spot in 2nd at 6.3%, followed by the Kalina at 6.2% and the Samara at…
ZAZ Lanos * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * The Ukrainian car market virtually stopped in 2009: it went from 623,253 sales in 2008 to 162,291, down a devastating 74%. In this context, the ZAZ Lanos, a 1998 Daewoo Lanos…
The launch of a scrappage scheme in Russia has boosted the market: +55% in September 2010! The scheme has affected the model rankings greatly, benefitting the cheaper models. The 30-year old Lada 2105/2107 is leading, and after reaching no less than 10% of the market in the last few months,…
Lada Priora * See the Top annual and monthly Top 56 All-brands and Top 25 models by clicking on the title * Russian car sales are hit full frontal by the Global Financial Crisis in 2009, almost halving the record 2008 score at -49% to just 1.465.917 units. Russian carmakers get a…
ZAZ Lanos * See the Top 9 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Record year for new car sales in Ukraine at 623,253 registrations. The locally-produced ZAZ Lanos dominates the sales charts with 55,783 units and 9% market share above the Chevrolet Aveo at 5.3% and the Lada…
Lada 2107 * See the Top annual and monthly 53 All-brands and annual and monthly Top 20 models by clicking on the title * The Russian new car market soars 23.6% year-on-year in 2008 to smash its all-time volume record at 2.897.459 registrations. This remains the largest ever annual volume in Russia, making…
Lada 2105 * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks to Anton for the tip * The Russian car market is up 20% year-on-year to reach a record 2,344,785 units in 2007, its first time above 2m annual sales. The Lada 2104-7 stays in pole position…
The Ford Focus is the best-selling foreign nameplate in Russia in 2006. * See the Top 63 All-brands and Top 320 All-models by clicking on the title * The Russian new car market enjoys a 4th consecutive all-time record year in 2006, up a fantastic 19.7% year-on-year to 1.953.998 registrations. As it…
Daewoo Lanos 121,437 new cars found a buyer in Egypt in 2005. Below the Chevrolet TFR pickup (aka Isuzu D-Max) at 10,765 sales and 8.9% sales, the locally-produced Daewoo Lanos is #2 with 10,043 units and a solid 8.3% share. The Hyundai Matrix rounds up the podium with 8,270 sales…
The Lada Samara misses out on the Russian pole position again. * See the Top 60 All-brands and Top 320 All-models by clicking on the title * It's a third consecutive record year for new car sales in Russia, up 11% to 1.632.464 units in 2005. The foreign wave continues to…
The Lada Samara misses out on the pole position for less than 1.000 sales. * See the Top 45 All-brands and Top 275 All-models by clicking on the title * New car sales in Russia surge 19.1% year-on-year in 2004 to smash their all-time volume record established just last year…