Fiat 500 Canadian car sales are up a healthy 7% in April at 159,942 registrations. The Ford F-Series is on top again with 8,858 sales and 5.5% share. Now counted together, the twins Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra are close behind, landing in 2nd place with 8,479 sales and 5.3%.…
Honda Fit Bad news keep coming from Japan. As predicted, the new car market plunged even further in April, down 51% year-on-year to 108,824 units, the lowest monthly volume since records started in January 1968. Toyota is hit hardest at -69%. More details here. The models ranking is surprisingly stable…
Lexus CT200h * Now with the Top 65 best selling models in Q1 2011: click on 'Read more' at end of post * At 93,984 registrations, Australian car sales are down just 1% year-on-year in March. The Holden Commodore stays #1 at 4,170 sales and 4.4%, but the 2011 leader is…
VW Caddy * See the Top 50 best selling models by clicking on 'Read more' below * At 1,902 units over the first 3 months of 2011, new car sales in Latvia are up 132% on 2010 and 45% on 2009 but are still a far cry (-68%!) from the…
* Now with the Top 200 best selling models: click on 'Read more' at the end of the post * The German car market is definitely back on track, up 11% in March at 327,911 registrations. Unsurprisingly, the VW Golf is in the lead at 7.5% share, and it is…
Honda Fit Hybrid The effect on car sales of the quake and tsunami that devastated the country is now tangible: the Japanese car market dropped 37% in March at 279,389 units. This is the highest year-on-year fall for Nippon car sales since the -55% of May 1974 during the oil-supply…
Luxgen 7 SUV The Taiwanese car market is simply euphoric this month: at 53,310 registrations it is the best monthly figure in 4 years! The Toyota Corolla holds onto its #1 spot with an even increased market share (10%) and the Nissan Tiida stays 2nd at a strong 5.6% share…
The Lada 2105-7 (Riva) reclaims the best-selling title it had held for decades before 2009. * See the annual and monthly Top 57 All-brands and Top 25 models by clicking on the title * After sinking 49% in 2009, aggressive scrappage schemes enable the Russian car market to bounce back up 30.3%…
* 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…
Toyota Avensis * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * In 2009 only 3,745 new cars were registered in Latvia, that's 90% less than in 2007! Toyota makes the most of this devastated market by placing 4 models in the Top 4: the Avensis is…
Ford F-Series * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * One word: dreadful. 2009 is the worst year for car sales since 1982, down 21% on an already timid 2008 at 10.4 million units. In spite of a context extremely unfavourable…
* You can see the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Toyota Corolla returns to its traditional Japanese market domination pattern and leads 8 months out of 12. The 10th generation of the model is launched in October and sales reflect it immediately: the Corolla…
Suzuki Swift * See the Top 40 All-brands and Top 50 models by clicking on the title * New car sales in Hungary drop 5.6% year-on-year in 2006 to 187.842 units. Local producer Suzuki celebrates ten consecutive years atop the brands ranking but sinks 17% this year to 17.4% share.…
Toyota Corolla * See the Top 40 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * 16,680 new cars were registered in Latvia in 2005, up a huge 48% on 2004 and the Toyota Corolla is by far the best-selling model in the country with 811 sales and a very solid…
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…