Ferrari sales are up 325% year-on-year in October. Contrasting with record-breaking exports, imports of new cars into China continue to freefall at -19.1% year-on-year in October to 48,625. Year-to-date volumes are down -11.8% to 524,504. Lexus (-8.3%) and Mercedes (-3.3%) resist better than the market and top the brands charts…
Audi A5 sales are up 176.3% year-on-year in August. Sales of new imported sink -17.8% year-on-year in August to 60,602 units. This leads to a year-to-date tally down -8.1% to 469,840. Lexus (-6.7%) resists better than the market and threepeats at #1. Yet this is not enough to snap the YTD…
The Hyundai Santa Fe enjoys a 4th consecutive month in pole position. This post has been updated with the Top 85 best-selling foreign models. The South Korea new car market sinks 5% year-on-year in June to 155.138 registrations, just as foreign carmakers drop 2% to 23.311 units, this time failing…
Toyota Prado * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Ldman * New car sales in Bahrain are up a magnificent 22% year-on-year in March to 5,885 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 16,195 units, up 21% on 2013. Leader over the Full Year 2013 but…
The Toyota Hilux is still king of the desert in the Middle-East… Picture by 3zoz_1 * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Ldman * The Gulf Cooperation Council area includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and is one of the most dynamic car markets in the…
Did you know the Toyota Camry was also sold under the Daihatsu brand as the Altis in Japan? * See the Top 165 All-local models ranking by clicking on the title! Thanks Stephen * Thanks to Stephen I can share with you today the 2013 sales results of absolutely all…
Pimped out Tokyoite Hummer H3 * NOW UPDATED with more photos! * * See the Full Photo Report by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Stephen * No I have not gone off to Tokyo in Japan, no travelling for me for a while! One of BSCB's readers, Stephen,…
The Infiniti Q50 ranks #190, the second best-selling all-new model in 2013. * See the Top 278 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * After going through the October sales data, as is the tradition on BSCB we try and extract some longer-term trends by looking into the year-to-date charts.…
The Buick Encore is now the best-selling all-new model in 2013. * See the Top 276 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * After going through the September sales data, let’s try and extract some longer-term trends by looking into the year-to-date charts. In spite of a 4% year-on-year drop…
The Toyota Probox is the most popular used Japanese import in Omsk. This is Part 5 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this Long Term Photo Report here. We are now travelling almost 1000 km South East of Yekaterinburg to Omsk, the start of…
2014 Chevrolet Silverado. GM went hard on pick-up truck incentives this month to draw down their 139 days of inventory ahead of the introduction of 2014-model trucks in Q2 2013. * NOW UPDATED with new predictions. See the full article by clicking on the title! * Automotive News published another round of predictions for…
Toyota Prado * See the Top 70 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Bahrain are up 29% year-on-year in November to 3,717 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 42,159 units, up 47% on 2011. October highlights included the 5th place of the Nissan Altima,…
Toyota Prado * See the Top 150 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * The Kuwaiti new car market reaches new heights in November, up 31% year-on-year to 13,183 registrations, the highest monthly volume in at least 2 years and potentially ever. Year-to-date sales are…
Chevrolet Colorado * See the Top 150 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * Another outstanding month for new car sales in Saudi Arabia, up a huge 42% year-on-year in November to 63,094 registrations and bringing the year-to-date total to 634,634 units, up 17% on…
The UK is the Lexus GS450h #1 market in Europe * See all Lexus UK sales figures by clicking on the title! * Today Sophie Gannon from Lexus UK had the kindness of sharing very detailed sales figures for Toyota's luxury division so I thought it would be worth a…