Mazda bucks the trend at +64%... * NOW UPDATED with the Top 188 best-selling models! Thanks Roberto * In April, only 6,545 new light vehicles were sold in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), down 14.5% on April 2013. It is the sharpest year-on-year decline since BSCB started…
Lexus plays a big role in getting Toyota to #1 in Singapore this month. * See the Top 34 All-brands by clicking on the title! * After two months in positive, new car sales in Singapore are back in negative territory, down 7% year-on-year in April to 1,792 registrations, however…
Nissan Almera * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 58 All-brands by clicking on the title! * After seeming to plateau in March at just -0.4%, Russian new car sales are back in hell in April, potentially handicapped by the economic sanctions imposed on the country: down 8%…
The Peugeot 2008 is now among Europe's Top 20 best-sellers in 2014. * See the Top 346 best-selling models and Top 60 brands by clicking on the title! * As is now the (new) tradition on BSCB, after going through detailed monthly figures for March we explore the year-to-date rankings…
RAM Pick-up sales are up 23% so far in 2014 in the US. * See the Top 263 models and Top 38 brands by clicking on the title! * Every month on BSCB after going through US April sales we explore the year-to-date charts to try and extract longer-term trends. Thanks to…
VW Tiguan * See the Top 300 best-selling models and Top 50 brands by clicking on the title! * It's not quite full-on recovery territory for Germany yet with sales down 4% year-on-year in April to 274,097 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 985,850 units, up 3% on 2013. Below the…
The Dacia Logan holds 19% of the Romanian market in April. * See the Top 80 best-selling models and Top 35 All-brands by clicking on the title! * After 4 consecutive months of year-on-year growth including 3 double-digit gains, Romanian new car sales are sadly and worryingly back into negative…
Kia Picanto * See the Top 235 All-models and Top 42 All-brands by clicking on the title! Thanks www.cartube.co.il * The Israeli new car market is up 6% year-on-year in April to 18,332 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 90,724 units, up a fantastic 22% on 2013. In the brands ranking, Toyota manages…
The Skoda Fabia is the best-selling vehicle in Poland in April. * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 15 brands by clicking on the title! * The Polish new car market is up a splendid 13% year-on-year in April to 30,908 registrations including LCV, even as the special…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 36 All-brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Estonia are up 6% year-on-year in April to 2,043 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 6,788 units, up 3% on 2013. For the first time this year,…
Seat Ibiza * See the Top 215 best-selling models and Top 47 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Stuck in hell for a few very long years, the Spanish new car market is definitely smelling the roses now: up 28% year-on-year to 80,210 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to…
Toyota Prado * See the Top 15 best-selling models and Top 45 All-brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Australia hit their lowest month in two years, down 5% year-on-year to 80,710 new vehicles in April, the poorest result since April 2012 (79,097). The Toyota Corolla leads…
Dacia sales are up 40% in Belgium in March. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 45 All-brands and Top 320 All-models! Click on title to see * New car sales in Belgium are down 0.5% year-on-year in March to 52,808 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 148,532 units, down 0.4% on…
Skoda Octavia in Bourke, NSW Australia This Part 2 of my Photo Report on the Australian Outback, you can check Part 1 here. Now that we've described how utes are extremely well represented in Outback Australia, let's weigh the pros and cons of the AU$34,690 1.8l TSI Skoda Octavia Elegance…
Road Train vs. Skoda Octavia… Who wins? I have been mentioning the new generation Skoda Octavia on BestSellingCarsBlog a lot in the past 6 months as it progressively climbed the European rankings to reach an all-time high 5th place in October and November 2013, ranking inside the Top 10 for 5…