The Fiat Ducato is up to #2 overall in Germany in May. 11/06 update : Now with Top 285 All Private sales models. With car dealerships reopening as early as April 20, the -49.5% year-on-year drop of German new car sales in May to just 168.148 units can be considered…
Heavy discounts lift Kia sales up 96.8% in a market down -31.7%. From -71.4% in April, the Slovenian new car market recovers to -31.7% and 5.086 registrations on May which is the smallest year-on-year decline of all 23 European markets we have covered so far. The year-to-date tally is now…
The Ford Puma signs its first Romanian Top 20 finish. Picture turatiiscrise.ro The Romanian new car market only marginally improves on April (-50.3%) with May sales down -45% year-on-year to 7.155 units, pulling the year-to-date tally down -31.4% to 29.355. Homegrown brand leader Dacia (-34.9%) resists a lot better and pushes…
Helped by the new Sportback variant, the Audi Q3 breaks into the UK Top 30 in 2020. A full Top 130 UK models ranking is now available for the January-April 2020 period, allowing us a much more detail look at this market. The Range Rover Evoque (#12) finds itself on…
The Toyota Yaris repeats at #1 in the regular car charts. After losing -28.6% in April, in May the Japanese new vehicle market truly bares the brunt of the COVID-19 State of Emergency that was only lifted in all regions on May 25, as well as the associated factory closures. Sales…
The U.S. recovery is hampered by absent fleet sales, notably rental cars. U.S. new light vehicle sales are estimated to fall -33% year-on-year in May to 1.065.000 units according Edmunds, ALG and Cox Automotive, compared to a revised -50% and 668.000 in April. This pulls the year-to-date tally down -24.2%…
The Lexus NX ranks #10 in Taiwan in May and year-to-date. New car sales in Taiwan are off -11.4% year-on-year in May to 33.528 units, a similar drop as in April (-11.1%) which tilts the year-to-date tally into negative at -0.2% to 168.396. Toyota (-0.8%) only edges down to hold…
Toyota Corolla sales are up 77.3% in Mexico in April. As we predicted last month, the Mexican new car market crumbles under the weight of the coronavirus crisis in April at -64.5% year-on-year to 34.903 registrations, pulling the year-to-date volume down -23.1% to 331.580 units. As it is the case in…
Mercedes is the only gainer in the Top 13 and ranks 6th in April. With COVID-19 cases soaring from just 669 as of March 31 to 10.861 as of April 30 and 19.706 as of May 20, Ukraine was under strict lockdown measures for all of April, with the quarantine…
Without heavy truck sales, the Chinese market would still be down in April. New vehicle wholesales in China have bounced back even stronger than preliminary data suggested in April, up 4.4% year-on-year to 2.07 million units, bringing the year-to-date tally down -31.1% to 5.761.000 units. After February deliveries collapsed -79.1%…
The Kia Soluto hits a record 5th place in Vietnam in April. Vietnam has been one of the only south east Asian countries (alongside Taiwan) to be unscathed by the coronavirus pandemic thanks to a fast and strict response, with only 288 cases and no deaths reported as of May…
BMW manages to contain its loss to -49.9% in Germany in April. 12/05 update: Now with Top 50 brands, Top 300 All-models and Top 285 private sales. Under a national COVID-19 curfew since March 22 and up until April 20 when showrooms around the country started reopening, German new car…
Mercedes holds 29% of the Singaporean market in April. After being somewhat muted throughout March, new COVID-19 cases dramatically flared up in Singapore in April, going from 926 as of March 31 to 16.169 as of April 30 and 23.787 at the time of writing. Consequently, a much stricter set of…
The Toyota Yaris is the best-selling regular car in Japan in April. As we anticipated in our March 2020 update, April is the month the coronavirus pandemic caught up with Japan and its new car market, with the first state of emergency in Japan history declared for 6 provinces on…
The Chevrolet Onix is the best-selling vehicle in Colombia in April. 8/06 update: Now with Top 70 All-models. Colombia has been under a strict national lockdown since March 20, originally scheduled to last until April 12, but extended multiple times since, to April 27, May 11 and May 25. All…