Renault Megane * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Car sales in the Netherlands are down 4% in May to 47,628 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 255,177 units, down 8% on 2011. Already up 46 spots last month to #6, the Renault Megane…
Renault Megane * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Before I can share with you an entire French Top 100 for the month of May, here is an appetiser: the Top 10 up to May 28. Car sales are down just 1% to 127,447…
Peugeot 508 * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Italian consumers are among the last in the world with the Swedish and Slovaks to still be extremely keen of Station Wagons (SW), which is why I keep separating this format each month in Italy. However like in April,…
Renault Megane * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Still no sign of recovery for the Spanish car market: sales are down 8% year-on-year in May to 72,514 registrations, the second worst month of May in the last 20 years after the 71,168 units…
Ford Focus * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Irish car sales are wobbly again in May at -18% year-on-year to 7,698 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 59,946 units, down 9% on 2011. For the first time since January, the Ford Focus is…
Peugeot 208 * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Tuga * The Portuguese car market is not improving with sales down 42% year-on-year in April at 8,400, bringing the year-to-date total to 31,932 units, down 47%. For the first time since 1985,…
Suzuki Swift This is our second monthly World round up after March 2012, and if last month the focus was on the Toyota Prius family and its huge success in the US and Japan, April takes us to India where we witness a historical change... Don't get me wrong, the Prius is…
Peugeot 208 * NOW UPDATED with actuals! See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The French car market significantly slows down its fall in April at just -1.6% year-on-year to 166,632 registrations, now that the comparison with a scrappage scheme-boosted Q1 2011 is over. The…
Peugeot Pars * See the Top 10 most produced models by clicking on the title! * In the Iranian calendar the month of April 2012 roughly corresponds to Farvardin, the first month of the new year 1391. As Peugeot slowly winds down after stopping the importation of CKD kits under…
BMW 3 Series * NOW UPDATED AGAIN with the Top 308 best-selling models! Click on title to see * Car sales in Germany are up a solid 3% year-on-year in April at 274,066 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 1,047,702 units, up 2% on 2011. No surprise in pole position: the…
Kia Rio * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Car sales in Slovenia continue to slide down at -13% year-on-year in April to 4,362 units, bringing the year-to-date total to 18,687 registrations, down 14% on 2011. For the first time this year, two Renaults…
VW Up! Picture by Ciprian Mihai, all rights reserved. * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Dutch car market is down 14% year-on-year in April to 41,178 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 207,673 units, down 9% on 2011. For the first time…
BMW 1 Series * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Tuga * New car sales in Portugal are still in hell, down 49% year-on-year to 9,622 registrations and 48% year-to-date at 23,511 units. To put things into perspective, let's notice that the…
VW Polo * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Slovenian car sales are not having the best of time in this start of 2012, down 12% year-on-year to 5,186 registrations, with the first Quarter of 2012 down 14% at 14,325 units. The Renault Clio…
Skoda Fabia * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Croatian car market is down slightly year-on-year in March at 3,779 registrations and -1%, bringing the year-to-date total to 10,832 units, up 3% on 2011. Coming out of nowhere (#21 in February), the Skoda…