Nissan X-Trail is up 589% in Turkey in 2014 thanks to the new model. * See the Turkey Full Year 2014 Top 263 All-models ranking here * I can now share with you All-models and all-LCV rankings for Turkey, along with the All-brands ranking published some time ago. We learn…
The new generation propels the Mazda2 up to #8 in Switzerland this month. * See the Top 35 brands and Top 328 All-models by clicking on the title * Amidst the stock market turmoil created by the sudden increase in value of the swiss franc against the euro (+23% on…
Dacia Duster * See the Top 35 All-brands and Top 192 All-models by clicking on the title * After gaining an encouraging 22% in 2014, the Romanian new car market starts 2015 with the brakes on: down 3% in January to 4,978 registrations. Home brand Dacia is up a trend-bucking 5%…
Opel Corsa * See the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 40 brands by clicking on the title * New car sales in Austria are down 2% year-on-year in January to 23,427 registrations, but still dominated head-and-shoulders by the Volkswagen Group: the Volkswagen brand holds 16.9% of the market and…
Mercedes is the most popular brand in Singapore in January. * See the Top 35 All-brands by clicking on the title * Now that certificates of entitlement (COE - essentially the right to drive in Singapore) are back to more reasonable prices, the Singaporean market returns to its level of…
Ford Fiesta * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title * Data provided by SEMO Cyprus and analysed by INNOSOFT bring to light a very dynamic start of the year for new car sales in Cyprus: up 15% year-on-year in January to 846 registrations. Leader in 2012 and 2013 but down to #3…
The Mercedes E-Class is the best-selling foreign model in South Korea in 2014... See the Full Year 2014 Top 200 All-models and Top 30 All-brands here For the first time on BSCB I can share with you exclusive Top 200 All-models and Top 30 All-brands rankings for South Korea including…
The Mercedes B-Class is still far above the BMW 2 Series Active Tourer for now. * See the Top 50 brands and Top 271 models by clicking on the title * New car sales start the year in positive in Germany at +3% in January to 211.337 registrations. Market leader Volkswagen is particularly…
Audi S3 Audi and Mercedes managed a coup for the first month of 2015, both overtaking BMW, the traditional luxury sales leader, worldwide. Thanks to sales up 10% year-on-year, Audi takes the lead of luxury brands with 137,700 sales worldwide, followed by the Mercedes brand at 125,865 deliveries (up 14%)…
Seat Leon * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title * As an appetiser for overall German new car registrations, I give you German Private Sales data for January 2015. Germany characterises itself by an exceptionally low Private Sales (PS) ratio in general, but in January…
Mercedes GLA * See the Top 40 All-brands and Top 188 All-models by clicking on the title * New car sales in Hong Kong are up 7% year-on-year to 4,410 registrations, and if Toyota dominates the brand ranking as always with 21.3% share, Mercedes is particularly strong this month at 13.8%,…
2nd shock in 3 months: the Hyundai Solaris is the best-selling car in Russia in January. * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 53 All-brands by clicking on the title * Russian customers 'rushed' to purchase 2014 models in December (+2%) to avoid the inflation-induced price increase in…
The Hyundai i20 ranks 10th in Northern Ireland. * See the Top 10 best-selling models in each nation by clicking on the title * Thanks to SMMT, now that we have explored the UK market as a whole for January, as is the tradition on BSCB we zoom in on the…
The Chevrolet Onix has now outsold the VW Gol during 4 of the past 5 months. * See the Top 20 best-selling brands and Top 130 models by clicking on the title * After gaining 5% year-on-year in December, new car sales in Brazil are back into ugly, negative territory…
Nissan Qashqai * See the Top 10 best-selling models and Top 40 brands by clicking on the title * Building on a fantastic 2014 when the market rose to its highest level in a decade, January new car sales in the UK are up a further 7% to 164,856 registrations,…