2013 VW Golf: the favourite of Albanian consumers? * See the entire article by clicking on the title! * We stay in the Balkan area to go to Albania, which I have left alone for almost two years simply because official sales data is inexistent. With the knowledge of the…
Audi A5 * See the Top 38 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! * The Singaporean new car market is down a painful 49% year-on-year in February to just 1,354 registrations, potentially disturbed by the Lunar New Year celebrations. Mercedes remains the most popular brand in the country but…
Renault Megane * NOW UPDATED with the Top 50 models and Top 40 All-brands! Click on title to see * Very difficult year for new car sales in Portugal, down 38% on 2011 which was already down 31% on 2010... At a total 95,290 registrations, this is the first time since…
BMW 5 Series. Picture by Daryl Chapman, all rights reserved. * See the Top 150 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * With 3,084 new vehicles sold in Hong Kong in February, the total market now stands at 6,877 units year-to-date. #2 last month and #3 over the Full Year…
Should Fiat/Chrysler be happy about the Dodge Dart ranking #50 so far in 2013? * See the Top 263 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Now that we have gone through February data in detail, it's time to bring back the US year-to-date summaries. After two months, the…
Hyundai sales are up 40% year-on-year in February in Belgium. * See the Top 38 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! * Excellent hold of the Belgian new car market in February given the overall depressed context the European market has fallen into: up 4% year-on-year to 45,400 registrations.…
Renault Twingo * See the Top 40 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to JKLN * After going through overall German sales for February, let's now have a look at what cars German consumers really like (and not rental companies or fleet)... As usual it is a very…
Hyundai i30 * See the Top 274 best-selling models and Top 50 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The German new car market is down a rather painful 11% year-on-year in February to 200,683 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 392,773 units, down 10% on 2012. The Top 5 most…
VW Golf * NOW UPDATED with actuals! Click on title to see the Top 50 models and All-brands * No recovery in sight for the Italian new car market, and far from it. As the country was preparing for national elections, at 109,213 registrations new car sales are down 17% on February 2012…
Nissan Juke Nismo * See the Top 10 best-selling models and Top 42 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Completely oblivious to the surrounding crisis that has engulfed the European car market, new car sales in the UK celebrate 12 consecutive months of year-on-year growth in February: up 8% to…
Mazda6 * See the Top 212 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * Thanks to Ran from www.cartube.co.il we now have our monthly rendezvous with the Israeli new car market. In February, new car sales in Israel are down 8% year-on-year to 16,879 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 39,418 units,…
The new Symbol should enable Renault to stay on top in 2013. * See the Top 30 best-selling brands by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Alexandra * Car sales data for Tunisia is very rare to come across but thanks to Alexandra I am able to share with…
2013 Toyota RAV4 * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 6 brands by clicking on the title! * Traditionally weaker due to Lunar New Year celebrations, February new car sales in Taiwan are down 8% year-on-year to 20,816 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 62,815 or... 5 units…
Renault Clio (RS model shown) * See the Top 80 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Light Commercial Vehicle market is down 12% year-on-year in France in February to 29,880 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 59,542 units, down 11% on 2012. Surprise on top: boosted by…
VW Polo * See the Top 200 best-selling models and Top 47 All-brands by clicking on the title! * At 58,384 registrations, Spanish new car sales are down 10% year-on-year to reach their lowest February score in over 20 years. Looks like we are in for one more depressed year in…