The VW Polo Vivo is a facelifted previous generation VW Polo * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * A very solid year for new car sales in South Africa: 2012 is up a healthy 9% on 2011 to 623,914 registrations. If in 2011 the…
VW Jetta * See the Top 286 all-models ranking by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * It is now a fact: the Ford Focus is the most popular Passenger Car in China, topping the monthly ranking by far for the 5th month in a…
The 2nd generation Dacia Logan should help it increase its market share in 2013... * See the Top 85 best-selling models and Top 50 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The fall continues for the Romanian new car market: after hitting an all-time high of 343,080 registrations in 2008,…
Mercedes B-Class * NOW UPDATED with the Top 50 All-brands ranking + Top 300 models! See title * There is now a Top 364 All-models ranking available here with splits between Golf/Golf Plus and many others In a gloomy European context, German new car sales have remained very solid in 2012,…
Mini Countryman * See the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 45 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Sales of new imported Passenger Cars are up a very healthy 15% year-on-year to 300,594 registrations in 2012, breaking the 300,000 annual unit-barrier for the first time in 15 years! As it…
VW Up! * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * Every quarter we have access to sales of imported vehicles in Japan, reported by a different organisation, the Japan Automobile Importers Association. Note that from now…
VW Tiguan * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Austrian new car market is down 6% year-on-year in 2012 to 336,010 registrations, and the most popular model in the country this year is familiar: the VW Golf is in the lead for potentially…
Fiat 500 * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * Danish new car sales are down a worrying 30% year-on-year in December, however the Full Year 2012 still reaches a record 170,763 units, up 0.4% on…
Citroen C3 * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The freefall continues for new car sales in Greece: after dropping by 17% in 2009, 36% in 2010 and 31% in 2011, it is down 40% this year to 58,476 registrations, the weakest annual result since…
Peugeot 208 * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * We have unfortunately become accustomed to month after month of deep decline for the Greek new car market, and December is no different: down 34% year-on-year…
Nissan Qashqai * See the Top 10 best-selling models and Top 43 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The UK new car market is the only one in Europe's Top 5 to gain ground year-on-year in 2012, up a shiny 5% to 2,044,609 registrations, the highest annual tally since 2008.…
BMW 1 Series * See the Top 308 All-models ranking and Top 50 All-brands by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * Whereas the German new car market had held remarkably well so far this year in a depressed European context, in December it…
Norwegian sales of VW Tiguan are up 46% in 2012 * NOW UPDATED with the Top 277 All-models ranking! Click on title to see, thanks thanks Øystein * Because of a horrendous month of December (-19%), new car sales in Norway finish the year down 0.3% to 137,967 registrations. The VW…
Volvo V70 * NOW UPDATED with the Top 100 best-selling models! Click on title to see, thanks Øystein * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * New car sales in Norway are down a painful 19% year-on-year in December to 9,369 registrations, bringing the Full Year 2012 total into negative…
Hyundai i30 May 2020 update: Now with the Top 340 All-models. The Czech new car market is up just 0.4% in 2012 to a record 174,009 registrations, and the Top 2 models stay unchanged for the 4th consecutive year. The Skoda Octavia remains the most popular model in the country…