The South African market is up an impressive 22% in October with 44,055 registrations, and the #1 spot goes to the VW Polo Vivo, a restyled old gen Polo, with 2,576 sales and 5.8% of the market. The new Polo can only dream of this success: it is only 14th…
This year the German market is taking a hit due to the phasing out of the scrappage scheme. September is at -18% vs. 09 (259,748 sales) and the market is at -27% over the first 9 months of the year. No surprise, the VW Golf leads the pack, as it…
BMW 5 Series It's very rare to have access to car sales results in Luxembourg (last time I managed to do so was 3 years ago!) so let's enjoy them while we got them! No model detail is available but the market is pretty dynamic with 20.189 sales in 8…
Hyundai Accent Era * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Turkish car market is booming in 2009, up 21% to 369,819 registrations. After many years of Renault domination, the Hyundai Accent Era, perhaps boosted by end-of-life price readjustments, is a distant leader in…
VW Golf 6 * See the Top 346 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Florian * At 3,090,040 registrations this year, down 2%, German new car sales are at their lowest since the reunification... The VW Golf is slowing getting itself out of the weakest period of the…
* See the Top 100 best selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at the end of the post * The main event in 2008 in the Swiss car market is the constant progression of the Skoda Octavia which is starting to threaten the multi-decade-long leadership of the VW Golf...…
Lada 2105 * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks to Anton for the tip * The Russian car market is up 20% year-on-year to reach a record 2,344,785 units in 2007, its first time above 2m annual sales. The Lada 2104-7 stays in pole position…
VW Golf * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Florian * Car sales are down 9% this year in Germany at 3,148,163 registrations. The VW Golf continues to wobble its way along, stuck at 4.8% share and a second lowest-ever 150,133 units…
Suzuki Swift * See the Top 40 All-brands and Top 10 models by clicking on the title * New car sales in Hungary are down 5.8% year-on-year in 2007 to 176.978 units. Suzuki opened a factory in Hungary in 1991 and has been the best-selling carmaker in the country for…
The Ford Focus is the best-selling foreign nameplate in Russia in 2006. * See the Top 63 All-brands and Top 320 All-models by clicking on the title * The Russian new car market enjoys a 4th consecutive all-time record year in 2006, up a fantastic 19.7% year-on-year to 1.953.998 registrations. As it…
The Toyota Hilux is the best-selling vehicle in Thailand in 2006. After 6 years of double-digit gains lifting the market from record lows in 1998 to record highs in both 2004 and 2005, the Thailand new vehicle market takes a breather in 2006 at -3.8% to a still very high…
Ford Focus * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Complete reshuffle atop the models ranking in Cyprus this year: the Ford Focus gains 7 spots and no less than 144% on 2005 to land quite comfortably in pole position with 1,249 sales. It is…
The Ford Focus is the best-selling vehicle in Spain for the 2nd time. The Spanish car market is up 7% this year to a record 1,634,595 registrations according to Aniacam, down -1.8% to 1.469.149 according to our sources (+409.694 LCVs). For the first time since 1995 and only the second…
Fiat Punto * See the Top 40 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Car sales in Italy are stable in 2005 at 2,237,456 registrations (-1%). Big event in 2005: the Fiat Punto is replaced by the Grande Punto in September and together the two models sell 173,632 units…
Ford Transit * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The European Light Commercial Vehicle market is up 3% during the period to 2,112,409 units in 2005. The Ford Transit holds the pole position both years but sees its market slip down from 6.6% in…