Toyota is the best-selling carmaker in Bulgaria in February. New car sales in Bulgaria fall -17% year-on-year in February to 2.063 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -18.6% to 4.248 sales. Toyota (-3.4%) takes control of the brands ranking both for the month and year-to-date with 12.5% share each…
The Skoda Octavia is the #1 vehicle in Switzerland for the 4th year running. Discover 50 years worth of Switzerland Historical Data here. The Swiss new car market drops -24% year-on-year in 2020 to 236.828 registrations. Volkswagen (-23.3%) roughly follows the market evolution to remain the favourite carmaker in the…
The Jeep Renegade is the best-selling vehicle in Cyprus in January. According to our Cyprus partners SEMO Cyprus and INNOSOFT, the new car market is down -27.9% year-on-year in January to 841 units. Being a small market, the models ranking is very volatile and reshuffled virtually each month. In January the…
The Toyota Yaris holds 7.2% of the Greek new car market in January. Picture newsauto.gr The Greek new car market starts the year with a -20.6% year-on-year fall in January to 7.766 registrations. Atop the brands ranking, Toyota (-14%) and Peugeot (-17%) post solid holds in context, leading to 16.3% and…
The Toyota RAV4 is the best-selling vehicle in Norway in January. Picture finansavisen.no December 2020 was the biggest month in Norwegian history as manufacturers rushed registrations to lower their average CO2 emissions for the year and avoid or lower fines. The share of electrified vehicles hit a record 92.5% then…
The Seat Leon outsells the VW Golf in Austria this month. Picture autofilou.at It's a disastrous start of the year for Austrian new car registrations at -38.4% year-on-year to 14.133 units as renewed lockdowns hamper sales. The Top 5 brands all outpace the market, starting with Volkswagen (-27.7%) up to…
BMW holds a record 11.8% of the Belgian market in January. New car sales in Belgium skid down -27.2% year-on-year in January to 37.735 units. BMW (-17.3%) reclaims the brands top spot and smashes its share record to 11.8%, eclipsing the 10.5% it hit last November. Volkswagen (-31.6%) struggles and…
Mercedes is the #1 brand in Luxembourg for the 5th month running. The Luxembourg new car market drops -13.2% year-on-year to 3.747 units in January, a much better hold than the European average of -25.7%. Mercedes (-4.6%) is the most popular carmaker in the country for the 5th month in…
The Volvo XC40 is the #1 vehicle in the Netherlands in January. Picture dagelijksauto.nl New car sales in the Netherlands are down -20% year-on-year in January to 35.193 units. Volkswagen (-45.9%) more than doubles the market fall a very high year-ago comparison base, yet the brand drops to 10.3% share vs.…
The Ford Puma is up to a record 2nd place overall in Romania in January. The Romanian new car market is the worst performing in Europe in January at -51.9% year-on-year to just 6.004 registrations. This appears to be mainly linked to the sales implosion of local behemoth Dacia (-74.4%) hitting its…
The Mercedes GLB is inside the Czech Top 30 in January. New car sales in the Czech Republic drop -22.7% year-on-year to 14.794 registrations in January. Homegrown brand leader Skoda (-30.8%) falls faster than the market to 38.7% but January 2020 was a particularly high comparison base as it hit…
The Peugeot 2008 is the best-selling vehicle in Portugal in January. The Portuguese new car market sinks -30.5% year-on-year in January to just 10.029 units. Peugeot (-15.6%) and Mercedes (-16.3%) both manage to roughly cut the market drop rate in two to take the lead of the brands ranking while…
The new Opel Mokka has landed in Germany. Lockdown measures and associated dealership closures aimed at stemming the winter wave of Covid-19 pull the German market down a harsh -31.1% to 169.754 units vs. 246.300 a year ago which was already down -7.3% on the year prior. Brand leader Volkswagen (-29.9%)…
The Kia Sportage is up to a record 2nd place in January. Picture autoexpress.co.uk A second national lockdown means the UK new car market freefalls -39.5% year-on-year in January to just 90.249 units, a loss of almost 60.000 sales. This is the weakest January volume since 1970 (84.807). Private sales drop…
MG ZS sales are up 327.6% year-on-year in January. Now updated with the Top 272 All-models. The Australian new vehicle market registers a third consecutive month of double-digit year-on-year gains in January at +11.1% to 79.666 units as dealers continue to fulfil back orders accumulated during the pandemic, customers are…