Renault is the best-selling carmaker in Belgium in June. Now updated with the Top 10 models. Belgian new car registrations stumble down -11% year-on-year in June to 50.044 units, leading to a First Half tally down -6.3% to 310.489. Renault (+8.2%) goes against the grain with a very satisfying uptick enabling…
Audi holds 10.2% of the Luxembourg market in June. Now updated with the Top 10 models. The Luxembourg new car market dives down -7.6% in June to 5.199 units, yet the year-to-date tally remains in positive at +1.5% to 31.120 registrations. Volkswagen (13.9%) remains the most popular carmaker in the…
Fiat Tipo sales are down -53.4% at home in July despite a recent facelift. New registrations in Italy edge down just -0.3% year-on-year in June to 153.535 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -3.3% to 1.240.642. As we have observed in both France and Spain already, this is actually a…
The Dacia Sandero is the best-selling vehicle in Spain for the third time in 2019. New car sales in Spain drop -8.3% year-on-year in July to 121.012 registrations, leading to a year-to-date tally down -3.8% to 836.352. However as it is the case in France, this is in fact a…
The Audi e-Tron and Tesla Model 3 are shaping up to be the heroes of 2019 in Norway. The Norwegian new car market edges down -4.5% year-on-year in July to 9.178 registrations, meaning the year-to-date tally is now up just 1.2% at 87.387. After the traditional end-of-quarter freak surge by…
The Toyota Corolla is the best-selling vehicle in Finland in July. Even though it remains in negative, the Finnish new car market slows down its decline further in July to just -4.6% to 9.018 registrations, meaning the year-to-date volume is now down -12.5% to 68.250. Toyota (+27.9%) is completely and…
The Dacia Duster is up 62.4% in a market down -3.8%. 31/07/2019 update: Now with the Top 180 best-selling models. New car sales in Italy drop -3.8% over the First Half of 2018 to 1.086.224 units when stable private and rental sales can't compensate for freefalling company sales. Private sales…
The Toyota Hilux breaks the 10% share milestone for the first time in South Africa. The South African new vehicle market skids down -1.6% year-on-year in June to 45.939 registrations, meaning the year-to-date tally is now down -3.7% to 257.610. Toyota (+3.3%) remains head and shoulders above the competition with…
Proton sales are up 23.4% in a market down -29.4%. In June the Malaysia new vehicle market suffers from an artificially high comparison base in June 2018 when the GST was removed and drops a heavy -29.4% year-on-year to 45.526 units, yet the H1 tally is in positive at +2.3% to…
The first generation Renault Duster is still on sale in Colombia. New vehicle sales in Colombia leap up 6.4% year-on-year in June to 19.489 units, lifting the year-to-date tally up 2.4% to 116.210. Renault (+30.7%) shows exceptional strength to cement its brand leadership at 24.4% share, almost 10 percentage points…
Honda sales gain 15.1% in a declining market. New vehicle sales in Thailand hit the brakes in June at -2.1% year-on-year to 86.048 units, understood to be the first year-on-year decline in the country since December 2016, that's over 2.5 years ago. Thanks to a strong first few months this…
The Tacoma is one of Toyota's best-sellers in Puerto Rico. New car sales in Puerto Rico gain 3.7% year-on-year over the First Half of 2019 to 52.536 units. Brand leader Toyota (+13.9%) almost quadruples the market growth to hit 28.7% share, while #2 Hyundai (+22.5%) does even better to reach…
Mitsubishi sales soar 62.9% year-on-year in Singapore. New car sales in Singapore implode -41.1% year-on-year in June to just 6.158 units, pulling the year-to-date volume down -8.1% to 39.868. Honda (-42.1%) follows the market and remains easily on top with 25.1% share vs. 16.7% for Toyota (-58%) in absolute perdition.…
Honda manages to swim upstream in China, and the facelifted XR-V will continue the trend in H2. It's a Semester to forget for new light vehicle wholesales in China, down a ghastly -12.4% year-on-year over the First Half of 2019 to 12.323.000 units. This cancels four years of growth, represents…
The Toyota RAV4 scores a third straight double-digit gain in June. It's a 16th consecutive month of year-on-year decline in Canada where the automotive market is sinking ever deeper into recession with June deliveries down -9.5% year-on-year to just 182.279 units, pulling the First Half 2019 tally down -4.8% to…