The Ford Puma is #1 in England and Wales. Thanks to SMMT we can share with you the Top 10 best-sellers for each UK nation in March. Keep in mind this is a zoom in by nation, all sales figures are already included in the April 2023 UK update. This month Scotland…
Audi ends the month just 379 units below Volkswagen, with the A3 hitting a ranking record. It's a 9th consecutive month of year-on-year gains for the UK market in April at +11.6% to 132,990 sales. We are still 17.4% off the 161,064 units of pre-pandemic April 2019. So far this year,…
The Ford Ranger is the best-selling vehicle in Australia so far in 2023. 5/05 update: Now with Top 280 All models ranking The Australian new vehicle market continues to be plagued by shipping bottlenecks due to biosecurity issues on car-carrying ships, but also ballooning delivery delays reaching 3 to 4…
Lexus sales are up 93.2% year-on-year in April. New light vehicle sales in Taiwan gain 8.4% year-on-year in April to 38,231, bringing the year-to-date tally up 7.4% to 149,999. Toyota (-7.1%) can't surf on the overall growth but stays distant leader in the brands charts with 26.4% share vs. 27%…
The Jeep Avenger scores its first Top 50 finish, directly landing at #21. The Italian new car market continues to bounce back up after a dreadful 2022, with April sales up 29.2% year-on-year to 125,805 units. Keep in mind April 2022 crashed -33% over the prior year. The year-to-date volume is…
The MG ZS cracks the Spanish Top 10 for the first time. After climbing 51.4% in January, 19.2% in February and 66.1% in March, new car sales in Spain markedly slow down their growth in April at just +8.2% year-on-year to 74,749 units. This is almost 40% below the 123,833 registrations…
The Tesla Model Y has sold almost 72,000 units in three months in Europe. 27/04 update: Now with Top 420 All models 24/04 update: Now with Top 75 All brands According to data by ACEA, the European new car market (EU+EFTA+UK) is up by a fantastic 26.1% in March to…
Dodge Charger sales are up 4-fold year-on-year in March. 118,801 new vehicles joined Mexican roads in March, another solid 24.8% year-on-year improvement leading to a Q1 2023 volume up 24.4% to 315,126 units. Nissan (+34.7%) easily beats its "home" market (the only one in the world where the brand is…
The Tesla Model Y is up to 4th place overall in March. 19/04 update: Now with Top 50 All brands and Top 290 All models. New car sales in France rally back up 24.2% year-on-year in March to 182,713 units, leading to a first quarter tally up 15.2% to 420,888.…
The MG 3 is the second best-selling vehicle in New Caledonia in March. New Caledonia is a French archipelago located north east of Australia. New light vehicles there are down a painful -20.8% year-on-year in March, leading to a year-to-date volume down -11.1% to 1,770. Toyota (-33.3%) continues to lead the…
Austria is virtually the last country in the world where the Ford Galaxy is successful. A year ago in March 2022, sales of new cars in Austria fell -30.1% on the year prior. This month they bounce back 27.4% to 26,307, meaning they haven't yet returned to March 2021 levels. The…
The Tesla Model Y is the most popular vehicle in Slovenia in March. New car sales in Slovenia advance 13.9% year-on-year in March to 5,271 units, however March 2022 was off -34.5% on the year prior, so we are still evolving at historically low levels. Year-to-date, volumes are up just…
The VW T-Roc is the most popular vehicle in Germany in March. New car sales in Germany finally get some traction in March at +16.6% year-on-year to 281,361 units. However, dampening this enthusiasm is the fact that March 2022 was off a painful -17.5% on the year prior, so we are not…
The new XUV400 EV helps Mahindra reach new heights in India. It's a third consecutive record month for car wholesales in India with March volumes up 4.5% year-on-year to 335,888 units, an all time high for the month of March. The Q1 volume is up 10.6% to 1,015,938, logically a…
The Tesla Model Y breaks all records in March. The Norwegian new car market is up 19.3% year-on-year in March to 19,366 units, meaning the Q1 volume is off -11.4% to 28,665. Sales of BEVs climb 20.2% to 16,811 or a record 86.8% share, the previous best being 85.6% share one…