The Hyundai Kona is the best-selling new car in Saudi Arabia over the period. As we described at length in our latest Saudi Arabia update, the arrival of women on the Saudi new car market has kicked sales into gear after years of deep decline. H1 2019 volumes are up…
Toyota Land Cruiser sales are up 12.1% so far in 2019 in Bahrain. The Bahraini new car market skids down a worrying -14.3% year-on-year over the First Half of 2019 to 14.772 sales. Both Toyota (-18.8%) and Nissan (-22.4%) fall faster than the market whereas Hyundai (+4.5%) posts a sturdy…
Roewe retail sales more than double year-on-year in June. There is now a May 2019 Retail sales article here. Up 41.7% year-on-year, retail sales in China this month offer us the starkest possible contrast with wholesales figures, down -9.6%. Before Stage 6 emissions standards come into place in two-thirds of…
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…
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 new Aion S EV helps GAC sales up 28% in a market down -9.6%. The loop is looped: with a -9.6% year-on-year decline in June, the Chinese wholesales market has now been down for a full year or 12 consecutive months, something that hadn't happened in at least 30…
The Kia Cerato is up to a record 6th place in June. This article has been updated with the Top 275 All-models. The end of the tunnel is nowhere near in sight for Australian new vehicle sales, hit by a 15th consecutive month of decline in June at -9.6% to…
The Toyota Corolla is the best-selling vehicle in Israel so far in 2019. Thanks to our partnership with cartube.co.il, we can share with you today complete models and brands data for Israel in June and H1. New car sales in the country continue to struggle: after falling -17.1% in May they…
Chevrolet is up 9% in a market down -14.4%. Now with the Top 25 models. The May 2019 article has now been updated with the Top 25 models. The slowdown is getting worse in Chile with new light vehicle sales in decline for the 5th straight month in June, freefalling…
Mercedes A-Class sales are up 39.5% year-on-year in the UK. 15/12/2019 update: Now with the Top 180 models. Continuing Brexit uncertainty crippling business and consumer morale as well as the auto industry itself as a round of manufacturers have announced they would leave the UK in the case of a…
The Toyota Yaris is up to a record 7th place in the UK in June. It's a 4th consecutive month of decline for UK new car sales at -4.9% year-on-year in June to 223.421 units, the lowest score for the month since 2014. Private sales match the market at -4.8%…
BMW sales surge 15.1% year-on-year in Europe in May. This article has been updated with the Top 55 brands and Top 355 models. Preliminary figures from ACEA covering the European Union and EFTA - 30 markets show a first uptick in 9 months at a tiny +0.04% to 1.443.708 units vs.…
Mazda2 sales soar 60.3% year-on-year in Thailand this month. The Thai new light vehicle market soars 8.7% year-on-year in April to 86.076 units, marking 20 consecutive months of 8% year-on-year gains or more. The year-to-date tally is now up 10.5% to 349.625 sales. At opposite ends of the Top 5…
The lift of the ban on driver's licences for Saudi women has boosted new car sales spectacularly this year. Picture Saudi Information Ministry via AP. The time has finally come! After imploding 53.2% between 2015 and 2018, including a painful 23.4% last year, new light vehicle sales in Saudi Arabia have bottomed…
The Toyota Land Cruiser cements its domination of the Qatari market. After three consecutive years of double-digit losses, new car sales in Qatar continue to slow down their fall but remain in negative territory so far this year at -2.7% to 19.675 units over the first 5 months of the…