Toyota Innova The Filipino car market is back in relative good shape over the period, passing the 100,000 registrations mark in 2007 for the first time in 10 years at 117,903 units. These are Toyota's best years in the country: at 38.4% share in 2006 and 38.2% but a record…
The New Zealand car market is euphoric this year: with 102,468 registrations, it is up 33% over 2006! The Holden Commodore increases its margin over the Toyota Corolla even though its share slips from 7% to 5.9%. The Corolla goes from 6.9% to 5%. The Ford Falcon stays 3rd but…
#2 in 2006, the 2001 Mitsubishi Lancer manages to grab the top spot in the 2007 Singaporean best selling cars ranking, thanks to aggressive price promotions. The Toyota Corolla Altis drops to 2nd spot, whereas the new generation Honda Civic lands in 3rd position.
Holden Commodore * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * 2007 is the very first year Australians purchased more than 1 million new cars: with 1,049,982 registrations the market is up 9% over 2006. The Holden Commodore is the best selling car in Australia 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…
Toyota Innova Launched in January 2006 to replace the best seller Zace, the Toyota Innova is an instant hit in Vietnam and takes an out-of-this world share of the market at over 23% for its first year! The Innova sells 9,934 units over the full year, a new record for…
Chevrolet holds 15% of the Saudi new car market in 2006. It's another record for the Saudi new light vehicle market at 445,856 units in 2006, up 13.3% on the year prior. Toyota (+8.8%) doesn't quite benefit from the sales growth and loses share to 27.9%. Chevrolet on the other…
Chevrolet TFR The Egyptian car market is up 41% this year at 170,614 units. If the best-seller doesn't change - still the Chevrolet TFR Pickup at 14,305 sales and 8.4%, the rest of the Top 5 is reshuffled. Toyota Yaris The Hyundai Verna is up 7 spots, going from 3.8%…
Toyota Corolla Altis in Singapore October 2007 ( I took the picture during one of my trips there) In 2006 the Toyota Corolla Altis has a comfortable margin on top of Singaporean car sales with 10,910 registrations and 11% of the market. The Mitsubishi Lancer is #2 at 6.8% followed…
Holden Commodore VE * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * In 2006, car sales drop by 2% in Australia to 962,666 units, and larger models suffered greatly from the petrol price surge. The Holden Commodore needed the help of its new VE generation to…
More than 150.000 Isuzu D-Max were sold in Thailand in 2005, a record. Half a decade after the financial crisis that annihilated the market, Thai new vehicle sales finally return to pre-crisis levels with 2003 volumes up 28.9% to 518.440, only the third half-million+ annual result in Thai history after…
Toyota Corolla * See the Top 40 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * 16,680 new cars were registered in Latvia in 2005, up a huge 48% on 2004 and the Toyota Corolla is by far the best-selling model in the country with 811 sales and a very solid…
The Caprice is Chevrolet's best-selling car in Saudi Arabia over the period. New car sales in Saudi Arabia continue to gallop ahead with 2004 volumes up 14.8% year-on-year to a record 341,477 units. Toyota (+5.4%) trails the market but still lodges a splendid 34.9% share. It is followed this year…
Toyota Zace * Many thanks to Ben Wyn for the info! * In 2003, the Toyota Zace is the best selling car in Vietnam in a market totaling 42,557 units. Its stays leader in 2004 and 2005, until its replacement by the Toyota Innova in January 2006. In 2005 the…