Dacia Duster * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 30 brands by clicking on the title! * First figures for the full month of April are starting to trickle down and for once we start with Ireland. The Irish new car market is down 9% year-on-year to 6,121 registrations,…
Honda Jazz * See the Top 100 best-selling models and Top 38 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The Swiss new car market is down 12% year-on-year in March to 28,554 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 71,751 units, down 9% on 2012. Last month I was wondering whether the…
Nissan Qashqai * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 30 brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Austria are down a horrid 18% year-on-year in March to 31,067 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 80,024 units, down 10% on 2012. Two Volkswagens dominate the ranking…
2013 Mercedes E-Class * See the Top 40 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to JKLN * As is now the tradition, after going through overall German sales for March, let’s now have a look at the private sales (PS) ranking. As usual it paints a very different picture.…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 280 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * That's it. The heavyweight of European new car sales is now officially in recession: the German market is down a horrid 17% year-on-year in March to 281,184 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 673,957 units,…
Mazda CX-5 * NOW UPDATED with the Top 50 best-selling models/Top 10 brands! Click on title to see * Difficult month for new car sales in Norway, down 18% year-on-year in March to 10,735 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 33,696 units, now in negative compared to 2012 at -3%. In…
Volvo V40 * See the Top 60 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * 2013 is shaping up to be a pretty average year for new car sales in Sweden, as it is the case in most of Europe: March is down 21% year-on-year to 22,493 registrations, bringing the…
Opel Mokka. Opel sales are up 49% year-on-year in February in Portugal. * See the Top 34 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! * Still no models ranking available for Portugal in 2013, so we'll have to do with a complete brands ranking which is not so bad. But…
2 out of 2 so far in 2013 for the Skoda Octavia... 10 months to go. * See the Top 100 best-selling models and Top 37 All-brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Switzerland are down an ok 5% year-on-year to 22,175 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total…
Renault Twingo * See the Top 40 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to JKLN * After going through overall German sales for February, let's now have a look at what cars German consumers really like (and not rental companies or fleet)... As usual it is a very…
Hyundai i30 * See the Top 274 best-selling models and Top 50 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The German new car market is down a rather painful 11% year-on-year in February to 200,683 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 392,773 units, down 10% on 2012. The Top 5 most…
Renault Clio * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The new car market slows down its fall in Slovenia, down 'only' 8% year-on-year in February to 3,807 registrations, which brings the year-to-date total to 8,190 units, down 10% on 2012. The Top 2 models…
Peugeot 301 * See the Top 150 best-selling models and Top 40 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Things are getting ugly for new car sales in the Czech Republic: down 22% year-on-year in February to 10,562 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 22,633 units, down 14% on 2012.…
Renault Clio IV * NOW UPDATED with the Top 120 models and Top 15 brands! Click on title to see * New car sales in France are down 12% year-on-year in February to 143,366 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 268,164 units, down 13% on 2012. As I predicted in my…
Kia Picanto * See the Top 150 best-selling models and Top 39 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Another month to forget in the Netherlands: after dropping by 32% in January, new car sales are down 27% year-on-year in February to 32,151 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 80,108 units,…