The Peugeot 208 is the best-selling vehicle in Portugal in February. As the country was in lockdown for the entire month, new car sales in Portugal implode -59% year-on-year in February to just 8.311 units, the worst fall in Europe for the month so far. This leads to a year-to-date…
Fiat Strada sales are up 80.6% year-on-year in February. New light vehicle sales in Brazil drop -17.8% year-on-year in February to 158.237 units, leading to a year-to-date tally off -14.8% to 320.793. Fiat (+26.2%) continues to be completely oblivious to the market decline and simply scores the largest and only…
The Toyota Yaris is #1 in Finland for the 2nd time in 4 months. Picture is.fi The Finnish new car market stabilises in February at -1.8% year-on-year to 7.974 registrations, bringing the year-to-date volume down -8.3% to 17.229 units. Toyota (+6.9%) goes against the market trend to advance to 17.2%…
Croatian Hyundai Tucson sales are up 270.6% in February. Picture driveteam.hr New car sales in Croatia slow down their fall in February at -4.2% year-on-year to 3.439 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -13% to 6.354. Volkswagen (-0.4%) is stable and dominant at 15.6% share while Skoda (-29.1%) is…
The Toyota Yaris is the first Asian model to top the European charts. Picture quattroruote.it 12/03 update: Now with Top 335 models. 09/03 update: Now with Top 58 brands and Top 100 models. 26/02 update: Now with Top 10 models. Final figures by JATO Dynamics show a European market (EU+EFTA+UK)…
Audi A3 sales are up 39.7% year-on-year. Picture autobild.de New car sales in Germany are off -19% year-on-year in February to 194.349 units as Covid-19 restrictions are extended. This brings the year-to-date tally down -25.1% to 364.103 sales. Brand leader Volkswagen (-9.7%) manages to slice the market decline in two…
The eK is Mitsubishi's best-selling vehicle in Japan. Picture response.jp New vehicle sales in Japan edge up 0.5% year-on-year in February to 432.299 units, bringing the year-to-date tally up 3.3% to 816.741. The Top 3 carmakers outpace the market this month: Toyota (+5.2%), Suzuki (+9%) and Daihatsu (+1.2%) are in…
The Changan CS75 smashes its record volume by almost 10.000 units. With some delay due to Chinese New Year holidays, we can share with you today China wholesales data (ex-factory shipments) for January. The market surges 30% to over 2.5 million units, the best February since 2018, as year-ago volumes…
First Top 25 appearance for the new gen Skoda Octavia. Picture zr.ru New light vehicle sales in Russia stabilise in February at +0.8% to 120.081 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -1.4% to 215.294. Homegrown behemoth Lada (+13.1%) both leads and scores the largest gain in the Top 5…
Turkish Opel sales are up 3-fold year-on-year in January. 09/03 update: Now with accurate full month figures for the Top 25 models. January sales are traditionally weak in Turkey but this year the market starts all guns blazing, up 60.3% to 43.728 units. If the Turkish market spent all of…
The Kia Niro is up to a record 6th place in February. As the country remains in lockdown and showrooms are closed, the UK new car market sinks -35.5% year-on-year to 51.312 units. This is the weakest February result since 1959 (41.471) and it leads to a year-to-date tally off…
The Renault Kiger has landed in India. Picture evoindia.com Indian new car wholesales celebrate a 7th straight month of year-on-year gains in February at +23.1% to 308.593 units, leading to a year-to-date tally up 19.3% to 611.992. Maruti (+8.3%) continues to underperform, leading to a much reduced share year-on-year going from…
The Peugeot 2008 is up 9-fold year-on-year in Sweden in February. Against the European negative trend, new car sales in Sweden lodge another month in positive in February at +5.3% year-on-year to 22.837 units, leading to a year-to-date tally up 12.8% to 43.410. This is in part due to particularly…
The Ford Fiesta is the best-selling vehicle in the Netherlands in February. Picture largus.fr The Dutch new car market is down -26.3% year-on-year in February to 21.862 registrations, leading to a year-to-date tally down -22.7% to 56.933 units. Kia (-31.4%) is up three spots on January to return to the…
BMW is the best-selling carmaker in Belgium for the 5th time in the past year. The Belgian new car market drops -21.9% year-on-year in February to 36.536 registrations, leading to a year-to-date volume down -24.7% to 74.271. BMW (+13.1%) swims upstream to repeat in the pole position at 9.5% share.…