The Nissan X-Trail is up to #4 in Taiwan in August. New light vehicle sales in Taiwan grow 3.5% year-on-year in September at 37,083 units, leading to a year-to-date volume up 12.2% to 349,720. Interestingly, sales of locally-produced vehicles have returned to more tham 50% of the market. Toyota (-16.9%)…
MG sales are up 169.1% year-on-year in August. 01/10 update: Now with JATO Top 90 All brands and Top 458 All models. 28/09 update: Now with JATO Top 25 brands and Top 25 models. According to preliminary figures by ACEA, the European new car market (EU+EFTA+UK) surges 20.7% year-on-year in…
The Hyundai Bayon lodges its first ever Serbian Top 10 finish, landing directly at #2. 2,783 new cars found buyer in Serbia in August according to our Central European partner CE Auto. That's a 12.9% year-on-year improvement leading to a year-to-date tally up 3.2% to 20,809. The Skoda Scala (+208%)…
The Skoda Fabia is the most popular car in Bosnia & Herzegovina in August. Thanks to our local partner CE Auto, we can share with you today data for the Bosnian market. Sales soar 22.4% year-on-year in August to 999 units, an outstanding score given August 2022 was already up 19.3%…
The Toyota Corolla Cross is up to #6 in Moldova in August. Data by our Central European partner CE Auto shows a Moldovan new car market off -1.9% year-on-year in August to 776 registrations, leading to a year-to-date tally up 12.5% to 5,361. The Kia Sportage (+8.3%) continues to dominate the charts but…
The Citroen C3 is the best-selling vehicle in North Macedonia in August. Based on data shared with us by our Eastern European partner CE Auto, the North Macedonian new car market is immobile in August at 347 units, exactly the same amount as August 2022. The year-to-date tally is now up 3.7%…
Whereas we traditionally test drive best-selling vehicles, we'll make an exception this time with the Peugeot 408. Since its launch in July 2022, it has sold just 6,448 units in France, well below its competitor the Renault Arkana. (even though Peugeot calls the 408 a cross berline vs. a SUV…
The Mazda CX-30 is #1 in Colombia for the third consecutive month. New vehicle sales in Colombia freefall once again in August at -39.1% year-on-year to just 14,874 units. The year-to-date volume is now off -30.7% to 118,889. Renault (-54.4%) loses more than half its year-ago tally but reclaims the…
The Fiat Panda is the most popular vehicle in Greece for the 2nd month running. The Greek new car market is up another 19.8% year-on-year in August to 10,368 sales, marking a 7th double-digit year-on-year gain for the year. This is a particularly strong performance given August 2022 was already…
The Skoda Octavia is the best-selling model in Slovakia in August. 7,487 new cars hit Slovak roads in August, a solid 11.8% year-on-year improvement. This leads to a year-to-date tally up 15.3% to 60,945. Brand leader Skoda (+33.2%) almost triples the market growth rate to easily stay on top at…
The Aion Y smashes its monthly volume record in August. Retail sales of the models included in this report edge up just 1.1% year-on-year in August to 1,841,198 units, This a much softer result than wholesales this month (+8.4%) and leads to a year-to-date up 2.9% to 12,749,353. BSCB is…
The VW Santana was the best-selling vehicle in China up until 1999. Check out Full China Historical Data from 1980 to 2022 here. BSCB has now been updated with complete brands and models rankings from 1991 to 2006. That's 16 new articles! The data includes Passenger Cars, Commercial Vehicles and…
The Iran Khodro Tara is now inside the Iranian Top 10. Production of models with data available in Iran is up 5.4% year-on-year over the first 7 months of 2023 to 657,983 units. Peugeot, who doesn't share the detail by model, edges don -2% to just under 200,000 units over…
The Saipa Quick was produced at just under 130,000 units in 2022. Today we can share with you rare production data for Iran covering the Full Year 2022. Peugeot, still not giving any detail by model, sees its production jump up 14.8% to over 352,000 units. The Saipa Tiba for…
Audi A5 sales are up 176.3% year-on-year in August. Sales of new imported sink -17.8% year-on-year in August to 60,602 units. This leads to a year-to-date tally down -8.1% to 469,840. Lexus (-6.7%) resists better than the market and threepeats at #1. Yet this is not enough to snap the YTD…