BMW manages the best hold among the Top 15 brands. Picture autofilou.at 10/06 update: Now with Top 20 models. Austria both imposed movement restrictions and stepped out of the COVID-19 crisis earlier than most European countries, and May new car sales figures confirm recovery is now well on the way.…
The Fiat Ducato is up to #2 overall in Germany in May. 11/06 update : Now with Top 285 All Private sales models. With car dealerships reopening as early as April 20, the -49.5% year-on-year drop of German new car sales in May to just 168.148 units can be considered…
Kia sales drop just -25.4% in Canada in May, partly thanks to the new Seltos. Local consultancy DesRosiers Automotive estimates 113.224 new light vehicle found a home in Canada in May, which is a -44.2% year-on-year drop compared to the 202.800 it estimated a year ago for its selection of brands…
Helped by the new Sportback variant, the Audi Q3 breaks into the UK Top 30 in 2020. A full Top 130 UK models ranking is now available for the January-April 2020 period, allowing us a much more detail look at this market. The Range Rover Evoque (#12) finds itself on…
The MG ZS EV is among the 10 best-selling cars in Norway in May. Picture ebil.no In April, Noway boasted the smallest year-on-year drop of any European (-34%). Despite a COVID-19 pandemic essentially under control with 8.488 total cases at the time of writing vs. 7.710 as of April 30, this…
The Vauxhall Corsa is the best-selling vehicle in Scotland and Wales. It's another catastrophic month for UK nations in May, with overall UK sales down -89% year-on-year. The detail by nation is now available thanks to our partnership with SMMT, and shows England (-88.4%) at 18.244 sales and Wales (-88.7%) at…
The Toyota C-HR is only outsold by the Hilux in New Caledonia this month. New Caledonia, a French overseas archipelago located north-east of Australia, is long done with COVID-19 and reopened businesses as early as April 20. As a result the new car market is actually up 8.2% year-on-year in May to…
The Skoda Fabia is the best-selling vehicle in Poland in May. The COVID-19 curve hasn't been flattened in Poland with total infections still on the rise: from 2.311 as of March 31 to 12.877 as of April 30 and 23.786 as of May 31. The Polish new car market does a…
The VW T-Roc is up to a record 2nd place overall in Italy in May. Having been hit by COVID-19 earlier and harder than most other European countries with some cities in quarantine as early as late February, Italy was able to ease its nationwide lockdown a little earlier as…
The Hongqi H9 is part of an avalanche of new local models hitting the Chinese market as it recovers from the coronavirus... According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), May wholesales in China are expected to surge 11.7% year-on-year to 2.14 million units according to preliminary estimates. This…
Skoda leaps onto the European podium for the first time in history and the Octavia is up to a record 2nd place overall. 03/06 update: Now with final figures for the Top 100 models (JATO) 29/05 update: Now with Top 55 All-brands and Top 365 All-models (JATO). Final figures for…
The Kia Niro is the best-seller in the Netherlands so far in 2020. Picture autoverhaal.nl The Netherlands did not completely lock down its economy in March-April and therefore had until now enjoyed relatively smaller new sales drops (-24.6% in March and -53% in April). But now that most of Europe has…
The Lexus NX ranks #10 in Taiwan in May and year-to-date. New car sales in Taiwan are off -11.4% year-on-year in May to 33.528 units, a similar drop as in April (-11.1%) which tilts the year-to-date tally into negative at -0.2% to 168.396. Toyota (-0.8%) only edges down to hold…
The Khazar LD/SD is the best-selling vehicle in Azerbaijan in 2019. Thanks to Ferid Nurizada from Autodata.az we can share with you 2019 new light vehicle sales data for Azerbaijan, a market up 14.5% year-on-year to 10.608 registrations. Both brands and models rankings are completely reshuffled this year. Launched in…
The Renault Clio is #1 in Serbia in April and YTD. After dropping -42.6% in March to 1.701 units (complete Top 10 models below), the Serbia new car market is down another -78% year-on-year in April to 934 sales, pulling the year-to-date volume down -37.1% to 6.827, according to data shared…