Virtually unchanged since 1966 and #9 this month: the UAZ Bukhanka * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Irina * In September the Kazakh new car market doesn't disappoint: it is up another huge 90% year-on-year to 16,196 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to…
GAZ logo This is Part 6 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are moving 940km North East of Omsk to… Tomsk (hard to not confuse the two but I will do my best). And I am happy to…
The Opel Astra is extremely popular in Yekaterinburg. This is part 4 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are now travelling a further 940 km East to Yekaterinburg, where the car landscape is once again very different from the…
Lada Samara in Kazan, Tatarstan Russia - September 2013 This is part 3 of a Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Photo Report here. We are now off to Kazan, 800 km East of Moscow in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. Now that Russia’s…
Lada Largus * See the Top 30 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Irina * Thanks to Irina from www.akab.kz, I can share with you August sales data for Kazakhstan, a market that defies gravity this year: after gaining 71% year-on-year in June and 87% in…
The Lada Largus is almost inside the Kazakh Top 10 this month. * See the Top 28 best-selling models and Top 30 All-brands by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Irina * Thanks to Irina from www.akab.kz, I can share with you for the third time on BSCB sales figures for…
Tajik musicians, Lada Zhiguli and Daewoo Nexia. Picture by marusia, all rights reserved. After Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan, it's time to dust off another Central Asian car market: Tajikistan, the country in the region with the lowest car ownership rate at 35 per 1,000 inhabitants. The vehicle landscape in capital city Dushanbe has radically changed…
Uz-Daewoo Nexia * See the Top 30 best-selling models and Top 30 All-brands by clicking on the title! * For only the second time ever on BestSellingCarsBlog I can share with you a monthly ranking for Kazakhstan, which thanks to Irina from www.akab.kz is now a monthly update on BSCB. We also have 6…
Skoda Rapid * See the Top 150 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Igor * As in neighbour Russia, new car sales in Ukraine hit the brakes in June: down 18% year-on-year to 16,534 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 104,276 units, down 5% on 2012.…
Renault Duster * See the Top 30 best-selling models and Top 30 All-brands by clicking on the title! Thanks Irina * Today I give you extremely rare data coming from Kazakhstan thanks to Irina from www.akab.kz. I hope you enjoy! Kazakhstan confirms it is one of the world's Top 10 engine…
Kia Rio * See the Top 40 best-selling Korean models by clicking on the title! Thanks Austin * The original World Full Year 2012 Top 1000 is here We continue on our exploration of the worldwide best-sellers in 2012 and this time I give you the best-selling Korean models. As…
Kia Rio * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 54 All-brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Russia continue on their excellent run: after a record year in 2012 the market is up a further 2% year-on-year in February to 210,666 registrations, bringing the year-to-date…
Lada Priora * See the Top 20 models and Top 30 brands by clicking on the title! Thanks Juan Felipe * The Kazakh new car market is on fire in 2012: up an out-of-this-world 114% on 2011 to a record 95,313 registrations! Its previous best was 60,513 before the financial crisis…
Renault Duster * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 54 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Building on a record year in 2012, new car sales in Russia are up a further 5% year-on-year in January to 162,077 registrations. Given Russian models data is always based on…
Renault Duster * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 55 All-brands by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * The Russian new car market seems to have exhausted its growth potential (for now): it is up just 1% year-on-year in December to…