Toyota Prado in Cotonou, Benin 2010 * Click on title for more street scenes/videos with Beninese rap music! * Relatively developed market in Benin with the Toyota Hilux and Prado in all likeliness dominating the new car sales. Other successful models include the Honda CR-V, Hyundai Accent, Nissan Frontier, Toyota…
The Spanish car market is down 26% year-on-year in November at 64,515 registrations, but still up 6% year-to-date. No surprises at #1, the Seat Ibiza is still the best selling car in Spain at 3.7% this month. The Nissan Qashqai's strong performance at #2 with 2,093 sales and 3.2% enables…
Ford Ranger in Freetown, Sierra Leone * Click on the title for more street scenes and video! * Only a couple of recent videos of the streets of the country are available, and there are very few new cars in them which makes it very difficult to estimate best car…
Hard times for the Italian car market, down 21% in November with 146,307 registrations. The Year-to-date figure is down 8% at 1,840,511. The Fiat Panda is #1 in Italy for the first time since May with 10,736 sales and 7.3%, ahead of the Punto at 10,066 (6.9%). The Punto's 1st…
The Greek car market is falling further into recession, down 63% year-on-year in November. The Year-to-date figure is down 35%. Traditionally very volatile, the Greek models ranking is led this month by the Opel Corsa at a very impressive 7.4% market share, followed by the Ford Fiesta (5.2%) and the…
Toyota Prado in Lome, Togo * Click on title for more street scenes and video * Very little information to draw on as far as the car market in Togo is concerned. Based on only a few videos and photos of the streets of Lome, my bet is that the…
Very healthy Taiwanese market in November at 32,738 registrations, the 2nd best figure this year. Talk about an uneventful month though: the November Top 12 is exactly the same as the YTD ranking! While the Toyota Corolla stays #1 by far at 11.3%, the Nissan Tiida at #2 (4.9%) is…
* Click on title for a Kigali street video! * The majority of cars in circulation in Kigali are Toyota Corollas of various generations, and the last gen should continue the tradition and lead the models ranking in Rwanda, with the Toyota Hilux and Nissan Hardbody also popular. Street Scene…
* Click on title for street scenes and videos! * The Burkinabe car market is relatively developed, at least in the capital Ouagadougou, with a respectable amount of new cars in the streets. The Toyota Hilux should lead the sales in Burkina Faso, other successful cars being the Suzuki Grand…
JAC Tojoy Still very limited, the new car market in Madagascar is dominated by Asian brands: Toyota is in the lead in Q2 2010 at 11.8% (down from 17.9% in Q4 '09), ahead of Nissan and Mitsubishi. However the big novelty in Q2 is the thunderous arrival of two Chinese…
Another very weak month in Japan with 203,246 registrations, down 31% year-on-year. The Toyota Prius still leads the way by far, but its margin over #2 Honda Fit drops from 7,735 in October to 4,723 this month. The Nissan Juke delivers a best-ever 12th position with 3,789 registrations, whereas the…
October is up an astounding 246% year-on-year in Turkey with 47,859 registrations, the 10 months total being now up 22% at 360,262 units. The Renault Symbol is #1 again this month and stays above 6% market share. Provided it continues at that rate, it will pass the Hyundai Accent in…
* Click on title for street scenes and videos! * Like many other African markets, Malawi is 'owned' by Toyota, which should place the Hilux and Corolla on top of the sales, and the Fortuner, Land Cruiser 70 and Hiace a bit lower. The Nissan Hardbody also seem quite successful.…
* Click on title for Cameroon street scenes! * The car market in Cameroon is still relatively limited with 3,167 new vehicles sold in 2007 (vs. around 75,000 yearly used car sales). Toyota holds close to half the market (40% in 2004 - last official figures) and should place the…
The Mexican car market is experiencing a slow growth this year after the devastating blow of the financial crisis, with +7% over 10 months at 639,883 registrations and +9% in October at 74,094. The Nissan Tsuru is still the king of the Mexican roads with 5,097 sales in October (6.9%)…